Two University of Missouri-Rolla students received awards at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ (SHPE) Midwestern Expo, held Nov. 6-9 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Two seniors in metallurgical engineering at UMR recently received Outstanding Scholar Awards at the ASM International Materials Solutions Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa.

A University of Missouri-Rolla electrical engineering student and the director UMR’s Minority Engineering and Science Program (MEP) were honored at the National Society of Black Engineers Region V Fall Conference, held Oct. 31-Nov.2 in St. Louis.

Emily A. Rueck of Rolla, Mo., a teaching assistant in UMR’s mathematics and statistics department, was named the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for 2003 by the University of Missouri-Rolla Parents’ Association.

Sheila Agee of St. Joseph, Mo., the 2003 Parent of the Year at UMR, provides a "pillar of support" to her son, R.J. Agee, a senior in engineering management at UMR, and others during hard times.

A new textbook by the advisor to the University of Missouri-Rolla’s championship Solar Car Team may help level the playing field in solar car races by teaching students to focus on what matters, such as making their cars energy efficient.

Members of the University of Missouri-Rolla marching band will present Miner Mania, a stage show featuring the highlights of the 2003 marching band season, on Thursday, Nov. 13.

Dr. Anne Goodwyn Jones, an expert in women writers of the American South, has been named the fourth Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Missouri-Rolla. She will begin her tenure in UMR’s English department in January 2004.

Dr. G.K. Venayagamoorthy, assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at UMR, and two colleagues recently received a second-place paper award from the Industrial Automation and Control Committee (IACC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Industry Applications Society for their research into the use of advanced intelligent techniques to operate […]

Two UMR Ph.D. students each received research awards from the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) during a conference held Oct. 12-15 in Corning, N.Y.