As NASA prepares for Discovery astronauts to return home, two engineers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working to get the spaceflight program back on solid ground.
Congress' passage of a new transportation bill last week means the University of Missouri-Rolla's University Transportation Center (UTC) will receive $16 million over the next five years to research critical national transportation issues.
Eight months after losing his left hand in a car accident, a University of Missouri-Rolla senior is designing and building an artificial hand that uses human nerve impulses to move it.
A team of students from the University of Missouri-Rolla will try for another championship in solar car racing beginning July 17 in Austin, Texas. The race covers 2,500 miles, ending in Calgary, Alberta.
A UMR chemist received a Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the EPA for his invention of an environmentally friendly latex paint additive that reduces volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions.
A group of biological sciences students from the University of Missouri-Rolla are spending a week in the Bahamas to study tropical marine biodiversity.
A Harvard Business Review critique of how many business schools are "institutionalizing their own irrelevance" by focusing on theory rather than practical education runs counter to a more entrepreneurial model embraced by the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Thirty years after scientists at the University of Missouri-Rolla and Grambling College discovered "strange" Xenon in meteorites, scientists from Japan and France are reporting the discovery of other strange elements left over from the birth of the solar system.
The newest edition of VISIONS, the University of Missouri-Rolla's online research magazine, joins the car customizing craze by focusing on ways UMR researchers are transforming the automotive industry.
A round-up of University of Missouri-Rolla environmental research activities, for use by the media as briefs or as background for stories.
As the United States reflects on the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, a University of Missouri-Rolla military historian can offer insight into the day that signaled the end of fighting in the Vietnam War.
Dr. Jee-Ching Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, recently received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to support his work on modeling nanoparticle self-assembly.
As five Midwestern states add soot alerts to their warning system for dirty air, one University of Missouri-Rolla researcher is trying to get to the root of the soot problem.
Could a disaster similar to Monday's explosion inside an underground coal mine in northeast China happen in the United States? Two mining and mine safety experts are available to the media today to comment.
As Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers scurry to get radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on their pallets in time to meet a January 2005 deadline, two researchers are joining forces to figure out how to use data from those tags in the most efficient way.
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla have developed a new kind of laser writing: one that shrinks "text" to the size of atoms, then embeds the text into a writing surface as light as air.
Roughly 200,000 houses in St. Louis might as well have the cross-stitched phrase "Home, sweet (and toxic), home" hanging in a frame on their living room wall, according to a University of Missouri-Rolla researcher.
Think of them as a CSI team minus the blood and guts. Armed with GPS devices and hip boot waders, biology students at the University of Missouri-Rolla canvass the Marguerite Bray Conservation Area just west of Rolla each month, searching for signs of life.
With the nation still feeling the effects of the recent hurricanes, Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman can offer an expert insight into the oil production standstill due to platform and pipeline repair taking place in the Gulf of Mexico.
Homework assignments in five sections of Basic Engineering 110, Mechanics of Materials, at the University of Missouri-Rolla have gone digital and visual, thanks to a team of UMR researchers.
Scheduled to hit bookstores in time for Veterans Day, the latest book by military historian Dr. John C. McManus examines the Normandy invasion from the American perspective.
An improvised explosive device (IED), often rigged to detonate from a distance, may be the most common casualty producing weapon in Iraq, but if it uses a radio receiver, it could also be one of the easiest to override.
If terrorists strike again, lives and buildings could be spared with bomb- and impact-resistant buildings constructed using concepts being developed by researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Automotive manufacturers may soon benefit from a new breed of metals "“ known as functionally gradient materials "“ that can withstand the high temperatures of die casting without cracking under pressure, according to a researcher.
As NASA continues to focus on sending explorers to Mars, two scientists at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working on ways to house the astronauts when they arrive on the red planet by building with Martian minerals.
With hundreds of thousands of the nation's bridges nearing the end of their design lives, cash-strapped states are searching for innovative solutions to repair and replace their decaying structures. One answer may lie in the same material that delivered the stealth aircraft, according to two researchers.
The University of Missouri-Rolla will help lead a national effort to improve mine health and safety through a $4.02 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
A new sensor system may help get rescue personnel to the scene faster the next time a tornado or terrorist damages a bridge or other structure because of its ability to "memorize" the location of the damage.
The next battery-powered bunny may move to the beat of a different sort of battery -- a solid oxide fuel cell -- with the help of a new glass-ceramic seal being developed by researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
In the wake of the recent steel shortage, researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are exploring ways to make steel production in the United States quicker, cheaper and more efficient.
The next time the New Madrid fault zone produces a strong earthquake, buildings in the Midwest may see less damage if they use a new device developed by a UMR researcher.
The University of Missouri-Rolla will soon offer a new bachelor of science degree program in interdisciplinary engineering to provide more flexibility to students interested in working in new and emerging fields. The degree will be the first of its kind in Missouri.
An embryonic rift valley in Botswana, the southwestern extension of the East African Rift System, where some of the earliest hominids have been discovered, may also hold answers to continental breakup, according to a geologist who is studying how the rift has formed.
As Americans continue to demand more individualized products, companies are looking for ways to fulfill those needs without starting from scratch. The answer may be found in a new software tool, says one researcher at the University of Missouri-Rolla.
As American families continue to hit the nation's roads this summer, their minds are likely on reaching their vacation destinations, not how their vehicles get them there. But that's not the case for some tribologists, who study how the rubber meets the road.
The latest advance toward understanding the electron transport mechanism of high-temperature superconductors relies on materials provided by a professor of ceramic engineering.
To coincide with the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy invasion during World War II, UMR military historian Dr. John C. McManus has published a unique new book that examines the battle from the American perspective.
While gas prices remain above $2 a gallon in many areas of the nation as the summer travel season approaches, researchers are working in Missouri to develop a technique that may lessen the nation's reliance on foreign oil.
A University of Missouri-Rolla researcher's investigation into how proteins adhere to surfaces may lead the elimination of surface-induced thrombus formation, a phenomenon known to cause blood clots in artificial arteries, valves and veins.
University of Missouri-Rolla biologists studying the mineral-rich waters of Soap Lake in Washington state discovered a new genus of bacteria in the lake.
If you're surrounded by boorish fans at a sporting event, moving to another part of the arena or stadium might not help you escape fans behaving badly, according to a student's research.
UM-R and the Boeing Co. will work together to develop new manufacturing methods for the aerospace industry and the U.S. Air Force through a $7.3 million federal contract.
The legend of Icarus may have a new ending within the next decade, according to a researcher helping to develop the world's first flapping-wing, solar-powered unmanned aircraft.
Nearly 70 years since H.G. Wells scared the nation with his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, researchers are now working on a technique that could show whether life on Mars ever existed.
Dr. Babak Fahimi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), as one of the 26 recipients of the ONR's Young Investigator Award in 2004.
From studies on how lead travels through Missouri rivers to research on the effects of aircraft exhaust on the ozone layer, researchers are involved in a variety of projects to better understand our environment.
Move over, hybrids. Two researchers are working on a way to transform current automobiles into leaner, greener vehicles.
How lead and other metals travel through the rivers of southeast Missouri's lead and zinc mining districts is the subject of a study by two students who will present their findings at a Geological Society of America meeting in St. Louis.
A new flight-control method originally created to launch missiles and aircraft may one day send unmanned space vehicles on voyages to the moon, Mars, or beyond.
It may not be the common cold that's the culprit behind your itchy eyes and dry throat but some of the common chemicals found in your home, according to a researcher developing new techniques to understand indoor air pollution and "Sick Building Syndrome."
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