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MIT researcher named first Wilkens professor at UMR

By news | June 28, 2004 | Comments Off on MIT researcher named first Wilkens professor at UMR

Dr. Steven L. Grant, a telecommunications researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., and a native of Belton, Mo., was recently named the first Roy A. Wilkens Missouri Telecommunications Professor at UMR.

UMR leaving MIAA for Great Lakes Valley Conference

By news | June 28, 2004 | Comments Off on UMR leaving MIAA for Great Lakes Valley Conference

The University of Missouri-Rolla has accepted an invitation to become a member of the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference for the 2005-06 season, thus ending an affiliation with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association that dates back to 1935.

Student will be first master’s graduate from UMR’s online mining engineering program

By news | June 26, 2004 | Comments Off on Student will be first master’s graduate from UMR’s online mining engineering program

While many college students were lounging on the beaches of Cancun during Spring Break, Julie Gallaway, assistant professor of economics and finance at the University of Missouri-Rolla, traveled to another part of Mexico, studying how small loans help people in a poverty-stricken area.