UMR, Rolla community to welcome solar racers home
The general public is invited to welcome the University of Missouri-Rolla Solar Car Team home during a celebration planned for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, outside of the Havener Center on campus.
Read More »UMR solar car completes 2,500-mile journey UMR solar car completes 2,500-mile journey
In a bid to defend its solar car racing championship, the University of Missouri-Rolla Solar Car Team has finished fourth in the 2005 North American Solar Challenge. UMR’s Solar Miner V arrived in Calgary, Alberta, Wednesday, completing a 10-day, 2,500-mile journey that started July 17 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »UMR student to use grant to help solve energy problems
Swakshar Ray of Calcutta, India, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering and a member of the Real-Time Power and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla, was one of five students internationally picked to receive a $3,000 grant from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computational Intelligence Society.
Read More »Microfossil hunters to meet in St. Louis
Led by a University of Missouri-Rolla scientist, a group of fossil hunters will converge on St. Louis in September to discuss new developments in the field of palynology, a branch of paleontology that is focused on microscopic evidence dating back a billion years.
Read More »UMR researcher pilots new fly ash study
A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher is leading an effort to reduce the amount of fly ash making its way into the state’s landfills.
Read More »UMR wins excellence award for improvement in fund-raising
The University of Missouri-Rolla is a winner of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) 2005 CASE/Wealth ID Award for Educational Fund Raising. The award is presented for overall improvement in campus fund-raising. UMR was recognized as one of the top five most improved fund-raising programs in the nation across all research doctoral […]
Read More »UMR professor to advise Navy on global terrorism
A University of Missouri-Rolla professor has been elected to a National Academy of Science panel that will assess the U.S. Department of Navy’s role in the global war on terror.
Read More »UMR students ready to depart for Houston flight
As NASA prepares the Discovery shuttle for blast-off, a group of University of Missouri-Rolla students are prepping themselves for their own flight mission set for July 21-30 in Houston. The eight-member team is one of 20 NASA has selected from more than 100 proposals to conduct reduced-gravity experiments this summer aboard the agency’s famous “Weightless […]
Read More »Seminar to show how technology moves from universities to industries
The Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach (CEO) at the University of Missouri-Rolla will kick-off a three-part series on the transfer of viable technologies from universities to industries with a seminar on Wednesday, August 10.
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