Engineering students at UMR will enter their formula-style race car at a global competition May 19-23 in Michigan.

Engineering students from UMR will go for a "threepeat" win to keep the national title at the annual West Coast Human-Powered Vehicle Competition (HPVC) April 24-25 in Corvallis, Ore.

Dr. Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe, associate professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Missouri-Rolla, was named the 2004 Woman of the Year at UMR Wednesday, April 14, during the campus’ annual Woman of the Year luncheon.

Two mine rescue teams from UMR — the only university in the United States to have mine rescue teams — will compete against professional rescuers in the Southern Region Mine Rescue Contest April 29-May 1 in New Iberia, La.

Ten undergraduate students at the University of Missouri-Rolla are learning how to balance humanity’s impact on the environment with the world’s growing engineering needs as part of a new degree program that began last fall. The students are enrolled in the state’s first environmental engineering degree program, one of the few available in the Midwest.