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UMR professor appointed to national mine safety committee

By news | December 18, 2003 | Comments Off on UMR professor appointed to national mine safety committee

Dr. Larry Grayson, chair and professor of mining engineering at UMR was recently appointed to serve a three-year term on the Mine Safety and Health Research Advisory Committee for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Washington, D.C. The agency is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

UMR faculty members receive excellence awards

By news | December 17, 2003 | Comments Off on UMR faculty members receive excellence awards

Nineteen University of Missouri-Rolla faculty members received Faculty Excellence Awards from UMR Chancellor Gary Thomas during an awards dinner Dec. 16.

UMR’s Gerald Cohen publishes final volume of baseball dictionary

By news | December 12, 2003 | Comments Off on UMR’s Gerald Cohen publishes final volume of baseball dictionary

Gerald Cohen, professor of foreign languages at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently completed the third and final volume of his Dictionary of 1913 Baseball and Other Lingo. Its material is taken primarily from the baseball columns of the San Francisco Bulletin newspaper between February and May of 1913.