The University of Missouri-Rolla will soon offer a new bachelor of science degree program in interdisciplinary engineering to provide more flexibility to students interested in working in new and emerging fields. The degree will be the first of its kind in Missouri and UMR will become one of the few colleges and universities in the […]

Children ages 10 to 13 from throughout Missouri can still sign up for a three-day Aerospace Camp at the University of Missouri-Rolla, where they will launch rockets, build hot air balloons, visit with former astronaut Col. Tom Akers and more.

Dr. Steven L. Grant, a telecommunications researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., and a native of Belton, Mo., was recently named the first Roy A. Wilkens Missouri Telecommunications Professor at UMR.

The University of Missouri-Rolla has accepted an invitation to become a member of the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference for the 2005-06 season, thus ending an affiliation with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association that dates back to 1935.

For the second time in 2004, a radio-controlled airplane designed by UMR students carried the most weight in an international student-design competition, and the team finished second overall in the event.