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Supported by $9 million from the National Science Foundation, Mizzou researcher Susan Renoe and her team are bringing research discoveries to the people who fund it and benefit from it.
Matthew Gordon used voice recordings of Missourians born as early as 1884 to study how our speech has changed since then.
In 2023, Mizzou received 16 U.S. patents for a variety of inventions. See which researchers successfully navigated the complex patent process in partnership with the Technology Advancement team.
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