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UMR student to present nuclear waste research at conference in Stockholm
When it comes to the daunting task of storing large quantities of nuclear waste in the United States, there are a lot of major stakeholders. Scott Spychala, a nuclear engineering major at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is trying to help those stakeholders work together more efficiently.
Read More »UMR receives Kauffman Foundation grant for pre-engineering education
The University of Missouri-Rolla has received a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City to help improve pre-college engineering education.
Read More »Old Timers Club recognizes recent mining engineering grad
The Old Timers Club, a group of leaders in the mining industry, has awarded a 2006 Old Timers Award to a recent graduate of the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Engineering professor to teach at U.S. Air Force Academy
Dr. Robert Stone, associate professor of interdisciplinary engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, has been selected as a visiting professor in the engineering mechanics department at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Read More »Detonators and Dynamite! UMR’s Explosives Camp is back
Where else can high school students learn how to blow stuff up in a supervised environment?
Read More »Faculty members recognized for medical research
The University of Missouri-Rolla doesn’t have a medical school, but it does have faculty members who are conducting important medical research. Two such researchers, Dr. Chang-Soo Kim and Dr. Mohamed N. Rahaman, were recently selected to receive the John W. Claypool Award for Medical Research.
Read More »Two UMR students win $2,000 scholarships
Two seniors in aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla recently received Record Scholarships from Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society.
Read More »Michigan Tech’s Dr. Warren Kent Wray named UMR Provost
Dr. Warren K. (Kent) Wray, professor of civil engineering and former provost at Michigan Technological University (MTU) in Houghton, Mich., will become provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Missouri-Rolla effective Aug. 1, UMR Chancellor John F. Carney III announced Friday, May 19.
Read More »UMR professor to lead international clean water group
Dr. Craig Adams, the John and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, will begin his term as chair of the Adsorption Specialist Group of the International Water Association (IWA) this month.
Read More »Ron Miller tells new grads to ‘make deposits’ in future
In his spring commencement address May 13 at the University of Missouri-Rolla, James Ronald Miller quoted John Wooden, Dr. Seuss and even Yogi Berra, who said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
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