More than 140 engineers from seven countries are expected to discuss electrical power issues at the 35th North American Power Symposium, to be held Oct. 20-21 at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Old-time fiddle music and lectures on such topics as historic tourism in the Ozarks and gender issues in Ozarks literature are among the events planned in coming months to promote Ozarks culture at the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Twenty alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the UMR were honored during the MSM-UMR Alumni Association’s Awards Banquet Saturday, Oct. 11, at UMR.

Michael Sears of Lake Forest, Ill., executive vice president and chief financial officer of The Boeing Co. and a University of Missouri-Rolla engineering management graduate, will receive the "Engineering Manager of the Year" award at the national conference of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM), to be held Oct. 15-18 in St. Louis.

The University of Missouri-Rolla’s new Missouri Local Transportation Resource Center will host "MINK3 – The Conference for County Engineers," Oct. 14-15 at the St. Joseph Historic District Hotel in St. Joseph, Mo.

As any Internet surfer knows, a keyword search via Google or Yahoo doesn’t always yield the desired results. A new book co-authored by a University of Missouri-Rolla computer scientist outlines a method of dealing with Internet data that would improve and simplify web searches.

10SharesTraditional views of 17th century English planters in Barbados paint them as reckless fortune-seekers who failed to create a viable society in the tropics. But University of Missouri-Rolla historian Dr. Larry Gragg challenges that widely accepted view in his new book, Englishmen Transplanted: The English Colonization of Barbados 1627-1660. The book will be published this […]

Striking similarities in the philosophical views of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and French writer Victor Hugo are examined in a new book by a University of Missouri-Rolla lecturer. The book examines a connection that had previously gone unnoticed in literary criticism.

The UMR and Rolla Technical Institute Solar House Team, which survived the 10 tests of the 2002 Solar Decathlon, is about to face the ultimate test — occupancy. Allison Arnn of De Soto, Mo., a senior in engineering management and the team’s project manager, plans to move into the house Sept. 30 and live there […]