New UMR study details threats in New Madrid seismic zone
A major earthquake in the New Madrid seismic zone could affect the movement of emergency vehicles and other first response teams into and out of stricken areas if steps aren’t taken immediately to prepare bridges and other transportation infrastructures, says a team of University of Missouri-Rolla researchers.
Read More »UMR welcomes Chancellor Carney
Dr. John F. Carney III was formally introduced as UMR’s chancellor Friday, Sept. 2, during a news conference held in the Havener Center.
Read More »Ozark author Donald Harington to read from his latest novel at UMR Sept. 9
Author Donald Harington, recognized by the Boston Globe as “one of America’s great contemporary authors,” will read from his latest novel, The Pitcher Shower, on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus on Friday, Sept. 9.
Read More »UMR Solar House Team is going to Washington, D.C.
The way things are going, the American Dream might soon be to own your own solar house – one that’s capable of charging your own electric car. Students at the University of Missouri-Rolla have built such a house and they’re working on another.
Read More »Electrical engineering society to honor UMR professor
Dr. Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of the real-time power and intelligent systems (RTPIS) laboratory at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been picked to receive the Young Outstanding Member award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Industry Applications Society (IEEE-IAS).
Read More »UMR to assist students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
UMR will immediately assist students returning home to Missouri who attend colleges that have been closed due to Hurricane Katrina.
Read More »Student Peter Shih joined the UMR Solar Car team after seeing a sign.
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.
Read More »UMR offers students legal access to 1.7 million song titles
Beginning this semester, the University of Missouri-Rolla is offering its students legal access to 1.7 million song titles.
Read More »Sprint CEO Gary Forsee tells grads:embrace change to change the world
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.
Read More »Reaching for the stars
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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