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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.
Read More »Dee Haemmerlie Montgomery named interim chair of psychology
Dr. Dee Haemmerlie Montgomery, Curators’ Teaching Professor of psychology, has been named interim chair of that department, effective Sept. 1, 2007. She succeeds Dr. Robert Montgomery, who is now the graduate coordinator for the psychology department.
Read More »O’Keefe named director of UMR MRC
Dr. Matthew J. O’Keefe, professor of metallurgical engineering in the materials science and engineering department at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named director of the UMR Graduate Center for Materials Research. His appointment takes effect Sept. 1.
Read More »To do: Get MBA at UMR
Like a lot of modern women, Sharon Massengill and Nancy Corcoran are juggling career goals and family. They manage time, make budgets, pay bills and raise kids. And Massengill and Corcoran are also pursuing master’s degrees in business administration at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Both are members of UMR’s first MBA class and plan to […]
Read More »UMR graduate students take first in satellite conference
Two aerospace engineering graduate students at the University of Missouri-Rolla took first place in the Student Scholarship Competition session at the 21st annual Conference on Small Satellites in Logan, Utah.
Read More »UMR professor elected Fellow of neural network society
Dr. Donald Wunsch, the Mary K. Finley Missouri Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, was recently elected a Fellow of the International Neural Networks Society (INNS). He also accepted the Senior Fellow position and will serve as INNS College of Fellows’ chair.
Read More »Knowledge of nuclear power propels UMR students
The University of Missouri-Rolla has more National Academy for Nuclear Training (NANT) scholars than any other university in the nation.
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