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UMR, Naples university form partnership

By news | December 17, 2002 | Comments Off on UMR, Naples university form partnership

As part of its new global education initiatives, UMR recently entered into a cooperative agreement with the University of Naples Federico II (UniNa) in Italy to develop and implement programs, including a student and faculty exchange program.

UMR developing Missouri’s first interdisciplinary engineering program

By news | December 5, 2002 | Comments Off on UMR developing Missouri’s first interdisciplinary engineering program

Aided by a $100,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation, educators at the University of Missouri-Rolla are mapping out a novel approach to teaching engineering — one that will incorporate more hands-on design and engineering to better prepare students for emerging engineering careers.

Old-time baseball and all that "jazz"

By news | December 5, 2002 | Comments Off on Old-time baseball and all that "jazz"

In the second of his three-volume study of old baseball terms, University of Missouri-Rolla Professor Gerald Cohen digs up the early meanings of "gunner," "kale," and the term that led to the book project in the first place: "jazz."