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 »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 »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 […]
Read More »Assigning names to generations is nothing new. Look at the list below to see where you fit in.
Read More »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.
Read More »Vital stats hometown: Kalona, Iowa birthday: 2/1/89 current occupation: Mid-Prairie High School senior college plans: starts UMR in August, signed to play volleyball dream job: either a marine biologist studying manatees in Florida or being a photographer for National Geographic interests: reading, hanging out with friends, volleyball, watching movies and crocheting
Read More »Vital stats hometown: Bartlesville, Oklahoma age: 20 current occupation: senior majoring in NucE favorite superhero: The Flash his passion: shooting — he adamantly believes the ability to handle a firearm proficiently is a necessary skill that everyone most certainly should have tattoos: none and he doesn’t plan on getting any
Read More »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.
Read More »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
Read More »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.
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