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UMR class discovers biology facts and fiction through movies
The Swamp Thing can teach moviegoers a lot about biotechnology. Biology 101 students at the University of Missouri-Rolla will learn about that and other creepy creatures in a new course to be offered on campus this spring.
Read More »Films rescheduled
Due to changed release dates, the Film Festival at the University of Missouri-Rolla has had to move the screenings of “A Prairie Home Companion” to Tuesday, Nov. 14, and “An Inconvenient Truth” to Tuesday, Dec. 5. Both films start at 7 p.m. in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall on the UMR campus.
Read More »UMR concrete teams plaster competitors in international contest
Ten civil engineering undergraduate students from the University of Missouri-Rolla brought home nine awards, including four first-place finishes, from the American Concrete Institute’s student design competitions, held Nov. 5 in Denver.
Read More »Solar Miners to race in 2008
Representatives from the University of Missouri-Rolla Solar Car Team say they will participate in a North American solar car race in the summer of 2008.
Read More »Student artists invited to submit work for art contest at UMR
Missouri students in grades three through nine are invited to submit their artwork to the Leila Thompson Flagg Art Contest, an annual competition sponsored by the African American Cultural Recognition Committee at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »School of Engineering recognizes 28 faculty members for teaching
Twenty-eight faculty members from the School of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla were honored for their teaching in 2005-2006 on Thursday, Nov. 2.
Read More »UMR graduate student: Salt could cool cores of advanced nuclear reactors
The water in a conventional nuclear reactor cools the core, but a graduate student at the University of Missouri-Rolla says salt would be a better alternative in some advanced reactor designs.
Read More »UMR computer scientist chosen as visiting scientist in Japan
Dr. Sanjay Madria, associate professor of computer science at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is spending two months in Japan this fall as part of a research exchange program.
Read More »Junior high girls to discover math, science and engineering at UMR
On Friday, Nov. 3, more than 550 seventh- and eighth-grade girls will travel to the University of Missouri-Rolla campus to learn how fun science, mathematics, engineering and technology can be.
Read More »St. Louis artificial intelligence conference set for Nov. 5-8
The latest breakthroughs in “smart” engineering system design techniques – from artificial intelligence to data mining – will be covered during ANNIE 2006, the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering conference to be held Nov. 5-8 at the St. Louis Pavilion Hotel in St. Louis.
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