Author: Andrew Careaga
In the land Down Under
The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once described England and America as “two countries separated by a common language.” Karen Bard, PetE’81, thinks Shaw’s saying also holds true for America and her current home, Australia.
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The ultimate dream job: For some S&T grads, space really is the final frontier
In February, Sandra Magnus became the first person to study fire aboard the International Space Station. It was one of the many tasks for Magnus, Phys’86, MS EE’90, during her four-month stint aboard the ISS. During that time she also answered dozens of questions via a special S&T website called “spacebook.” Grade-school and middle-school students, […]
Read More »Greek mythology
With 23 members, Beta Sigma Psi was one of Missouri S&T’s smaller fraternities when Elliot Gross (pictured at right) joined the chapter in 2005. Just a year earlier, the fraternity had dwindled to a small band of 11 brothers, far below the “70 or 80” members Beta Sig boasted in the early ‘80s, Gross says. […]
Read More »Go ask Alice? We would if we could
For more than four decades, students chosen to become knights of St. Patrick underwent a baptism into a pool of soupy, slimy concoction that came to be known as “Alice.”
Read More »Fitz: St. Pat’s man behind the lens
Bob Fitzsimmons was a high school freshman when he started working part time for the Rolla Daily News in 1956.
Read More »Ben Roodman: Text is what’s next
To glimpse the future of social networking, don’t look to MySpace or Facebook. Turn on your cell phone instead. That’s the platform Ben Roodman is using to help on-the-go hipsters gather the latest information about concerts, movies and other forms of entertainment in their communities.
Read More »Taking us to the top 5
View imageThe plan called for increasing fundraising, research and student recruitment efforts to help attain the goal. At the same time, Carney wanted to reduce the university’s deficit and flatten the administration to break down “silos” among the academic departments – moves that were also necessary to ensure the campus operates at peak efficiency.
Read More »Rankings bolster reputation
If there were ever any doubts about UMR’s standing as a top technological research university, two major rankings during the past year should have put those doubts to rest. First, UMR was named one of the nation’s 25 “most connected” campuses in a survey conducted by Forbes and The Princeton Review. That report, posted on […]
Read More »Time for a new name?
For 42 years, this campus has been known as the University of Missouri-Rolla, or UMR. But does that name really reflect the university’s true identity?
Read More »It’s a flat, flat, flat, flat world
It was “a time of tremendous excitement” for engineers when Harry J. “Hank” Sauer Jr. entered graduate school at MSM-UMR 50 years ago. It had been nine years since Chuck Yeager had broken the sound barrier, and the U.S. seemed poised for even greater breakthroughs in flight. Fueled by the post-World War II economy and […]
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