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First MBA degrees at UMR to be awarded

Posted by on November 20, 2007

Seven graduate students at the University of Missouri-Rolla are about to do something nobody has ever done before: Earn master’s of business administration degrees from UMR. 

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Groenke, Kirby are Homecoming royalty at UMR

Posted by on October 23, 2007

The University of Missouri-Rolla named its 2007 Homecoming Queen and King during halftime ceremonies of UMR’s Oct. 20 football game against Central State (Ohio).         

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Academy honors two outstanding engineering management professionals

Posted by on October 22, 2007

Two engineering management professionals were inducted into the University of Missouri-Rolla’s Academy of Engineering Management on Tuesday, Oct 16.

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UMR Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers inducts six members

Posted by on October 19, 2007

Six University of Missouri-Rolla graduates were inducted into the Academy of Mechanical Aerospace Engineers during the group’s banquet and induction ceremony in Rolla on Thursday, Oct. 19.

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UMR students nominated for Homecoming King

Posted by on October 11, 2007

University of Missouri-Rolla student organizations have nominated 10 students to compete for the title of 2007 Homecoming King.         

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UMR students nominated for Homecoming Queen

Posted by on October 11, 2007

University of Missouri-Rolla student organizations have nominated 11 students to compete for the title of 2007 Homecoming Queen.         

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UMR to present awards during homecoming banquet

Posted by on October 11, 2007

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.         

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Penn State prof named UMR computer science chair

Posted by on October 10, 2007

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.

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UMR biologist named national microbiology scholar-in- residence

Posted by on October 10, 2007

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.

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UMR faculty member celebrates 50 years on the job

Posted by on October 9, 2007

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.         

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