EWB banquet scheduled

Dr. Bernard Amadei, professor of civil engineering, director of the Engineering for Developing Communities Program and founder of Engineers Without Borders at the University of Colorado, will be the keynote speaker for UMR's EWB Beans and Rice Celebration Banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, in the St. Pat's Ballroom of the Havener Center. Amadei is a Hoover Medal Award winnner. The award is presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers to commemorate the civic and humanitarian achievements of Herbert Hoover. The banquet is being held to celebrate UMR's EWB projects, completed and ongoing, and to recognize the parters and students who make it all work.