Five students from the University of Missouri-Rolla will travel to Washington, D.C., this month to compete for the Environmental Protection Agency’s first annual People, Prosperity and Planet Award.

Dr. Ralph Flori Jr., assistant dean of engineering for pre-college and undergraduate programs in the School of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been picked to receive the 2005 National Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Dr. Nancy Hubing, associate professor of basic engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will become director of the university’s freshman engineering program, effective July 1.

Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, was right. The meaning of life is 42. At least, that’s the story the defending champions of solar car racing are telling and they’re sticking to it. Since 1993, students at the University of Missouri-Rolla have built seven solar-powered cars, each one emblazoned with […]

Dr. Mohammad Qureshi, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected to serve as the UMR director of the Missouri Transportation Institute (MTI), a statewide consortium involving 11 Missouri colleges and universities that is housed at UMR.

Spring commencement at The University of Missouri Rolla will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in UMR’s Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building, 10th Street and Bishop Avenue in Rolla. UMR graduate Gary Forsee, chair and chief executive officer of Sprint Corp. in Kansas City, Mo., will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary […]

Five alumni of the University of Missouri-Rolla were inducted into the UMR Academy of Mines and Metallurgy on April 21.

Thirty-one faculty members in the University of Missouri-Rolla School of Extended Learning were recognized for outstanding teaching in distance courses during a ceremony on campus April 27.

Dr. Daniel Stutts, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is one of nine U.S. researchers selected to participate in this year’s Boeing A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellowship program.