Members of the eight Missouri and Illinois research institutions forming the Taylor Geospatial Institute are joined by Andrew C. Taylor (pictured in the middle), executive chairman of Enterprise Holdings Inc. and founding chair of Greater St. Louis Inc. The Taylor Geospatial Institute is funded by a legacy investment by Taylor with supporting investments from each of the eight member institutions. Also pictured, second from right, is Dr. Tom Spencer, vice chancellor for research at the University of Missouri.
The University of Missouri has joined seven other Midwest research institutions to form the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a St. Louis-based geospatial research alliance that will advance the science of location through multi-institutional, interdisciplinary collaborations to create innovative, real-world solutions to societal grand challenges.
Announced April 21, the institute’s collaborative research and training environment will focus on food security, core geospatial science and computation, geospatial health and national security.
Besides MU, the other seven institutions that will collaborate at the Taylor Geospatial Institute are the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Harris-Stowe State University, Missouri University of Science & Technology, Saint Louis University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis.
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