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Gravity played role in New Orleans’ bridge failures
Sir Isaac Newton did a number on the Interstate 10 bridges in New Orleans, according to a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla that helped document some of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Read More »UMR choir to perform music from around the world
The University of Missouri-Rolla choir will host its annual holiday concert, “Music Around the World,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla. The performance is free and open to the public.
Read More »Players of the year: Football stars get top honors
The most successful football season in 20 years for the University of Missouri-Rolla has resulted in the Miners earning several of the top honors from the Independent Football Alliance for the 2005 season.
Read More »UMR library brings 19th-century news to the web
Newspapers from as far back as the Civil War era have gone digital, thanks to a $12,028 grant to the University of Missouri-Rolla’s Curtis Laws Wilson Library.
Read More »UMR faculty member publishes biography on Civil War general
A faculty member at the University of Missouri-Rolla has written the first biography of Gen. Thomas Sweeny, an important figure in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Mo.
Read More »Masonry expert to discuss deterioration detection
Michael Schuller, president of Atkinson-Noland & Associates in Boulder, Colo., will present “Nondestructive and In-place Evaluation of Masonry” at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in Room 110 of the Butler-Carlton Civil Engineering Building on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus.
Read More »ASEM honors engineering management faculty, alumni
Three faculty members from UMR’s engineering management and systems engineering department and two recent Ph.D. recipients from that department were honored by the American Society of Engineering Management during ASEM’s annual conference Oct. 26-29 in Virginia Beach, Va.
Read More »UMR researcher sets sights on improving vision
A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher has teamed up with a St. Louis opthamologist to help those who suffer from cataracts by studying the elasticity of lenses.
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