Community Impact

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May 15, 2020

Checking in during COVID-19

As her time at Mizzou ends, one journalism student is helping provide community-specific information about COVID-19.

colorful fresh produce in baskets

May 15, 2020

COVID-19 safety tips for volunteers delivering food

A University of Missouri Extension food safety specialist offers safety suggestions for volunteers delivering food to those in need during the COVID-19 era.

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May 14, 2020

Softening COVID-19’s impact

A team at MU is collaborating with Black & Veatch to adapt a biosensor to detect COVID-19 in wastewater.

May 13, 2020

Missourians are hungry

New 2019 Missouri Hunger Atlas shows where public and private programs can do better.

Research Engineering Technician Ghassan Al Bahhash mills the face shields out of square stock at the College of Engineering.

May 11, 2020

MU partners with community to produce face shields

The MU College of Engineering is helping manufacture face shields for first responders and health care workers at no cost. So far, they've made more than 1,700 masks.

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May 11, 2020

MU CARES launches COVID-19 Testing Dashboard

The online mapping and charting tool provides a graphical look at COVID-19 testing in each state. Its data helps address questions about reopening economies, supporting communities and safeguarding public health.

May 7, 2020

Start-ups soar

Mizzou researchers’ discoveries launch businesses that move science to the market.

freeman family of four

May 6, 2020

Two generations of Tigers making a difference during COVID-19

The Freeman family is performing acts of kindness for essential workers in the Chicago area.

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May 5, 2020

MU researchers explore compounds to treat COVID-19

In the midst of a global pandemic, an interdisciplinary collaboration is in pursuit of life-changing precision health advancements and research that could potentially treat COVID-19.

May 4, 2020

Changing lanes

Basketball allows MU alumnus to become physician; now he’s on the front line of COVID-19.

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