Research

Group of students with balloons

April 27, 2026

Show Me Research Week highlights student work from across campus

A split image of marcello mogetta, half professor and half explorer of ancient cultures

April 27, 2026

Mizzou archaeologist digs up long‑buried Roman secrets

Marcello Mogetta balances excavations of ancient cities in Italy with classroom instruction, helping students and fellow researchers better understand the Roman Empire and its legacy.

record spilling out of record sleeve

April 24, 2026

Play. Pause. Preserve.

The Budds Center for American Music Studies blends scholarship and listening to keep the state’s analog records alive.

April 24, 2026

Lighting the way

Mizzou’s new Center for Rural Energy Security applies a practical Midwestern perspective to rural energy policy, challenges and opportunities.

Haojing Yan

April 24, 2026

Cosmic misfits revealed

University of Missouri researchers discovered nine unusual objects in space that look like stars but behave like galaxies — challenging what we know about the cosmos.

illustration of soccer player heading a wrecking ball

April 24, 2026

Physics of the header

A Mizzou researcher examines the risks of repeatedly heading the ball in soccer.

Kiho Lee posing in a lab.

April 22, 2026

Unlocking a sustainable way to edit chicken genes

A Mizzou researcher is working to create chickens that hatch useful medical proteins.

Researchers who study the flu posing.

April 22, 2026

At Mizzou’s influenza center, researchers are developing better flu treatments

The NextGen Center for Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases is expanding to advance studies on how the virus spreads — and how to stop it.

James Stannard standing in front of a computer screen.

April 20, 2026

Sterilizing surgical implants with neutrons could reduce infections

Mizzou researchers have created a new way to kill bacteria that gets trapped within surgical implants.

Kishan Biradar

April 16, 2026

Mizzou researchers turn up the heat on tomatoes

Show Me Research Week project focuses on why tomatoes don’t produce the compound that gives peppers their spice.

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