Frances Haemmerlie Montgomery named UMR’s Woman of the Year

Posted by on April 19, 2005

Dr. Frances Haemmerlie Montgomery, Curators’ Teaching Professor of psychology and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Rolla, was named the 2005 Woman of the Year at UMR Tuesday, April 19, during the campus’ annual Woman of the Year luncheon.

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UMR to host summer engineering course for high school students

Posted by on April 18, 2005

A course designed to introduce high school sophomores and juniors to engineering disciplines will be held this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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SoMEER announces teaching awards

Posted by on April 18, 2005

Twenty-one faculty members in The University of Missouri-Rolla School of Materials, Energy and Earth Resources (SoMEER) received teaching awards during a ceremony on campus April 14.

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UMR students tout new future for soybeans

Posted by on April 15, 2005

If two University of Missouri-Rolla chemistry students have their way, soybeans will one day line Missouri’s highways — literally.

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Missouri high school students to participate in academic challenge at UMR

Posted by on April 14, 2005

Missouri’s brightest high school students will compete in the state finals of the annual Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering (WYSE) Academic Challenge at the University of Missouri-Rolla April 20.

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UMR researchers to study diamond coating process in $3 million project

Posted by on April 14, 2005

A joint team from the University of Missouri-Rolla and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will receive $3 million over the next three years from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the science behind a diamond coating technique.

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Undergraduate Research Day is April 13

Posted by on April 12, 2005

University of Missouri-Rolla Chancellor Gary Thomas has proclaimed April 13 "Undergraduate Research Day" at UMR. Students campuswide will participate in the first annual UMR Undergraduate Research Conference Wednesday, April 13, at the Havener Center on campus.

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Desert expert to speak at UMR Sigma Xi awards banquet

Posted by on April 12, 2005

Dr. Farouk El-Baz, the Boston researcher who is credited with helping to alleviate ground water shortages in arid lands such as Somalia and Oman, is the keynote speaker for the annual Sigma Xi awards banquet at the University of Missouri-Rolla on Thursday, April 28.

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UMR to host summer materials camp for high school students

Posted by on April 11, 2005

High school juniors and seniors from around the country can get a behind-the-scenes look at the manufacture and application of metallic and ceramic materials in a free summer camp to be held this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

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UMR students aim high in welding experiment

Posted by on April 8, 2005

A group of University of Missouri-Rolla students are looking to the skies for answers on how to improve construction in space. The eight-member team is one of 50 NASA has selected to conduct reduced-gravity experiments this summer.

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