UMR to assist students displaced by Hurricane Katrina

Posted by on September 1, 2005

UMR will immediately assist students returning home to Missouri who attend colleges that have been closed due to Hurricane Katrina.

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Student Peter Shih joined the UMR Solar Car team after seeing a sign.

Posted by on September 1, 2005

No, Shih didn’t have an overwhelming premonition, and he didn’t find an omen hidden in his breakfast cereal. During his first trip to the UMR campus, however, Shih saw the solar car team’s billboard – a large sign near Interstate 44 – and from that moment on, “I was hooked,” he says.

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UMR offers students legal access to 1.7 million song titles

Posted by on August 31, 2005

Beginning this semester, the University of Missouri-Rolla is offering its students legal access to 1.7 million song titles.

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Sprint CEO Gary Forsee tells grads:embrace change to change the world

Posted by on August 30, 2005

Citing the rapid changes in the telecommunications industry, Sprint chairman and chief executive officer Gary D. Forsee urged the University of Missouri-Rolla’s class of 2005 to change the world by embracing change.

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Reaching for the stars

Posted by on August 30, 2005

It’s become an American cliche, the familiar answer to a question asked of American schoolkids everywhere in the 1960s and ’70s. What do you want to be when you grow up? the teacher would ask. The less inspired among us would recite the usual answers: firefighters, doctors, police officers. But there were always other children […]

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UMR to welcome Dr. John F. Carney III

Posted by on August 29, 2005

The UMR community will welcome Chancellor-designate John F. Carney III to campus with a news conference and ice cream social on Friday, Sept. 2.

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Software donation gives UMR ability to study metals in 3D

Posted by on August 26, 2005

The materials science and engineering department at the University of Missouri-Rolla has received a software donation valued at $1.2 million from Magma Foundry Technologies Inc.

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UMR Fall 2005 Free Film Festival to feature several acclaimed movies

Posted by on August 26, 2005

Beginning with Million Dollar Baby on Tuesday, Aug. 30, this season’s University of Missouri-Rolla Free Film Festival will showcase 13 critically acclaimed feature films and documentaries.

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UMR program links international students with community families

Posted by on August 26, 2005

This fall, the international affairs office at the University of Missouri-Rolla is again sponsoring the International Friends Program to help match international students with individuals and families in the community.

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Public radio KUMR to host annual membership picnic

Posted by on August 26, 2005

University of Missouri-Rolla public radio station KUMR will host its annual membership picnic from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at Lions Club Park on U.S. Highway 63 South in Rolla.

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