MU Libraries received a $400,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help cover the cost of remediation and replacement of books damaged by an [off-site mold outbreak discovered in February](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/2/12/mold-destroys-600000-library-books/). The...

Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced Thursday that Ellen de Graffenreid will serve as MU’s new vice chancellor of marketing and communications. De Graffenreid is the vice president for communications...

This past spring, graduate students in MU’s Atmospheric Science Department started their own campus weather service for students and locals to check weather updates. The service is run entirely by graduate...

MU has hired Patrice Delafontaine as the new School of Medicine dean effective December 1. Delafontaine currently serves as the Chief of Cardiology at Tulane University, a member of the Association of...

After decades of providing housing for many graduate students and their families, University Village will finally be demolished Monday after a [walkway collapse killed Columbia fireman Bruce Britt in February](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/2/22/university-village-evacuated/). Marschel...

In what seems to be a trend at Pitchfork Music Festival, Sunday at Chicago’s Union Park will be a rap and DJ-heavy day, full of well-established artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Grimes....

Driving a 27-foot-long Oscar Mayer Wienermobile around the U.S. isn’t an opportunity that every new college graduate gets. But MU 2014 graduates Joey Greenstein, Jessica Smith and Jackson Hobbs each...

KOMU/Channel 8 won four first-place awards from the Missouri Broadcasters Association during the association's annual June award ceremony in Branson. Anchor Jim Riek received the first-place honor for...