Month: July 2007
Advancing Excellence
UMR capital campaign seeks to strengthen campus is key areas If there is one common quality among UMR alumni and friends, it’s loyalty.
Read More »A legacy through lectures
Goal for program support: $32 million Amount raised: $32.2 million
Read More »Building a better UMR
Goal for facilities: $37 million Amount raised: $15.6 million
Read More »Empowering the fearless
Stephen and Susan Rector | photo by Susan English Goal for scholarships: $35 million Amount raised: $23.1 million Stephen W. Rector, PetE’72, MS PetE’73, got the chance for a college education thanks to scholarships in petroleum engineering. Now, Rector and his wife, Susan, are giving that same chance to future generations of Miners through their […]
Read More »Focusing on faculty
Last year, John CE’67, MS CE’68, and Susan Mathes matched their previous donation of $550,000, which created an endowed professorship in 1995.
Meet the team
National Chair Gary Forsee, CE’72, chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp. Forsee believes alumni can have an invaluable influence on UMR’s legacy of educational excellence. “As part of the campaign leadership team and as a member of the Board of Trustees, I believe the ability to help set an agenda for the university based […]
Read More »Campaign Launch: $115 million and counting
On Thursday, April 19, UMR Chancellor John F. Carney III announced the launch of the largest capital campaign in the institution’s history. Titled “Advancing Excellence: The Campaign for the University of Missouri-Rolla,” the goal is to raise $200 million by June 2010 to achieve the university’s vision of becoming a top five technological research university. […]
Read More »Lessons from Bolivia
This past summer the University of Missouri-Rolla’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders traveled to two destinations in Bolivia to apply their engineering skills to local problems. The first destination was a small boarding school in the Amazon. There the problem consisted of finding a clean source of water. The second location was in Inca Katurapi, […]
Read More »Miner swimmers place fourth at NCAA II meet
The UMR swimming team placed fourth at the NCAA Championships in March, its highest result at a national meet since 1998 and its fourth straight top-10 finish. The 12 team members earned a total of 37 All-America honors, 17 of which was based on individual performance, and established nine new school records.
Read More »David Hill: It all starts with an idea
David Hill | photo by Megan Kean By the time he graduated high school, industrial engineering senior David Hill already had his foot in the door of the business world. As a sophomore at Oakville Senior High in St. Louis, he and some friends started a web design company that was successful from the start, […]
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