ME Annex is falling down
Constructed a year before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight, the UMR Mechanical Engineering Annex is being razed to make way for the first phase of a $27.6 million expansion project and you can watch its progress.
Read More »UMR to host International Students Day March 12
Sample international delicacies and be entertained by cultural performances from countries around the world as part of International Students Day Sunday, March 12, at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »UMR autoclave installed, ready for business
With its autoclave now installed, the University of Missouri-Rolla is ready to help aerospace businesses produce intricate prototypes and sub-scale, but complex, composite parts.
Read More »UMR to host Visitors’ Night at observatory March 3
The University of Missouri-Rolla physics department will host a Visitors’ Night at UMR’s astronomical observatory at 8 p.m. Friday, March 3. The public is invited to view the moon, Mars and Saturn through the observatory’s 16-inch telescope.
Read More »Minority students to get taste of UMR this weekend
Sixty two minority high school students from across Missouri and one from Texas will spend this weekend at the University of Missouri-Rolla learning about college life and the fields of engineering, math and science.
Read More »KUMR spring membership drive starts March 4
Public radio station KUMR at the University of Missouri-Rolla begins its Spring Membership Drive at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 4, with its popular bluegrass program, “Bluegrass for a Saturday Night.” The drive runs through the following Saturday, March 11.
Read More »UMR Miner swimmers offer swimming lessons to area kids
The University of Missouri-Rolla Miner swimming team will offer swimming lessons for area children this spring.
Read More »Campus Performing Arts Series brings Disney’s Belle to UMR stage
The 2005-2006 season of the University of Missouri-Rolla Campus Performing Arts Series continues in March with a performance of “From Belle to Broadway” presented by Paige O’Hara and Michael Piontek.
Read More »UMR joins national ‘cybersystem’ for earthquake engineering research
University of Missouri-Rolla researchers will soon connect in cyberspace with investigators around the world to conduct and observe earthquake experiments.
Read More »UMR researcher receives NSF CAREER grant
Dr. Kai-Tak Wan, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received a CAREER grant from the Nano and Bio Mechanics program of the National Science Foundation for his research into the mechanical characterization of eye lenses and single cell characterization.
Read More »