Missouri S&T has been in the news a lot lately. In terms of national visibility, the biggest bang (so to speak) comes from Time magazine, which will feature a brief about the camp in its June 30 edition, on newsstands soon.

Other recent news items:

• The sway of hammocks, quoting James Bogan and originally published in the Los Angeles Times, is repeated in Florida's Sun Sentinel newspaper. "In 1996, James Bogan, a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, poet and frequent traveler to Brazil, wrote that even today, residents of the Amazon call their hammocks 'old mother,' a reference to the way hammocks seem to embrace and envelop sleepers in comforting arms."
• Copyright quiz limits students' music file sharing is the Newsweek pickup of an Associated Press story that has been covered by many news organizations across the nation.
• Across Missouri: Rolla man rides horse to save gas, about how Missouri S&T plumber Roy Snelson cuts down on his fuel bill, has been covered by The Kansas City Star and other media across the state.

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Missouri S&T graduate Bob Kruse, EE'81, a General Motors in charge of hybrids and electric vehicles, was featured earlier this week on one of NBC Nightly News' "Running on Empty" segments about rising fuel costs. The segment focused on GM's development of alternative-fuel vehicles and included an interview with Kruse, who is executive director for Global Vehicle Engineering, Hybrids, Electric Vehicles and Batteries. View the segment online.

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Jim Bogan, Curators' Teaching Professor of art, languages and philosophy, is not only the resident hammock expert at Missouri S&T (he made a movie about them). He's also one of the nation's most knowledgeable people when it comes discussing the swinging lounge. The Los Angeles Times has taken notice, and quotes Bogan extensively in a recent tribute to the hammock, Centuries later, the hammock is still swinging. "The hammock lives on, Bogan said by phone from his home in Rolla, Mo., 'because no one's ever invented anything better. And no one ever will.'"

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Missouri S&T's Dr. J. David Rogers was interviewed by a New York Times reporter for a follow-up story in the International Herald Tribune about structural damage in the aftermath of the recent earthquake in China:

A dam can fail in slow motion, he said. "If they do have a leak, this thing could fail two weeks from now."

Read the full story here.

Karl Lutzen was interview for an Inside Higher Ed story about Missouri S&T's successs at minimizing copyright infringement (with respect to downloading copyrighted materials):

Karl F. Lutzen, a systems security analyst at the university, chalks it up to Missouri S&T’s unusual method of regulating students’ network usage: In order to download (or upload) files on any peer-to-peer network whatsoever, all on-campus users have to pass an online quiz on copyright infringement.

Read the full story here.

And Dr. David Summers was interviewed for a recent KY-3 story on ethanol.

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Missouri S&T environmental engineering research Glenn Morrison is the author of the cover article for the latest issue of the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Morrison's article, Interfacial Chemistry in Indoor Environments, discusses the state of indoor ozone research. Read more on the Visions research blog.

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Missouri S&T's earthquake experts have been busy analyzing last week's shake-up in the Midwest. Follow the coverage at Visions, S&T's research blog.

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Missouri S&T's printing and mail services office was the subject of a recent magazine article highlighting the office's partnership with the University of Missouri printing service while keeping offset work in the in-plant arena to help fund its future growth. The article, In-plant Partnership, New Color Printer for Missouri University, was published in the latest issue of In-Plant Graphics magazine and is featured on the magazine's main website.

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Dr. K. Krishnamurthy, vice provost for research, recently spoke about Missouri S&T's hydrogen-powered busses in Springfield:

"Part of the project is to find out the cost of using hydrogen as a fuel," he said. "It is going to be expensive for a while, but our goal is to reach a cost of between $1.75 and $4.75 per gallon of gasoline equivalent."

Read the full story in the Springfield News-Leader.

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“US students should study engineering,” an opinion piece by Chancellor John F. Carney III, appears in today’s Springfield News-Leader.

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Who said a trip with Engineers Without Borders was supposed to be like spending Spring Break at the beach? This from the Kansas City Star:

Bugs crawled in the straw mat all night, every night, nibbling on exposed parts of Allison Poulignot’s body. The 19-year-old University of Missouri-Rolla engineering student tossed and turned one evening, then curled into a ball from the pain in her stomach. As chills coursed through her, Poulignot shivered violently despite the tropical heat that lay over the Bolivian village she visited last summer.

It gets better. Read the whole story from the Star's Christmas edition.

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-- Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman is quoted in a KOMU story about the shortage of petroleum engineers:

"Right now we're looking at start-up packages with 401k over 100 thousand dollars a year; it's incredible," explained Dunn-Norman.

-- Also: UMR's proximity to Taco Bell apparently counts for something. The Springfield News-Leader has the scoop.

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Did you hear that UMR is changing it's name? The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the following today:

And last week, the school launched a related video campaign at hello.mst.edu. The website has short video clips of faculty, students, alumni and mascot Joe Miner saying "I am Missouri S&T" — or in some cases, "I am Missourah S&T." The school has encouraged university folks to post their own videos to the site, too.

Those video clips are just getting more and more famous. Read the full story here.

