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UMR Solar House Team is going to Washington, D.C.
The way things are going, the American Dream might soon be to own your own solar house – one that’s capable of charging your own electric car. Students at the University of Missouri-Rolla have built such a house and they’re working on another.
Read More »Electrical engineering society to honor UMR professor
Dr. Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the real-time power and intelligent systems (RTPIS) laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been picked to receive the Young Outstanding Member award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Industry Applications Society (IEEE-IAS).
Read More »UMR to assist students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
UMR will immediately assist students returning home to Missouri who attend colleges that have been closed due to Hurricane Katrina.
Read More »UMR offers students legal access to 1.7 million song titles
Beginning this semester, the University of Missouri-Rolla is offering its students legal access to 1.7 million song titles.
Read More »U.S. News ranks UMR among top engineering schools, No. 52 public university
U.S. News and World Report has again ranked the University of Missouri-Rolla as one of the nation’s top engineering schools in the magazine’s annual guidebook, America’s Best Colleges 2006, which hits newsstands next week. UMR ranks No. 52 among the nation’s top doctoral-granting public universities.
Read More »Spaces remain for UMR’s private pilot ground school
Aspiring fliers can still sign up for a semester-long private pilot ground school at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where they will receive a general introduction to aviation to prepare for pilot exams.
Read More »Enrollment up again at UMR
Missouri’s technological research university is gearing up for fall semester classes to get underway on Monday. Enrollment on the first day of classes at the University of Missouri-Rolla is expected to be 5,429, an increase of 201 students over last year’s figure of 5,228, says Laura Stoll, UMR registrar. The total enrollment is now more […]
Read More »UMR formula car offered on eBay
Always wanted your own “Indy-style” racing car capable of going from zero to 60 mph in a little more than three seconds? Well, you can bid on the formula car built at the University of Missouri-Rolla for the 2002 Formula SAE competition on eBay.
Read More »City dedicates tree in honor of retiring chancellor
The City of Rolla honored retiring UMR Chancellor Gary Thomas "for his contributions to improving UMR and Rolla" with a red maple tree on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2005.
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