Dr. Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UMR recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support his work on improving the electric power grid.

Dr. Abdeldjelil "D.J." Belarbi, professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will receive the 2004 National James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2004 Chi Epsilon Excellence in Teaching Award for the Central District during the National Chi Epsilon Conclave Awards Banquet at Purdue University on March 6.

Dr. R. Larry Grayson, chair and professor of mining engineering at UMR, recently received the Ivan B. Rahn Education Award and the Coal and Energy Division Distinguished Service Award from The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME).

Students at UMR received awards and participated in the International Society of Explosives Engineers conference held Feb. 1-4 in New Orleans.

A student production of Irving Berlin’s "Annie Get Your Gun" opens Thursday, March 4, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall on UMR’s campus.

Two seniors in mining engineering at UMR recently received the W.R. "Pat" Broaddus Aggregate Industry Scholarship.

This summer, faculty members from the University of Missouri-Rolla will help teachers in nine rural Missouri schools improve their science instruction through a workshop to enhance the teachers’ knowledge of and techniques in teaching matter, energy and living systems.

The St. Pat’s Celebration Committee at UMR announced that select businesses in Rolla are selling St. Pat’s sweatshirts and novelty items for the 96th annual St. Pat’s Celebration through Saturday, March 13.

Through a partnership with a local bank, undergraduate students in a new capstone business course at the University of Missouri-Rolla are getting some real-world lessons in entrepreneurship by forming two companies, developing a product to sell and writing a business plan. Soon they will present those plans to a loan board to secure funding for […]

The commanding general of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., is the speaker for this year’s Engineers Week Banquet to be held Friday, Feb. 27, at the Audie Murphy Club in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.