Missouri-Rolla Researchers Look To Plug Pipeline Breaks

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are working to reduce the threat of crude oil pipeline breaks in the Gulf of Mexico. The focus is on leak-detection methods – which ones are working and which ones don’t work. The research might help cut back...

Warning on dangers of doping

Losing an Olympic medal because of illegal drug use could be the least of an athletes’ worries. University of Missouri-Rolla biological sciences professor Robert Brown says performance-enhancing drugs do long-term damage to athletes. The steroids used can cause...

Rolla student dies of overdose

An overdose of nonprescription drugs and alcohol is listed as the cause of death of a freshman at the University of Missouri-Rolla. The body of Heather Hock was found Sunday night. She was an engineering student from Strafford. Last spring, she was the valedictorian...

The vomit comet

The same plane used for the film “Apollo-13” will host a series of experiments for some Missouri college students. University of Missouri-Rolla professor Marshall Porterfield is sending four students to Houston to board the KC-135 aircraft. It loops and...

MIAA Suspends Rolla Coach

The MI-Double-A has suspended Dawson Driscoll, the women’s soccer coach at Missouri-Rolla, for one game. Driscoll inserted an assistant coach into a game against Southwest Missouri State last season. Driscoll says he made the substitution because Rolla’s...