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UMR students nominated for Homecoming King
University of Missouri-Rolla student organizations have nominated 10 students to compete for the title of 2007 Homecoming King.
Read More »UMR students nominated for Homecoming Queen
University of Missouri-Rolla student organizations have nominated 11 students to compete for the title of 2007 Homecoming Queen.
Read More »UMR to present awards during homecoming banquet
Nineteen people with ties to the University of Missouri-Rolla will be honored during the MSM-UMR Alumni Association’s Awards Banquet Saturday, Oct. 20, at UMR. The awards banquet is held in conjunction with UMR’s Homecoming celebration.
Read More »Penn State prof named UMR computer science chair
Dr. Ali Hurson, professor of computer science and engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, has been named chair of the computer science department at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The appointment will take effect Jan. 1, 2008.
Read More »UMR biologist named national microbiology scholar-in- residence
Dr. David J. Westenberg, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected for the American Society for Microbiology Scholars-in-Residence Program. He is one of 13 biology educators in the nation to be selected.
Read More »UMR faculty member celebrates 50 years on the job
One month into his career as a faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Dr. Harry “Hank" Sauer could almost feel the sense of urgency in the air. It was October of 1957, and the Soviet Union had just launched the world’s first satellite, a basketball-sized sphere known as Sputnik I.
Read More »UMR’s Burken receives national teaching award
Dr. Joel Burken, associate professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected to receive the Association of Environmental Engineering Professors (AEESP) Award for Outstanding Teaching of Environmental Engineering and Science. Burken’s former students nominated him for the award.
Read More »UMR’s John McManus named Top Young Historian
University of Missouri-Rolla war historian Dr. John C. McManus has been named to History News Network’s list of Top Young Historians.
Read More »20 new faculty members at UMR this fall
Twenty new faculty members began teaching and research at the University of Missouri-Rolla this fall.
Read More »Schonberg recognized for leadership
The University of Missouri recently announced that Dr. William Schonberg has been named the 2007 recipient of the Manuel T. Pacheco Academic Leadership Award. Schonberg is a professor and chair of the civil, architectural and environmental engineering department at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
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