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Purple elderberries

Rise of the elderberry

MU Research Assistant Professor Andrew Thomas received a $5.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to move the antioxidant-rich elderberry into mainstream production and processing.

Mizzou columns on Francis Quadrangle

Transforming research

MizzouForward, a $1.5 billion investment in research and education, includes a plan to hire up to 150 new researchers and upgrades for instrumentation, high-performance computing and advanced equipment core facilities.

Hype & Stripes owner Grant Houston

Making vintage trendy

Running Hype & Stripes has taught Houston how to manage employees, comply with complicated regulations and promote his business using social media. Daily posts that feature customers and offer sneak peaks of new inventory have been very effective.

Photo of Akea Collins presenting information about her business Resume Chop Shop.

Entrepreneurship training opens the door to business ownership for veterans

MU's EBV program teaches participants key concepts of business ownership through workshops and lessons from entrepreneurial leaders and local partners. 

Georgi Gnibus outside the student center

Upcycling and repurposing

When Mizzou law student Georgiana Gnibus started her company, Rad By Design, her friends joked that she was building a “tube top empire.” Now after selling an expanded inventory of hundreds of original designs to both men and women via Instagram and winning more than $2,000 in  funding, Gnibus has opened a brick-and-mortar store in the MU Student Center.

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MU ingenuity provides solutions for a better life

Patenting an invention and using it as the foundation for a new business is never a solo endeavor, according to Jim Fay, serial inventor and keynote speaker at MU’s April 29 “Taking Your Ideas to Market” virtual event.

Jesse Hall aerial view

Bringing ideas to life

Mizzou supports faculty, staff and students involved in commercialization activities with education and training, translational research programs, industry partnerships and more. Their work fuels economic growth and improves lives in Missouri and beyond.

Photo of Gary Yao and Judith Miles in lab coats

MU Licenses Patented Screening Technology for Autism

Judith Miles, professor emerita of child health and genetics, and Gary Yao, professor of biomedical, biological and chemical engineering, developed a device and associated software that makes it possible to track and measure these movements in children at an earlier age than was previously possible.

An image of Roo Storage co-founders.

Grit and Passion

Four intense years of research, building a niche market, innovating and raising capital paid off for Roo Storage.

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Mizzou recognized as economic prosperity university

Mizzou's renewed designation is in recognition of its continued “substantive, sustainable and institution-wide commitment” to regional economic growth and opportunity.