Community Impact

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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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May 4, 2020

MU researcher identifies four possible treatments for COVID-19

One of the antivirals, remdesivir, was recently FDA approved while the other three remain under study.

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April 30, 2020

Feeling anxiety? Reverse-engineering the brain could help

The anxiety you may be feeling right now in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic stems back to our prehistoric need to survive.

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April 29, 2020

Task force creates equipment to protect health care workers

A multi-disciplinary team is creating respirator masks worn by doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists to guard against infection from airborne viruses.

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April 29, 2020

Meals for healing

MU Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology staff prepares meals for health care workers fighting COVID-19.

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April 28, 2020

Expert: How to protect your personal information on social media from hackers during COVID-19

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April 28, 2020

MU develops program to prepare for alternative care site staffing

MU is leading a statewide effort to retrain and deploy retired nurses and other health care providers to alternative care sites for recovering COVID-19 patients.

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April 28, 2020

Kits offer learning activities for kids without internet access

Thanks to generous community support, MU Extension is creating educational activity kits and coordinating delivery to kids who lack internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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