News and Announcements
Dedication and grit
Recently, veterans with service-connected disabilities from 13 states participated in Mizzou's entrepreneurship bootcamp, a program that empowers them to employ higher education skills, resources and infrastructure to boost their businesses. Only eight universities in the U.S. offer the program.
Celebrate Bond LSC anniversary
Time flies when you’re partnering in the pursuit of research, and on Sept. 26, Bond Life Sciences Center celebrates 20 years of working together to tackle humanity’s most pressing challenges.
New genomics tool
Reading genetic code is now quicker and less expensive with the newly acquired NovaSeq X, left, the most powerful and advanced DNA sequencer available from Illumina. The new instrument has been in production and generating data since July 1.
MU, UMKC to lead SECURE Center
Michele Kennett, associate vice chancellor for research compliance and integrity, is working with University of Missouri-Kansas City to establish and run one of five NSF-backed regional centers charged with safeguarding the U.S. research enterprise.
Meet Mizzou’s new faculty fellows
Last spring, 47 faculty learned they were accepted as 2024-26 fellows in three programs that provide sustained support to help them reach their goals in teaching, research, scholarship and creative pursuits.
Virologist heads infectious disease lab
Anthony Griffiths joins the Mizzou research ranks as new director of the Laboratory for Infectious Disease Research and principal investigator at the Bond Life Sciences Center. Read about his biocontainment experience and plans to advance viral research.
Where research and people meet
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.
Unveiling Missouri dialects
Matthew Gordon used voice recordings of Missourians born as early as 1884 to study how our speech has changed since then.
The patent puzzle
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.
The power of iron
In “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” Ron Mittler reveals how mitochondria in muscle cells fail to generate energy when one iron-sulfur protein is removed. His work could lead to treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and age-related muscle deterioration.