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 »Nicole Dierkling photo by Rod Lentz Walk into the Gale Bullman Multi-Purpose Building on any given day and you will probably find Nicole Dierking, all by herself with a basketball, taking shot after shot after shot. It is a work ethic that paid dividends for the senior guard on the UMR women’s basketball team.
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