April 7, 2021
MU College of Engineering professor awarded 2021 Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence
Heather Hunt is an associate professor of biological, biomedical and chemical engineering at MU and a strategic initiatives fellow at the University of Missouri System’s Office of eLearning.
April 7, 2021
Understanding why people engage in ‘extreme’ drinking
Addiction experts at the University of Missouri are using a 5-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to gather data on this topic, widely regarded as a public health issue.
April 6, 2021
MU prepares for full capacity classes in Fall 2021
April 5, 2021
Understanding how cancer can relapse
University of Missouri researchers discover a novel cell-to-cell communication network that helps tumors regrow following treatment.
April 2, 2021
Audio-enhanced storybooks can improve vocabulary of at-risk preschoolers
MU researcher develops interactive strategy to help youth with limited vocabularies.
March 30, 2021
Everyone poops: Monitoring COVID-19 in wastewater
University of Missouri scientists receive $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine clues about the rate of infection in communities and virus variants.
March 29, 2021
MU Chess Team wins International Chess Federation’s World University Online Blitz Cup team championship
MU’s team also finished runner-up in the rapid team competition and took home five individual awards.
March 25, 2021
University of Missouri adds advanced electron microscopes to NextGen Precision Health building
Collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific to focus on materials and life science research and STEM education.
March 25, 2021
A new way to visualize mountains of biological data
Researchers led by the University of Missouri create a new method for analyzing large amounts of biological data to help scientists draw faster conclusions for possible treatments.
March 24, 2021
Landfills full of dangerous pollutants: MU researchers can tell you which ones are worst
In partnership with the USDA Forest Service, researchers developed a system to prioritize the most toxic pollutants.