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 »Mural depicting UMR’s history to be unveiled Sept. 30
Jack Guth, a 1950 graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla, will unveil his “MSM-UMR 20th Century” mural at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, at the Havener Center on the UMR campus. The event is part of UMR’s Homecoming weekend ceremonies.
Read More »Fisher is UMR’s new business administration chair
The business administration department at the University of Missouri-Rolla has a new chair. Dr. Caroline Fisher, chair and professor of business administration as of August, replaces Dr. Ray Kluczny, now a professor emeritus of business administration at UMR. Fisher has also assumed the position of associate dean of the UMR School of Management and Information […]
Read More »Outreach exhibit on Lewis and Clark coming to UMR library
The University of Missouri–Rolla’s Curtis Laws Wilson Library will soon host a traveling panel exhibition commemorating the 1804 expedition of Capt. Meriwether Lewis and Capt. William Clark. The exhibition celebrates the historic journey of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery from St. Louis to the Pacific, highlighting Missouri’s role in the journey.
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.
Read More »Ercal to serve as interim chair of computer science at UMR
Dr. Fikret Ercal, professor and assistant chair of computer science at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been named interim chair of the UMR computer science department. He will replace Dr. Daniel St. Clair, who is currently on leave from UMR. Ercal will serve in the position for approximately one year while the department conducts a […]
Read More »Whitefield named chair of chemistry at UMR
Dr. Phil Whitefield, professor of chemistry at the University of Missouri-Rolla and director of the UMR Center of Excellence for Aerospace Particulate Research, has been named chair of the chemistry department. The appointment took effect Sept. 1.
Read More »Class act: Amanda Nisbett
Annie Oakley, the talented, sharp-shooting attraction of Buffalo Bill’s wild west show, is a legend. Betty Meeks, the chipper owner of a swampy Georgian fishing lodge, is an eccentric old lady. Alma Stossel is a bright-eyed Swiss immigrant in 1880s America, concerned only about her husband’s welfare.
Read More »UMR Observatory to host three Visitors’ Nights this semester
The University of Missouri-Rolla physics department will host three Visitors’ Night during the fall semester at UMR’s astronomical observatory. Weather permitting, the public is invited to view the skies through the observatory’s 16-inch telescope.
Read More »UMR Arts series to open with Broadway musical ‘CATS’
Individual tickets go on sale Monday, Sept. 12, for the 2005-2006 season of the University of Missouri-Rolla Campus Performing Arts Series. The season opens with a performance of the Broadway musical CATS.
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