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Faculty Research

The following blog postings about faculty research come from the retired department chair's blog: 

"I search, you search, . . . research"  :The University of Missouri - Rolla is a technological research university. Does that mean that all research done at UMR is technological? Of course not. One immediately thinks of the sciences here and their vigorous research programs. Are there areas at UMR which don't do research? What about the humanities and the social sciences? Read more.....

Jambalaya and Literature : On October 4 this year, Dr. Trent Watts was a featured author at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge, an all-day event in and around the outstanding 34-story Art Deco state capitol, where Huey Long was assassinated in 1935. The organizers of the festival invited Dr. Watts and a number of other authors, including novelists, poets, and non-fiction writers, to present panels at which they discussed their books before interested and enthusiastic public audiences. Read more .....

Jack Morgan in St. Louis : Most Americans have only vague knowledge of our Civil War. That knowledge focuses on the best-known battles, places, and people east of the Mississippi. However, St. Louis, the Ozarks, and Missouri were important in that conflict. Research Professor Jack Morgan's recent book, Through Irish and American Wars: The Life and Times of General Thomas W. Sweeney 1820-1892, fills in an significant part of that history. Read more.....

Who Wrote the First Computer User Manual? : To learn who wrote the first user manual for computers, go to Ed Malone's column in the IEEE/PCS online newsletter. Dr. Malone has agreed to write a quarterly column for the newsletter of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. Read more.....

Where Did Your Steak Come From? : People are becoming more concerned about the origins of their foods, including beef. In his PhD dissertation, David Wright (assistant professor of English and Technical Communication) studied the efforts of the US Department of Agriculture to use RFID devices implanted in cattle to trace them from origin to use. Read more.....

Writing the Self : Many people write diaries, journals, logs, and so on. Most write for their own purposes — keeping records, expressing emotions, exploring ideas, and exploring writing are all done by journal keepers. To read someone else's journal is to enter in some way into the writer's experience, especially if the writer did not intend her journals to be read. Read more.....

Online Scholarship : One consequence of the increasing use of the World Wide Web is the migration of scholarship to online venues. Internet publication has many advantages for scholarly and creative work, especially ease of access for millions of people. Dr Elizabeth Cummins, Professor Emeritus of English and Technical Communication, is one of the scholars whose work is being published online. Read more.....

Student & Faculty Research : We at UMR — faculty and students alike — enjoy several research opportunities. Dr. Ed Malone (Assistant Professor of English and technical communication and Director of technical communication) and Tara Gosnell (graduate student in technical communication) have recently received a grant for a project titled "The Role of Historical Studies in Technical Communication Curricula." Read more.....