Engineering society to honor UMR professor for outstanding teaching
Dr. Ralph Flori Jr., assistant dean of engineering for pre-college and undergraduate programs in the School of Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been picked to receive the 2005 National Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Read More »Havener Center dedication held April 23 at UMR
A public ceremony to unveil the Havener Center, the new University of Missouri-Rolla student and campus center, was held Saturday, April 23, in the building’s plaza. A reception and tours of the building followed the dedication, which included remarks by Gary Havener, the 1962 UMR mathematics graduate whose $5 million gift to UMR helped make […]
Read More »Nancy Hubing named director of freshman engineering at UMR
Dr. Nancy Hubing, associate professor of basic engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will become director of the university’s freshman engineering program, effective July 1.
Read More »UMR develops robotics for nuclear reactor
Students at the University of Missouri-Rolla are programming a robotic arm to retrieve a rod that controls fission reactions at the UMR Nuclear Reactor.
Read More »UMR team says secret to solar success is ’42’
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 […]
Read More »Mohammad Qureshi named UMR director of the Missouri Transportation Institute
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.
Read More »UMR to host summer camp for high school girls
High school girls can discover opportunities in the fields of math, engineering and science in a week-long camp to be held this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Sprint CEO to deliver commencement address
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 […]
Read More »UMR to host summer robotics camp
Students between the ages of 12 and 14 can take a behind-the-scenes look at robots in a summer camp to be held this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Academy of Mines and Metallurgy inducts 5
Five alumni of the University of Missouri-Rolla were inducted into the UMR Academy of Mines and Metallurgy on April 21.
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