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Open forum hosted by provost search committee focuses on necessary experience, leadership qualities

Stephi Smith • January 23, 2018

The search committee for MU’s next provost and executive vice chancellor held an open forum Monday in the Reynolds Alumni Center. The provost position opened in November when Provost and Executive Vice...

UM System Board of Curators discusses plans for the new year at December meeting

UNews Staff Writers • December 14, 2017

The UM System Board of Curators met at the St. Louis campus on Thursday and Friday to discuss future projects and programs and elect new leadership. Curator David Steelman was elected as the next chairman...

“Thrifty budget” reduces overall MU law school debt by $25,000 since 2014

Stephi Smith • December 14, 2017

The School of Law’s budget plan, which is now available for all law school students as of this fall, has decreased student debt by 21 percent. The “thrifty budget” is specific to MU law students,...

Showcase features students’ original garments and wearable art

Morgan Smith • December 12, 2017

Students in the textile and apparel management department’s Product Development program exhibited their fall semester projects inside and around the Gwynn Lounge on Thursday. The projects ranged from...

New engineering scholarship honors memory of late MU graduate

Morgan Smith • December 9, 2017

Since graduating in 1981, Scott and Linda Wright have inspired both of their children to attend MU. After Scott passed away in 2014, the Wright family decided to establish the Scott N. Wright Memorial...

Education professor develops mental health screening tool for public schools

Stephi Smith • December 2, 2017

Education professor Stephen Kilgus has developed a screening tool that is designed to assist teachers in identifying potential mental health problems in students. Kilgus’ research has involved analyzing...

MU College of Engineering student chosen as first recipient of EWF fellowship

Allison Cho • November 29, 2017

MU graduate student Rumana Aktar is the first recipient of the Executive Women’s Forum fellowship, which is a full-tuition, five-year doctoral scholarship. First announced in December 2016, the fellowship...

Board of Curators approves preliminary plans for capital projects

Morgan Smith • November 29, 2017

The UM System Board of Curators approved the preliminary plans for several major capital projects to benefit each of the UM System campuses and MU Health Care earlier this month. Following further planning...

MU professor’s book looks into the role of place in indigenous activism

Anne Clinkenbeard • November 26, 2017

Soren Larson, an associate professor of geography in the MU College of Arts and Science, published a book with the University of Minnesota Press that concentrates on the struggles of native peoples in...

New incentive program for faculty adoption, adaptation or creation of affordable and open educational resources announced by UM System

Lauren Bishop • November 20, 2017

The UM System recently launched an incentive program for faculty that adopt, adapt or create affordable and open educational resources for their classrooms. A&OERs are teaching materials that are in the...

$3 million scanner and isolation unit opens at MU veterinary hospital

Stephi Smith, Morgan Smith • November 19, 2017

The College of Veterinary Medicine held the grand opening of a new imaging center featuring a positron emission tomography scanner and a computed tomography scanner, as well as a radiation isolation unit...

Cartwright delivers first 100 days address, announces two new scholarships

Stephi Smith • November 19, 2017

At Chancellor Alexander Cartwright’s “University for Missouri: A Commitment to Student Success” address at the Reynolds Alumni Center on Wednesday to mark his first 100 days as chancellor, he announced...