Author: Mindy Limback

Ahearn named men’s soccer coach

Posted by on September 11, 2007

Joe Ahearn, former assistant coach at Colgate University, has been named as the new UMR men’s soccer coach. He takes over for Vince Darnell, who resigned to pursue other career opportunities.

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Gaul lands top academic award for second time

Posted by on September 11, 2007

For the second consecutive year, senior swimmer Bill Gaul, ChE’07, was named Player of the Year on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team. It is the third time in the last four seasons that a UMR swimmer has earned this top academic award.

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Ray and Susan Betz: Reputation is key

Posted by on September 10, 2007

For Ray Betz, CE’66, and his wife, Susan, reputation is key – UMR’s reputation, that is.

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Campaign Launch: $115 million and counting

Posted by on July 31, 2007

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. […]

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Lessons from Bolivia

Posted by on July 31, 2007

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, […]

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OGS earns its pearls

Posted by on July 29, 2007

As the Order of the Golden Shillelagh celebrates its 30th anniversary, it’s tempting to relive the past and reminisce about how individuals “picked up the shillelagh” to provide financial support for the university. After all, that group of concerned individuals, like a grain of sand to an oyster, supplied the foundation for what became a […]

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Explosives camp

Posted by on June 27, 2007

As NPR reported this summer, "Teens at explosives camp learn how to use dynamite to obliterate watermelons and blast rocks from the depths of mine shafts.

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Talkin’ ’bout a new generation

Posted by on March 31, 2007

The year was 1982. E.T. phoned home. Cable News Network, more familiar to most as CNN, was launched. Time magazine’s Man of the Year was, for the first time, given to a non-human: a computer. And the elders of the millennial generation were learning to crawl.

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Talkin’ ’bout my generation

Posted by on March 13, 2007

Generation Xers’ lack optimism, Baby Boomers seek individual freedom, and members of the Silent Generation were cautious and, well, silent. Stereotypes were made to be broken. The UMR Magazine asked alumni during Homecoming to share thoughts about their generation. Here’s what they said.

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Jake Midkiff: recent UMR graduate

Posted by on March 13, 2007

Vital stats hometown: Farmington, Missouri degree: bachelor’s in GeoE’06 current occupation: staff engineering, Qore Property Science current location: recently moved from West Palm Beach, Florida, to Nashville, Tennessee college activities: Engineers Without Borders (EWB), Pi Kappa Alpha political views: liberal

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