A group of 19 UMR students plan to map and explore areas of South Africa June 9-July 12 as part of the UMR Geology Summer Field Camp.

Dr. Carsten A. Ullrich, assistant professor of physics at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named a Cottrell Scholar by Research Corp. for his efforts to better understand electromagnetic waves in the "uncharted territory" of terahertz frequency.

Matt Foster, a physics Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is one of nearly 60 Ph.D. students across the country chosen to attend a week-long conference of winners of the Nobel Prize in physics.

The legend of Icarus may have a new ending within the next decade, according to a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher helping to develop the world’s first flapping-wing, solar-powered unmanned aircraft.

Nearly 70 years since Orson Welles scared the nation with his "War of the Worlds" radio play, researchers at UMR are now working on a technique that could show whether life on Mars ever existed.

UMR freshman engineering students served up their design projects to three judges on the tennis courts outside the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Center Wednesday, April 21.

Dr. Babak Fahimi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), as one of the 26 recipients of the ONR’s Young Investigator Award in 2004.