Research
Department of Energy supports plan to make mining more efficient
University of Missouri-Rolla researchers are developing ways to mine metals more efficiently, and the United States government has taken notice.
Read More »UMR students study biodiversity in San Salvador
A group of biological sciences students from the University of Missouri-Rolla spent a week in the Bahamas in May 2005 studying tropical marine biodiversity.
Read More »UMR develops robotics for nuclear reactor
Students at the University of Missouri-Rolla are programming a robotic arm to retrieve a rod that controls fission reactions at the UMR Nuclear Reactor.
Read More »UMR students reap rewards from research
Twenty-four students at the University of Missouri-Rolla claimed a share of $12,000 in prize money during the campus’ first-annual "Undergraduate Research Day," which was held at UMR April 13.
Read More »UMR students tout new future for soybeans
If two University of Missouri-Rolla chemistry students have their way, soybeans will one day line Missouri’s highways — literally.
Read More »UMR researchers to study diamond coating process in $3 million project
A joint team from the University of Missouri-Rolla and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will receive $3 million over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the science behind a diamond coating technique.
Read More »UMR students aim high in welding experiment
A group of University of Missouri-Rolla students are looking to the skies for answers on how to improve construction in space. The eight-member team is one of 50 NASA has selected to conduct reduced-gravity experiments this summer.
Read More »UMR researcher receives $400,000 from National Science Foundation
Dr. Jee-Ching Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support his work on modeling nanoparticle self-assembly.
Read More »UMR researcher works to clear air on soot formation
As five Midwestern states add soot alerts to their warning system for dirty air, one University of Missouri-Rolla researcher is trying to get to the root of the soot problem.
Read More »Far out: UMR scientist’s views on solar system gain credibility
For decades, Dr. Oliver Manuel, a professor of nuclear chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been telling anyone who will listen that the accepted theory on the sun’s origin that it was created slowly along with the planets in a huge collapsing cloud of hydrogen and helium is seriously flawed.
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