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This in USA Today:

Greg Story, an atomic physics professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla, said the technology used in the scanner is not new.

Molecules energized by ultraviolet light emit a unique color spectrum that can be measured, Story said. Even when meth is created from different chemicals, the methamphetamine molecule would emit its own unique spectral signal, he says.

"I can't speculate on (the scanner's) accuracy, but yes, in principle, it's absolutely possible," Story said.

Read the full story here.

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From today's Kansas City Star:

“What we are seeing is institutions trying to better explain their value to their key constituents,” said Christopher Simpson, chief executive officer of SimpsonScarborough, a Washington, D.C-based branding and marketing firm that works primarily with colleges and universities. “It’s kind of like when the Boston Patriots became the New England Patriots to give them broader appeal. They weren’t just Boston’s team any more. They were New England’s team...Suddenly, institutions really had to do a better job at marketing. Part of that is making sure their name reflects their mission, their vision and their value.”

Read the full story here.

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Yahoo News (via The Christian Science Monitor) has the scoop on coal mining careers:

When Joshua Hoffman's parents, a computer scientist and law-enforcement officer, sent their son to the University of Missouri at Rolla (UMR), a coal mine was probably the last place they imagined higher education taking their son. Yet, as an explosives engineering major, Mr. Hoffman is now excited to don a hard hat and pursue the black rock.

OK. Technically, explosives engineering is a minor. But you can read the full story here.

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CBS Sunday Morning spent a significant amount of time at the Solar Decathlon. We have received confirmation that the segment will be the “cover story” on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 9 a.m. Look for the UMR house and team members.

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UMR's annual Mine Rescue Competition was held recently, and the Associated Press was on the case:

The scenario in the underground mine was grim: an unconscious victim beneath a roof near collapse, encased by rising levels of carbon monoxide and other deadly gases.

Read the full story on CNN's website.

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From today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

UMR is taking part in a public-private effort to establish Missouri's first permanent hydrogen fueling station and using a pair of hydrogen-powered shuttle buses to transport soldiers along a 55-mile stretch of Interstate 44 between Rolla and Lebanon

News from the nation's capital:

The University of Missouri-Rolla team’s house will go back to Rolla and pay for itself with rental income from what will certainly be the most sought-after housing on campus.

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Dr. John McManus has been named by the History News Network as one of its Top Young Historians.

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Jerrod Bouchard and crew are in Nevada right now, preparing for a chance to break the collegiate human-powered land speed record. KOLR-10 (CBS) in Springfield was in Rolla last week to interview the team members. The story was supposed to air last Friday, but it has been pushed back to tonight (Monday night) and will run during the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts.

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UMR has been in the news in Springfield a lot this week. The Springfield News-Leader published a story on UMR's enrollment successes and the UMR Solar House Team was the subject of a story on KOLR-10 (CBS) and Fox newscasts in Springfield. Also, a feature story about the Human-Powered World Speed Challenge Team and its quest to break the collegiate land speed record next week in Nevada will air on KOLR-10 tonight during the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts.

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The Springfield News-Leader is spreading the word about UMR's Career Opportunities Center:

UMR was recently cited by the Princeton Review as having one of the top 20 job placement programs among all universities in the nation.

Read the full story.

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From today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Aug. 22):

If you think the broiling Midwestern heat makes your job unbearable, imagine spending the summer months the way Ashton Gronewold spends them: bailing hay.

Read the full story here.

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From today's St. Lake Tribune (Aug. 22):

"It's a significant change in terms of pillars or no pillars or robbing the pillars," said Jerry Tien, a mining engineering professor at the University of Missouri-Rolla. "Bob Murray may have been more aggressive based on his experience in the east which may not be applicable here."

Read the full story here.

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KY-3 in Springfield recently interviewed mine safety expert Dr. Jerry Tien and UMR Mine Rescue Team member Adam Kresler for a story related to the mining tragedy in Utah. The story is available online.

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Three UMR researchers recently talked to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer about the future of bridges in the wake of the Minneapolis collapse. The researchers participating in the program included Dr. John Myers, interim director of the national University Transportation Center at UMR; Dr. Genda Chen, interim director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies at UMR; and Dr. Lokesh Dharani, Curators' Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UMR. Watch the story and read a transcript online.

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UMR experts have been fielding media calls related to the bridge collapse in Minnesota all week. Stories quoting UMR researchers have appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Springrfield News-Leader, the Columbia Tribune and on Fox News. Also, watch for a special announcement about a story featuring UMR researchers that will appear soon on PBS.

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John Schwartz of the New York Times says Camp Winnigootchee was never like this.

Elsewhere:

The Associated Press covered UMR's It's a Girl's Thing camp.

And:

The Springfield News-Leader has the story about a UMR student who proposed marriage at Bass Pro.

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Dr. Jerry Tien comments on the Chinese coal industry in the International Herald Tribune.

The Associated Press recently got the scoop on Explosives Camp.

Dr. J. David Rogers discussed the state of the levees in New Orleans with National Geographic.

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