The Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mount Vernon will be closed by MU Health Care on Oct. 31 due to uncertain funding, competing facilities in Springfield and Joplin, decreased number of patients, and...

The UM System Board of Curators announced Wednesday that it approved an extension of UM President Tim Wolfe’s contract, which was previously scheduled to run until February 15, 2015. The new contract...

The Department of Defense named MU’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute and Center for Physical and Power Electronics preferred contractors. The new partnership will allow MU to sidestep the...

The National Science Foundation recently announced a $20 million grant to a multi-institutional research project called "The Missouri Transect: Climate, Plants and Community." The project will look at...

The Mizzou Alumni Association has named MU alunnus and attorney W. Dudley McCarter as its new president. McCarter graduated from the School of Law in 1975 and later went on to co-found [Behr, McCarter...

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...

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...

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...