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UMR performing arts series to feature eight shows during the upcoming season
The 2006-2007 season of the University of Missouri-Rolla Campus Performing Arts Series will feature eight professional productions. All performances in the series will be held at Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall on the UMR campus, 10th and Main streets in Rolla.
Read More »UMR students to help Bolivians increase water supply
A team from the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) chapter at the University of Missouri-Rolla will journey into Bolivia’s rainforests next month on a fact-finding mission.
Read More »Donors increase endowments, establish faculty chairs
The University of Missouri-Rolla has received two new gifts from major donors to endow chairs in the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department.
Read More »UMR gets funding for 2007 solar house
The solar house team at the University of Missouri-Rolla is one of 20 teams that have been selected to receive $100,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to support the construction of new houses for the 2007 Solar Decathlon.
Read More »Two interim deans appointed at UMR
Two department chairs at the University of Missouri-Rolla have been named interim deans.
Read More »Laudon named chair of geological sciences and engineering department
Dr. Robert Laudon, professor of geological sciences and engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named chair of UMR’s department of geological sciences and engineering. Laudon replaces Dr. Jeffrey Cawlfield, who was recently named director of freshman engineering at UMR.
Read More »Incoming freshmen to participate in UMR’s version of ‘X Games’
New freshmen will spend a good part of their first week at the University of Missouri-Rolla designing and racing remote-controlled vehicles through campus as part of Project X, UMR’s version of the X Games.
Read More »UMR student to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference
Joshua Monroe, a senior in computer science at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received a scholarship worth $1,595 from Apple Computer Inc. to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) August 7-11 in San Francisco.
Read More »Fisher named dean of management and information systems at UMR
Dr. Caroline Fisher has been appointed dean of the School of Management and Information Systems at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Fisher replaces Dr. Arlan DeKock, who is retiring from UMR.
Read More »UMR creates scholar program with University of Naples Federico II
Six graduate students from the University of Naples Federico II, founded in 1224 in Naples, Italy, are conducting research this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla as part of a new scholar program between the two universities.
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