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Writing center to host art show

Posted by on September 5, 2002

Writing is the theme of an art show to be hosted by the UMR Writing Center this fall. All Missouri artists, as well as members of the UMR community, are invited to submit their work.

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Alumni enter UMR academies

Posted by on August 15, 2002

Twenty-four alumni were inducted into the UMR Academy of Civil Engineers, the UMR Academy of Chemical Engineering, the UMR Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the UMR Academy of Mines and Metallurgy at the groups’ annual meetings, held on campus this past spring.

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Student teams compete

Posted by on August 15, 2002

Putting their mettle to the pedal – Students win human-powered vehicle competition.

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Getting smart in the battlefield

Posted by on August 15, 2002

When the Army wanted to update its 50-year-old process for identifying hazards in the battlefield, it turned to UMR for help.

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NRC certifies three students to operate reactor

Posted by on August 15, 2002

Nuclear engineering students Dan Estel, Craig Heimericks and Jeremy Gorelick last spring became the first undergraduate students in a new training program to become certified as nuclear reactor operators.

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New institute deals with natural hazards

Posted by on August 15, 2002

UMR experts in earthquakes, floods and other natural hazards joined together last February to create the UMR Natural Hazards Mitigation Institute, a vehicle for promoting research into natural hazards and raising public awareness.

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Going… going… gone

Posted by on August 15, 2002

UMR researchers demonstrated two very different technologies — one for blowing up bridges, the other for holding them together — with the 98-year-old Sappington Bridge, located near Sullivan, Mo.

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Washing away land mines

Posted by on August 15, 2002

Ridding the world of land mines isn’t child’s play, but UMR researcher David Summers has learned a thing or two about neutralizing the deadly explosives from, of all things, a child’s plastic water pistol.

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Dizzy Dean: the "school marms’" nemesis

Posted by on August 15, 2002

St. Louis Cardinals pitching great-turned-sports announcer Dizzy Dean was well known in Missouri for his broadcasting style, which was full of mangled grammar and malapropisms.

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Putting a new face on security

Posted by on August 15, 2002

At UMR’s nuclear reactor, faculty and staff are using their faces instead of keys to gain access to secured areas. The face-recognition technology being used at the UMR reactor is an evaluation in security that could help aid the nation’s security concerns, says Dr. Akira Tokuhiro, assistant professor of nuclear engineering and director of the […]

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