Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, was right. The meaning of life is 42. At least, that’s the story the defending champions of solar car racing are telling and they’re sticking to it. Since 1993, students at the University of Missouri-Rolla have built seven solar-powered cars, each one emblazoned with […]

Dr. Mohammad Qureshi, assistant professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected to serve as the UMR director of the Missouri Transportation Institute (MTI), a statewide consortium involving 11 Missouri colleges and universities that is housed at UMR.

Spring commencement at The University of Missouri Rolla will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 14, in UMR’s Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building, 10th Street and Bishop Avenue in Rolla. UMR graduate Gary Forsee, chair and chief executive officer of Sprint Corp. in Kansas City, Mo., will deliver the commencement address and receive an honorary […]

Five alumni of the University of Missouri-Rolla were inducted into the UMR Academy of Mines and Metallurgy on April 21.

Thirty-one faculty members in the University of Missouri-Rolla School of Extended Learning were recognized for outstanding teaching in distance courses during a ceremony on campus April 27.

Dr. Daniel Stutts, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is one of nine U.S. researchers selected to participate in this year’s Boeing A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellowship program.

Two electrical and computer engineers were inducted into the Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla during the academy’s annual meeting Friday, April 8.