Tag: University of Missouri-Rolla
UMR historian launches project to research the U.S. Bureau of Mines
When University of Missouri-Rolla historian Dr. Jeff Schramm began researching the U.S. Bureau of Mines Rolla experiment station last spring, he found that almost no scholarly works about the bureau exist.
Read More »UMR welcomes Chancellor Carney
Dr. John F. Carney III was formally introduced as UMR’s chancellor Friday, Sept. 2, during a news conference held in the Havener Center.
Read More »Ozark author Donald Harington to read from his latest novel at UMR Sept. 9
Author Donald Harington, recognized by the Boston Globe as “one of America’s great contemporary authors,” will read from his latest novel, The Pitcher Shower, on the University of Missouri-Rolla campus on Friday, Sept. 9.
Read More »UMR Solar House Team is going to Washington, D.C.
The way things are going, the American Dream might soon be to own your own solar house – one that’s capable of charging your own electric car. Students at the University of Missouri-Rolla have built such a house and they’re working on another.
Read More »UMR to assist students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
UMR will immediately assist students returning home to Missouri who attend colleges that have been closed due to Hurricane Katrina.
Read More »UMR offers students legal access to 1.7 million song titles
Beginning this semester, the University of Missouri-Rolla is offering its students legal access to 1.7 million song titles.
Read More »Reaching for the stars
It’s become an American cliche, the familiar answer to a question asked of American schoolkids everywhere in the 1960s and ’70s. What do you want to be when you grow up? the teacher would ask. The less inspired among us would recite the usual answers: firefighters, doctors, police officers. But there were always other children […]
Read More »UMR to welcome Dr. John F. Carney III
The UMR community will welcome Chancellor-designate John F. Carney III to campus with a news conference and ice cream social on Friday, Sept. 2.
Read More »UMR Fall 2005 Free Film Festival to feature several acclaimed movies
Beginning with Million Dollar Baby on Tuesday, Aug. 30, this season’s University of Missouri-Rolla Free Film Festival will showcase 13 critically acclaimed feature films and documentaries.
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