UMR will receive more than $370,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to fund three Ph.D. fellowships to conduct research in energy technology linked with public policy making.

The latest advance toward understanding the electron transport mechanism of high-temperature superconductors, as reported in the June 3 issue of the British journal Nature, relies on materials provided by Dr. Fatih Dogan, a professor of ceramic engineering at UMR.

A University of Missouri-Rolla graduate student will spend his summer and most of next year assisting scientists at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama in developing methods to perform microwave nondestructive evaluation (NDE) on the space shuttle’s external tank insulating foam and other NASA applications. A large piece of insulating foam broke off […]

A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher’s investigation into how proteins adhere to surfaces may lead the elimination of surface-induced thrombus formation, a phenomenon known to cause blood clots in artificial arteries, valves and veins.