Research
UMR in the news: Grayson sheds light on mine accident
The tragic mining accident in West Virginia prompted many regional and national reporters to contact UMR, which operates its own experimental mine and has the only student mine rescue team in the country.
Read More »Air Force employs technology developed at UMR to coat F-15 fleet
The entire fleet of F-15s in the U.S. Air Force is getting primed for future flights, thanks to chrome-free inhibitor technology originally developed at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »UMR study finds gas pipelines could serve as wireless links
Detecting leaks and conducting maintenance in America’s aging network of natural gas pipelines will eventually be a job for wireless robots, according to researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Gravity played role in New Orleans’ bridge failures
Sir Isaac Newton did a number on the Interstate 10 bridges in New Orleans, according to a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla that helped document some of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Read More »UMR researcher sets sights on improving vision
A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher has teamed up with a St. Louis opthamologist to help those who suffer from cataracts by studying the elasticity of lenses.
Read More »UMR professor’s statistical tools help DNA researchers
A researcher at the University of Missouri-Rolla is on the forefront of developing new statistical tools, ones that will help biologists and other scientists sort through massive amounts of data to find disease-causing genes.
Read More »UMR researchers expand website to dissect frogs
Dissecting frogs online is an everyday experience for two researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Is hydrogen a viable fuel alternative?
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and a research investigator at the University of Missouri-Rolla has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study how it might one day replace the gasoline in your vehicle’s tank.
Read More »Composite panels could provide durable alternative, say UMR researchers
Note to the Big, Bad Wolf: Save your breath. A few huffs and puffs won’t budge the new building panels being manufactured at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »UMR petroleum expert says gulf pipelines don’t fare well in big hurricanes
Like some of the levees in New Orleans, much of the oil producing infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t built to withstand a hurricane as powerful as Katrina, according to a petroleum engineering expert at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
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