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Engineering society honors UMR professor for outstanding teaching
Dr. Hank Pernicka, associate professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected to receive the 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section.
Read More »UMR team does well in national big beam contest
The University of Missouri-Rolla recently received notification from the Pre-cast/Pre-stressed Concrete Institute (PCI) that a team of four UMR graduate students has placed second nationally in the report category of the PCI Big Beam contest.
Read More »Switzer wins ACS award
Dr. Jay A. Switzer, Donald L. Castleman Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla and a senior investigator in the UMR Materials Research Center, has won the 2006 American Chemical Society Midwest Award. The award will be presented at the ACS 2006 Midwest Regional Meeting in Quincy, Ill., in October.
Read More »18 new faculty members at UMR this fall
Eighteen new faculty members, including a new provost who also holds a faculty position, began teaching and research at the University of Missouri-Rolla this fall.
Read More »Artists invited to submit work for UMR art show
Missouri artists and members of the University of Missouri-Rolla community are invited to submit their artwork to the fourth annual “Inspired by Writing” art show, which will be hosted by the UMR Writing Center.
Read More »UMR researcher picked for National Academy of Engineering symposia
Dr. Venkata Allada, professor of engineering management and systems engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is one of 60 engineering researchers from Japan and the United States to be selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) twelfth annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
Read More »UMR students work to solve energy problems during MIT Design Summit
Fifty students from 21 universities in 13 countries, including two students from the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently returned to their home campuses after participating in a design summit hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
Read More »Record number of employers expected to recruit at UMR
The future’s so bright at the state’s premier technological research university that students might want to consider wearing shades.
Read More »Women hold key student leadership positions at UMR
Although the male-to-female ratio at the University of Missouri-Rolla is still nearly 3-to-1, women aren’t the minority in student leadership. This fall marks the first time at UMR that all three top Student Council leadership positions are held by women.
Read More »UMR, Missouri State form partnership to offer engineering degrees
Plans to offer two engineering degrees from the University of Missouri-Rolla on the Missouri State University campus in Springfield advanced with the signing today of an agreement that outlines how the two universities will work together to deliver the programs.
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