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Kip Kendrick hosts first town hall of legislative session

Kip Kendrick hosts first town hall of legislative session

Shelby Matthews March 14, 2019

Rep. Kip Kendrick, D-Columbia, fielded questions ranging from MoDOT funding to the Title IX bill in the legislature Thursday at the ARC in Columbia. Kendrick held his first town hall of the session with...

MU receives $10 million grant to fund center for rural school mental health

MU receives $10 million grant to fund center for rural school mental health

Cameron Barnard March 14, 2019

The MU College of Education received a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education on Feb. 27 in order to fund the creation of a National Center for Rural School Mental Health. According to...

Nobel Laureate George P. Smith donates prize money to establish scholarship fund

Nobel Laureate George P. Smith donates prize money to establish scholarship fund

Riddhi Andurkar March 14, 2019

George P. Smith, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in chemistry, decided along with his spouse, Marjorie Sable, that they would donate...

New MU center hopes to push for criminal justice research and reform

New MU center hopes to push for criminal justice research and reform

Wicker Perlis March 12, 2019

Criminal justice reform is being discussed across the country in Congress and at the kitchen table, and a new center at MU will bring people together to discuss and research issues relating to criminal...

RED process optimizes discharge process in nursing homes, MU researchers find

RED process optimizes discharge process in nursing homes, MU researchers find

Adele Du March 12, 2019

A research team at Sinclair School of Nursing recently adapted a discharge process, known as Reengineered Discharge, traditionally used in hospitals to fit in the needs of short stay nursing home patients. The...

MU awards five professors with 2019 Kemper teaching fellowship

MU awards five professors with 2019 Kemper teaching fellowship

Adele Du March 12, 2019

MU awarded five professors with the 2019 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence on Monday and Tuesday. Jennifer Fellabaum-Toston, associate teaching professor of education leadership and...

Cyclists speak out against UM land sale

Cyclists speak out against UM land sale

Laura Evans March 12, 2019

Five cyclists gathered in Flat Branch Park Monday morning before cycling off to deliver a petition to UM System President Mun Choi. The petition, signed by 555 people at the time of the event, was an attempt...

Como Man Show brings booze, cars, charitable destruction

Como Man Show brings booze, cars, charitable destruction

Ben Wiche March 12, 2019

Local radio station KCMQ hosted its annual Man Show at the Parkade Center on March 9. Billed as “the manliest event of the year,” it included exhibitions from various local businesses, raffles and...

‘Womxn’ gives a space to female-identifying artists

Mariana Labbate March 12, 2019

A diverse group of local artists, community members and students got together at Cafe Berlin on March 8, International Women's Day, for “Womxn: art in all its forms.” The night celebrated local and...

Headliners dominate South by Southwest

Headliners dominate South by Southwest

Jesse Baalman March 12, 2019

South by Southwest was never supposed to be the power player it is today in the world of film festival programming after its start as an independent event in Austin, Texas. Throughout the 2000s, the festival...

‘PEN15’ fearlessly recounts one of life’s most terrifying experiences: middle school

‘PEN15’ fearlessly recounts one of life’s most terrifying experiences: middle school

Eva Walker March 12, 2019

_This articles contains spoilers for “PEN15.”_ There are very few phases in life that have the potential to be as traumatizing as puberty’s gel pen-ridden starting line called middle school. The...

A look at the ‘Game of Thrones’ final season trailer

A look at the ‘Game of Thrones’ final season trailer

Bon Adamson March 12, 2019

_This article contains spoiler for seasons one through seven of “Game of Thrones.”_ The trailer for the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones” dropped on March 5, and most viewers are now...