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Stoking the fires of undergraduate research

April 19-24 is Mizzou’s Undergraduate Research Week. Get to know three students who are conducting orthopedic research on campus.

Finding resiliency in local, community news gathering

Study by journalism professors at University of Missouri and University of Kansas explores impact of COVID-19 on U.S. community newspapers.

Battle to sleep

A study at the University of Missouri Department of Psychiatry is looking at treating insomnia among military veterans deployed after 9/11.

April 9, 2021

Engineers explore algorithms, materials to improve AI vision

College of Engineering researchers are looking to build stronger algorithms for artificial intelligence allowing for better ‘vision’ and extensive real-world applications.

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 7, 2021

No more red lights

Proposed system for self-driving cars makes sitting in traffic a thing of the past.

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.

picture of a lagoon at a wastewater facility

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 26, 2021

Crisis Intervention Training reduces stigma of mental illness in prisons

MU study shows new training program improves how Missouri corrections officers interact with inmates who are mentally ill.