Skip to Main Content
The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

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...

MU Residential Life moves off campus to apartments

MU Residential Life moves off campus to apartments

Riddhi Andurkar November 11, 2019

With MU’s freshman enrollment 16% higher this year, Residential Life has expanded off campus to accommodate its students. Residential Life now has apartments at the Rise, Campus Lodge and U Centre on...

RJI, MU Libraries strive to save Columbia history at KOMU, Missourian with help of grant

RJI, MU Libraries strive to save Columbia history at KOMU, Missourian with help of grant

Lauren Hines November 11, 2019

Ninety-nine cabinets sit in the middle of a room at the Columbia Missourian. They hold only a portion of the paper’s printed issues. In addition to the CDs, VHSs and floppy disks that store past newscasts...

MU signs transfer agreement with 12 Missouri community colleges

Hannah Norton November 11, 2019

Over the past few years, MU has been focusing on prioritizing relations with in-state community colleges and transfer students as a whole. On Oct. 4, MU made the commitment official by signing an agreement...

Psychology professor, students provide comprehensive research on arrogance

Psychology professor, students provide comprehensive research on arrogance

Jessica Fitzgerald November 5, 2019

A team of psychology researchers provided one of the first literature reviews on arrogance and divided it into three different categories. Nelson Cowan, a curators distinguished professor of psychological...

Students consider advantages and disadvantages of living near campus over farther away

Students consider advantages and disadvantages of living near campus over farther away

Lucy Caile November 5, 2019

After sharing a room with another person for a couple of months, many MU first-year students start the search for housing away from the dorms within the first semester. Students have a large selection...

$1.2 million federal grant expands internship program, allows doctoral students to fight opioid crisis head-on

$1.2 million federal grant expands internship program, allows doctoral students to fight opioid crisis head-on

Lauren Hines November 2, 2019

A $1.2 million federal grant was given to the MU Department of Health Psychology to help expand the department’s program that trains interns to fight against the opioid epidemic in rural Missouri. “This...

MU ROTC Tiger Battalion Ranger Challenge Team places first in Ranger Challenge competition

MU ROTC Tiger Battalion Ranger Challenge Team places first in Ranger Challenge competition

Jessica Fitzgerald October 29, 2019

The mission of Army ROTC, according to its website, is “to commission the future officer leadership of the U.S. Army and to motivate young people to be better citizens.” One of the ways MU’s ROTC...

Ragtag Film Society ending its sponsorship with The Crossing leads to discussion about gender identity, partnerships, free speech

Ragtag Film Society ending its sponsorship with The Crossing leads to discussion about gender identity, partnerships, free speech

Alex Fulton October 29, 2019

The Ragtag Film Society, which includes the True/False Film Festival, will end its sponsorship relationship with The Crossing church after Co-lead pastor Keith Simon delivered a sermon about gender identity...

Lack of information from advisers creates confusion for journalism students during transition to new curriculum

Lack of information from advisers creates confusion for journalism students during transition to new curriculum

Alex Fulton, Lauren Hines October 29, 2019

When sophomore Connor Clary met with his adviser, he was told to either take Journalism 2100 and 2150 at the same time next semester or drop out of the journalism program entirely. The problem was that...

Columbia shootings raise MU students’ fears

Wicker Perlis October 27, 2019

When 13-year-old Dajion Harris was shot and killed on Oct. 19, it was a story that had become all too familiar for many Columbia residents. From the months of January to August, there had been four homicides...

3D tyrannosaurus rex skull model brings unexpected results

3D tyrannosaurus rex skull model brings unexpected results

Wicker Perlis October 22, 2019

One of the great mysteries in the fields of paleontology and anatomy may have been solved by an MU team that created a 3D model for the skull of a tyrannosaurus rex. These scientists and researchers had...