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UMR names Parent of the Year during Family Day
The University of Missouri-Rolla announced its Parent of the Year as part of its annual Family Day celebration on Saturday, Oct. 15.
Read More »Awards presented at MSM-UMR Alumni Association Banquet
Eighteen alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Missouri-Rolla were honored during the MSM-UMR Alumni Association’s Awards Banquet Saturday, Oct. 1, at UMR.
Read More »Adding a new dimension
R2D2 is capable of displaying urgent messages from Princess Leia in three dimensions. But holographic technology is also possible in a galaxy no-so-far-away. In fact, Harold (Skip) Garner, NucE’76, has a machine in his Texas laboratory that is capable of generating holographic movies.
Read More »Miner Toni Donovan to the rescue
Toni Donovan, a junior in mining engineering from Homewood, Ill., has to watch her step, just in case she starts a fire, kills a trapped miner or touches electricity.
Read More »Class act: Amanda Nisbett
Annie Oakley, the talented, sharp-shooting attraction of Buffalo Bill’s wild west show, is a legend. Betty Meeks, the chipper owner of a swampy Georgian fishing lodge, is an eccentric old lady. Alma Stossel is a bright-eyed Swiss immigrant in 1880s America, concerned only about her husband’s welfare.
Read More »Student Peter Shih joined the UMR Solar Car team after seeing a sign.
No, Shih didn’t have an overwhelming premonition, and he didn’t find an omen hidden in his breakfast cereal. During his first trip to the UMR campus, however, Shih saw the solar car team’s billboard – a large sign near Interstate 44 – and from that moment on, “I was hooked,” he says.
Read More »Sprint CEO Gary Forsee tells grads:embrace change to change the world
Citing the rapid changes in the telecommunications industry, Sprint chairman and chief executive officer Gary D. Forsee urged the University of Missouri-Rolla’s class of 2005 to change the world by embracing change.
Read More »Reaching for the stars
It’s become an American cliche, the familiar answer to a question asked of American schoolkids everywhere in the 1960s and ’70s. What do you want to be when you grow up? the teacher would ask. The less inspired among us would recite the usual answers: firefighters, doctors, police officers. But there were always other children […]
Read More »Adam Nisbett wins wildlife art contest
UMR freshman Adam Nisbett may study mechanical engineering, but science and technology aren’t his only passions. At 17, this artist has already won the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest, beating out 26,000 other entries with his acrylic painting of two ducks to win “Best in State” for Missouri.
Read More »On the fast track
Hendrick Motorsports is home to racers Jeff Gordon and Terry Labonte; and it’s also home to 1987 graduate Doug Duchardt. Duchardt, who earned a mechanical engineering degree at UMR, was introduced as vice president of Hendrick Motorsports last February. He was previously the director of General Motors Racing. Prior to becoming a director at GM, […]
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