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CAFNR study shows benefits in school gardening programs

Leah Vredenbregt • February 4, 2020

Since the heavy industrialization of the 1900s, the United States has seen a gradual decrease in the food and agriculture skills of its youth. A recent study from the College of Agriculture, Food & Natural...

School of Music celebrates grand opening of Sinquefield Music Center facility

Alex Espinda • February 4, 2020

The MU School of Music unveiled the new Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center Saturday, Feb. 1, a building anticipated by the school since 2015. With the new building, the school hopes to put a new spotlight...

Mizzou Pharmacy-MU Student Center announces closure to centralize resources

Lucy Caile • February 4, 2020

The closure announcement of the Mizzou Pharmacy-MU Student Center at the end of last month had phones ringing in the pharmacy most the day as students hurried to change the location of their prescriptions. Tom...

Research finds how human brain’s functions are altered after loss of limb

Hannah Norton • December 27, 2019

Typically, when a person touches something with their right hand, a certain area in the left hemisphere of the brain is ‘lit up,’ and vice versa with the left hand. In a recent research study, Scott...

MU makes three-year commitment to Aspire to diversify STEM faculty, teaching

Jeb Goldman • December 3, 2019

An Equality of Opportunity Project study states, “if women, minorities, and children from low-income families were to invent at the same rate as white men from high-income families, the rate of innovation...

New connection emerges between Special Olympics Missouri and UM System

Jessica Fitzgerald • November 28, 2019

Special Olympics Missouri announced a new partnership between MU, MU Health Care and the UM System on Nov. 6. Special Olympics ensures every athlete is included, and this partnership aims to give more...

Kemper Fellow recipients emphasize hands on, continual learning in classroom

Lucy Caile • November 26, 2019

Tension and stress run high in Botswana Blackburn’s classroom in early October as students take their capstone midterms for the School of Health Professions. Near the end of the test, Blackburn looks...

IDE holds open forum, asks public what they want in next vice chancellor

Lauren Hines • November 24, 2019

In search of the next vice chancellor of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity, the Division of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity held open forums on Nov. 19 in the MU Student Center and Jesse Wrench Auditorium...

Kinder Institute at MU announces $10 million gift

Wicker Perlis • November 19, 2019

A $10 million gift from the Kinder family to MU’s Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy was announced on Nov. 12. The gift from the Kinder Foundation adds to a $25 million donation in 2015 which...

MU Law takes lead on paper-waste reduction

Wicker Perlis • November 15, 2019

Facing an ever-growing onslaught of papers and fliers, the faculty of MU’s School of Law decided to lead the way in a nationwide effort to reduce waste. Professor S.I. Strong, of the MU School of Law,...

Professor and director of research receives $1.8 million federal grant

Jessica Fitzgerald • November 14, 2019

A faculty member of the MU School of Medicine was recently awarded a federal grant to study how alcohol is involved in insomnia and other health issues. Professor and director of research Mahesh Thakkar,...

MU researchers continue to retrain immune system to fight cancer after receiving a $3.7 million grant

Lauren Hines • November 11, 2019

Researchers are striving to develop a new technique of immunotherapy that retrains the immune system to fight cancer. This would serve as an alternative to more conventional approaches like radiotherapy...