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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

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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.

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April 2, 2021

Audio-enhanced storybooks can improve vocabulary of at-risk preschoolers

MU researcher develops interactive strategy to help youth with limited vocabularies.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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