A memorial service for Ph.D. candidate Brian Blaha will be held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Ballwin, Mo, on Saturday, July 14. Visitation will start at noon and the service will start at 1 p.m. All those in the UMR community who knew, loved and respected Brian are invited to attend. Blaha recently lost […]

The Career Opportunities Center needs your assistance in replenishing its suit closet for the fall semester. If you have men’s or women’s suits that you would like to donate, please drop them off on the third floor of Norwood Hall. For additional information, contact Amy Lewis at lewisaj@umr.edu .

A search committee for the chief information officer has been formed. Members of the committee were appointed by the provost and the chancellor. For more information on the search committee’s activities, please visit the Provost’s webpage.

UMR Campus Procurement currently has two procurement support specialist positions open for applications. Due to differences in job posting systems between the UM System and UMR, the positions are not included in the normal UMR job listing. Details of the job postings (Vacancy Number 1008047) as well as application information are available online from a […]

Election ballots for vacant Staff Council positions are due Friday, July 13. Ballots should be sent to Melissa Folsom, election chair, 209 Norwood Hall. For more information, contact Melissa Folsom at 341-7276 or mfolsom@umr.edu.

UMR civil engineering senior Gavin Donohue was killed Saturday, July 7. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 12, at Kirkwood United Methodist Church, 201 W. Adams Ave. in Kirkwood, Mo. Burial will follow at the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Grubville, Mo. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions […]

Due to the outstanding work of the web migration team, we will complete the content migration of all official websites way ahead of schedule. This is great for the rebranding effort, but students that hoped to work until school began are now without work. If you need to hire a temporary, part-time student to work […]

The UMR Archives will have very limited services July 23 to July 27. The Archives will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; however, we can only accept materials during that week. For more information, contact Dr. Diana Ahmad at 341-4817 or email ahmadd@umr.edu.

UMR graduate and Board of Trustee Mr. Theodore Weise, former president and CEO of Federal Express Corp., will be the keynote speaker at the 2007 New Student Convocation. Weise graduated from UMR in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. He was awarded an honorary professional degree in 1994 and an honorary doctorate in […]

Faculty participation is vital when we welcome the new students to campus in August. There will be more than 1,050 new students on campus for Opening Week Orientation 2007. Interested faculty will eat lunch and meet in student mentor groups to discuss faculty expectations and classroom respect. The goal of this activity is to facilitate […]