Newsmakers: Tien, Worsey, Rogers
Dr. Jerry Tien comments on the Chinese coal industry in the International Herald Tribune. The Associated Press recently got the scoop on Explosives Camp. Dr. J. David Rogers discussed the state of the...
View ArticleExplosives Camp is kind of a big deal
John Schwartz of the New York Times says Camp Winnigootchee was never like this. Elsewhere: The Associated Press covered UMR’s It’s a Girl’s Thing camp. And: The Springfield News-Leader has the story...
View ArticleUMR in the news
UMR experts have been fielding media calls related to the bridge collapse in Minnesota all week. Stories quoting UMR researchers have appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Springrfield...
View ArticleUMR researchers discuss bridge collapse on PBS
Three UMR researchers recently talked to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about the future of bridges in the wake of the Minneapolis collapse. The researchers participating in the program included Dr. John...
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KY-3 in Springfield recently interviewed mine safety expert Dr. Jerry Tien and UMR Mine Rescue Team member Adam Kresler for a story related to the mining tragedy in Utah. The story is available online.
View ArticleUMR in the news: Mining
From today’s St. Lake Tribune (Aug. 22): "It’s a significant change in terms of pillars or no pillars or robbing the pillars," said Jerry Tien, a mining engineering professor at the University of...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Football
From today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Aug. 22): If you think the broiling Midwestern heat makes your job unbearable, imagine spending the summer months the way Ashton Gronewold spends them: bailing...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Career fair
The Springfield News-Leader is spreading the word about UMR’s Career Opportunities Center: UMR was recently cited by the Princeton Review as having one of the top 20 job placement programs among all...
View ArticleUMR in the News: Enrollment, Solar House, Human Power
UMR has been in the news in Springfield a lot this week. The Springfield News-Leader published a story on UMR’s enrollment successes and the UMR Solar House Team was the subject of a story on KOLR-10...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Land speed record update
Jerrod Bouchard and crew are in Nevada right now, preparing for a chance to break the collegiate human-powered land speed record. KOLR-10 (CBS) in Springfield was in Rolla last week to interview the...
View ArticleUMR in the news: McManus
Dr. John McManus has been named by the History News Network as one of its Top Young Historians.
View ArticleUMR in the news: Hydrogen highway, solar stuff
From today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch: UMR is taking part in a public-private effort to establish Missouri’s first permanent hydrogen fueling station and using a pair of hydrogen-powered shuttle buses...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Mine rescue
UMR’s annual Mine Rescue Competition was held recently, and the Associated Press was on the case: The scenario in the underground mine was grim: an unconscious victim beneath a roof near collapse,...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Solar Decathlon
CBS Sunday Morning spent a significant amount of time at the Solar Decathlon. We have received confirmation that the segment will be the “cover story” on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 9 a.m. Look for the UMR...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Coal mining careers
Yahoo News (via The Christian Science Monitor) has the scoop on coal mining careers: When Joshua Hoffman’s parents, a computer scientist and law-enforcement officer, sent their son to the University of...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Name change
From today’s Kansas City Star: “What we are seeing is institutions trying to better explain their value to their key constituents,” said Christopher Simpson, chief executive officer of...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Meth busters
This in USA Today: Greg Story, an atomic physics professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla, said the technology used in the scanner is not new. Molecules energized by ultraviolet light emit a...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Hello, is there anybody out there?
Did you hear that UMR is changing it’s name? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the following today: And last week, the school launched a related video campaign at hello.mst.edu. The website has short...
View ArticleUMR in the news: Petroleum engineering, Taco Bell
– Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman is quoted in a KOMU story about the shortage of petroleum engineers: "Right now we’re looking at start-up packages with 401k over 100 thousand dollars a year; it’s incredible,"...
View ArticleUMR in the news: KC Star
Who said a trip with Engineers Without Borders was supposed to be like spending Spring Break at the beach? This from the Kansas City Star: Bugs crawled in the straw mat all night, every night, nibbling...
