Researcher to discuss top five environmental problems
A member of the National Academy of Engineering will discuss this century’s top five environmental challenges and the technological, societal and cultural advances needed to address those issues Friday, Jan. 28, on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus.
Read More »UMR offers first explosives engineering minor
As the spring semester started last week, the University of Missouri-Rolla became the first university in the United States to offer a minor in explosives engineering. Also new this semester, UMR is offering a demolitions course that is the first of its kind in the nation.
Read More »UMR’s Eta Kappa Nu chapter receives national honor
Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the electrical and computer engineering honor society at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received an honorable mention in the 2003-04 Outstanding Chapter Activities program. UMR’s chapter has received the honor for four of the past five years.
Read More »Mariesa Crow named dean of UMR School of Materials, Energy and Earth Resources
Dr. Mariesa Crow, the transition dean of the University of Missouri-Rolla School of Materials, Energy and Earth Resources (SoMEER) since October 2003, was named dean of the school effective Jan. 1.
Read More »UMR enrollment is 4,699
Enrollment on the first day of classes at the University of Missouri-Rolla is expected to be 4,699, slightly up from last year’s first-day enrollment, says Laura Stoll, UMR registrar.
Read More »Crackdown on file-sharing targets college campuses
As part of its campaign to deter online music theft, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is again targeting college and university campuses, where the incidence of illegal distribution of copyrighted music is high.
Read More »UMR researchers ‘play tag’ in unique auto-id testbed
As Wal-Mart’s top 100 suppliers scurry to get radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on their pallets in time to meet a January 2005 deadline, two researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are joining forces to figure out how to use data from those tags in the most efficient way.
Read More »UMR network security interest group performs wireless security audit
Wireless networks are spreading into many homes in America; however, many of these networks are insecure. A group of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla recently conducted an audit of the area’s wireless networks to evaluate the community’s wireless usage and to educate those with insecure networks.
Read More »UMR Havener Center to host student grand opening Jan. 11-13
The Havener Center, the new University of Missouri-Rolla student and campus center, will welcome UMR students back to campus in grand style this January.
Read More »UMR professor receives Fulbright Scholar award
Dr. Halvard E. Nystrom, associate professor of engineering management at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research for a semester at the Modern College of Business and Science in Muscat, Oman, starting in January 2005.
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