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Caterpillar Foundation donates $850,000 to UMR

Posted by on December 6, 2005

The Caterpillar Foundation, based in Peoria, Ill., has pledged $850,000 over five years to support several engineering education programs and initiatives, the university announced today.

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UMR recognizes five faculty for teaching excellence

Posted by on December 5, 2005

The University of Missouri-Rolla recently recognized five faculty for their consistent demonstration of quality instruction in the classroom.

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State recertifies UMR’s teacher education program

Posted by on December 2, 2005

The University of Missouri-Rolla’s Teacher Education Program will continue to prepare students to become professional educators, thanks to a recent decision by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

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Prohibition literature portrayed a defiant nation, says UMR author

Posted by on November 29, 2005

A new book by an English professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla explores the impact of National Prohibition on American literature.                  

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UMR scholar receives award from electrical engineering society

Posted by on November 28, 2005

Dr. Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMR, received the ABB PowerTech Transformers Young Achiever’s Award 2005 from the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.

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UMR library brings 19th-century news to the web

Posted by on November 18, 2005

Newspapers from as far back as the Civil War era have gone digital, thanks to a $12,028 grant to the University of Missouri-Rolla’s Curtis Laws Wilson Library.

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UMR faculty member publishes biography on Civil War general

Posted by on November 18, 2005

A faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla has written the first biography of Gen. Thomas Sweeny, an important figure in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Mo.

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ASEM honors engineering management faculty, alumni

Posted by on November 15, 2005

Three faculty members from UMR’s engineering management and systems engineering department and two recent Ph.D. recipients from that department were honored by the American Society of Engineering Management during ASEM’s annual conference Oct. 26-29 in Virginia Beach, Va.

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UMR student recognized for defect detection research

Posted by on November 15, 2005

Harsha J. Phukan of Rolla, Mo., a graduate student in manufacturing engineering, received the Best Student Poster Paper award from the 2005 American Society for Nondestructive Testing conference in Columbus, Ohio, for his research into detecting defects in friction-stir welds.

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School of Engineering recognizes 30 faculty members for teaching

Posted by on November 14, 2005

Thirty faculty members from the School of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla were honored for their teaching in 2004-2005 on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

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