Research

This is a photo of glasses in front of several computer monitors.

Aug. 20, 2019

Preventing privacy leaks when online data can be gathered publicly

MU researcher shares a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation with the University of Illinois-Chicago and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

New banks can choose one of three federal regulators to oversee them.

Aug. 19, 2019

Banks can choose their own regulators, but their motives are not always pure, new MU study finds

Having a federal regulator can suggest a high level of oversight that may not exist.

Jenny Bossaller, the Library Information Science Program Chair in the MU College of Education, is leading a project to train and embed health librarians into underserved and rural communities in the Midwest.

Aug. 15, 2019

MU to train health librarians to serve in rural and underserved communities

12 trained health librarians will be embedded in their own communities throughout the Midwest.

Aug. 14, 2019

New method rapidly detects invisible dangers to food

MU researchers’ biosensor can detect a small presence of salmonella in food in just hours.

This is a picture of Chris Lorson

Aug. 13, 2019

Building knowledge into treatment

More than $1 million of NIH grants will help MU professor further neurodegenerative disease research.

Examples of fossilized crocodile teeth.

Aug. 13, 2019

No teeth cleaning needed: Crocodiles shed old teeth, grow new ones

MU study finds that even fossilized plant-eating crocodiles replaced their teeth.

drone shot of traditions plaza and tiger plaza during the summer

Aug. 12, 2019

MU designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research

The program promotes higher education and research in cyber defense of America's national information infrastructure.

drone shot of jesse hall with the columns in detail on the right side of the photo

Aug. 8, 2019

Investment will help Mizzou researchers tackle ‘grand challenges’

More than a dozen innovative projects will receive an infusion of funds through strategic investments announced today.

Patricka Williams-Simon, a doctoral fellow in biological sciences at MU who led the study, places fruit flies into a box to study how well they learn and remember. She and the team discovered some fruit flies learn better than others.

Aug. 7, 2019

Why so fly: MU scientists discover some fruit flies learn better than others

Scientists use fruit flies to find nine new genes associated with learning and memory, many of which are similar in people.

Russell now checks Signature’s heartbeat daily with a stethoscope and is hoping to perform with him in the national dressage show this fall.

July 23, 2019

Heartbeat hero

MU College of Veterinary Medicine helps athletic horse recover from irregular heartbeat.

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