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UMR to dedicate solar village
The solar house team at the University of Missouri-Rolla, in conjunction with UMR’s Student Design and Experiential Learning Center, plans to dedicate UMR’s Solar Village this month during homecoming weekend.
Read More »Arts and crafts festival planned for downtown Rolla during homecoming
The Rolla Downtown Business Association (RDBA) will host the 20th Arts and Crafts Festival in downtown Rolla from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21. The event will coincide with homecoming activities at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Read More »Local art on display during homecoming
Original artwork and photography by local artists will be on display at the Havener Center on the campus of the University of Missouri-Rolla throughout homecoming weekend at UMR, Oct. 20-22.
Read More »UMR to present awards during homecoming banquet
Fourteen people with ties to the University of Missouri-Rolla will be honored during the MSM-UMR Alumni Association’s Awards Banquet Saturday, Oct. 21, at UMR.
Read More »Best showing ever: UMR students prove they can hang with professional mine rescuers
Two mine rescue teams from the University of Missouri-Rolla competed against about a dozen teams of professionals from the mining industry this week at UMR’s Experimental Mine. UMR’s gold team took third place overall in the competition and UMR’s black team placed fourth.
Read More »UMR Homecoming events scheduled for Oct. 20-22
Homecoming weekend at the University of Missouri-Rolla is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 20 to Oct. 22. For reservations and information about Homecoming 2006, contact the MSM-UMR Alumni Association at 573-341-4145.
Read More »UMR team does well in national big beam contest
The University of Missouri-Rolla recently received notification from the Pre-cast/Pre-stressed Concrete Institute (PCI) that a team of four UMR graduate students has placed second nationally in the report category of the PCI Big Beam contest.
Read More »UMR student helps to engineer wheelchair capable of going up and down stairs
Lindsay Waters of Springfield, Mo., was one of 13 college students from the United States and Puerto Rico to work on advanced science and engineering projects this summer at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Working with two other students, Waters helped to design and build a wheelchair capable of autonomously traversing stairs.
Read More »UMR to host mine rescue competition
In order to prepare for the eventuality of underground disasters like the one that happened last winter in West Virginia, mine rescue teams must anticipate and practice many scenarios that might occur below the surface. That’s just what mine rescue teams from Missouri, New Mexico, Kansas, Illinois and Nevada will be doing Sept. 26-28 at […]
Read More »UMR arts series to open with folk musician Arlo Guthrie
The 2006-2007 Campus Performing Arts series at the University of Missouri-Rolla will open with a performance by folk musician Arlo Guthrie. The performance will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets on the UMR campus.
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