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.

Move over, hybrids. Two University of Missouri-Rolla researchers are working on a way to transform current automobiles into leaner, greener vehicles.

How lead and other metals travel through the rivers of southeast Missouri’s lead and zinc mining districts is the subject of a study by two UMR students who will present their findings at a Geological Society of America meeting in St. Louis.

UMR students are building a robotic race car in hopes of winning a competition sponsored by the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE).

A UMR faculty member and Ph.D. student will present research papers at the joint meeting of the Northeastern and Southeastern Sections of the Geological Society of America March 25-27 at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner in Washington, D.C.