View ArticleIn the news: Chancellor Carney’s Engineers Week op-ed
“US students should study engineering,” an opinion piece by Chancellor John F. Carney III, appears in today’s Springfield News-Leader.
View ArticleS&T in the news: Hydrogen-powered busses
Dr. K. Krishnamurthy, vice provost for research, recently spoke about Missouri S&T’s hydrogen-powered busses in Springfield: "Part of the project is to find out the cost of using hydrogen as a...
View ArticleIn the news: printing services recognized for innovations
Missouri S&T’s printing and mail services office was the subject of a recent magazine article highlighting the office’s partnership with the University of Missouri printing service while keeping...
View ArticleS&T in the news: All shook up
Missouri S&T’s earthquake experts have been busy analyzing last week’s shake-up in the Midwest. Follow the coverage at Visions, S&T’s research blog.
View ArticleS&T in the news: more about dirty hair and clean air
Missouri S&T environmental engineering research Glenn Morrison is the author of the cover article for the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Morrison’s article,...
View ArticleS&T in the news: experts on quake damage, copyright infringement, ethanol issues
Missouri S&T’s Dr. J. David Rogers was interviewed by a New York Times reporter for a follow-up story in the International Herald Tribune about structural damage in the aftermath of the recent...
View ArticleMissouri S&T in the news: Jim Bogan on (not in) the hammock
Jim Bogan, Curators’ Teaching Professor of art, languages and philosophy, is not only the resident hammock expert at Missouri S&T (he made a movie about them). He’s also one of the nation’s most...
View ArticleS&T alumnus, GM exec featured on NBC Nightly News
Missouri S&T graduate Bob Kruse, EE’81, a General Motors in charge of hybrids and electric vehicles, was featured earlier this week on one of NBC Nightly News’ "Running on Empty" segments about...
View ArticleMissouri S&T in the news: explosives camp, file-sharing, hammocks and horsepower
Missouri S&T has been in the news a lot lately. In terms of national visibility, the biggest bang (so to speak) comes from Time magazine, which will feature a brief about the camp in its June 30...
View ArticleS&T in the news: food shortages, horses and hammocks (again)
Missouri S&T graduate student Parthiv Shah and his advisor, Dr. Elizabeth Cudney, were covered by the Malaysia Sun for their research to help predict future food shortages. Read the full story...
View ArticleIn the news: Obama coverage
The Obama for America campaign stop at Missouri S&T on Wednesday brought plenty of media attention to the campus and Rolla, as well as several media mentions of the new name. For a roundup of the...
View ArticleResearcher featured on cover of fluid mechanics journal
Congratulations to Dr. Arindam Banerjee, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, for making the cover of the Sept. 25 issue of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, published by...
View ArticleChancellor’s op-ed about STEM in today’s Post-Dispatch
An opinion piece by Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader, titled “STEM education: Where the girls are not,” was published in today’s edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The article points out the widening...
View ArticleChancellor’s op-ed in Post-Dispatch
Chancellor Cheryl B. Schrader’s recent op-ed, titled An Emerging Theory on STEM, was published this week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
View ArticlePost-Dispatch covers S&T, “Rolla ratio”
Monday's edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch includes two stories about Missouri S&T: A front-page article about our economic impact and value to the state and a story about the campus gender...
View ArticleIn the news: Dachau liberation, DELTA Labs, Oroville Dam, ‘World of Warcraft’
Dr. John McManus, Curators’ Distinguished professor of history, was quoted in The Times of Israel article, “These U.S. Soldiers Liberated Dachau While Their own Families Were Locked Up Back Home,”...
View ArticleIn the news: EMSE, Explosives Camp, iGem and Maker Faire
Stephen Corns, associate chair of graduate studies, is featured in an Engineering.com article about Missouri S&T’s master’s degree in engineering management. The article, “Take the Lead Where...
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