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The nine-member Board of Curators has seven graduates from the flagship campus in Columbia and none from UMSL, UMKC and Missouri S&T combined. During a meeting last week in Rolla, the curators made changes to the pension system.
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K-State and KU women are going to the NCAA tournament, and Mizzou almost made it. Future tournaments look even more hopeful thanks to "a lot of talent" at high schools across the Midwest.
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In the Kansas City area, universities have been some of the most prominent sponsors of the public charter schools. But in just the past few years, several ended the relationships or saw charter schools removed by the state.
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Music therapy can reduce stress in premature infants and help them recover from medical procedures. University of Missouri researchers are now studying whether music therapy also affects their long-term brain development.
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Nonpoint source pollution is the biggest threat to water quality today — but the Clean Water Act isn’t fully capable of tackling it, two Mizzou researchers say.
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University of Missouri Health Care is pulling nurses from administrative positions and other jobs to cover clinic shifts, in order to keep up with the record number of COVID-19 patients.
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The Board of Curators' decision not to require masks comes as the state experiences the worst COVID-19 infection rates it has seen since the start of the pandemic.
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A federal judge issued an injunction to delay the implementation of a nationwide vaccine mandate covering federal contractors.
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Missouri experts say omicron's mutations are concerning, but make the COVID variant easier to detectThe first U.S. omicron case was identified Wednesday — about a week after its discovery in South Africa. While there are concerns about the variant’s transmissibility, the number of mutations it possesses make it easier to detect than other strains.
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Certain individual freedoms are fundamental rights in America, but those rights are not limitless. Ethicists say society has an obligation not to do harm to others.
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The U.S. imports a lot of chestnuts, and there is an opportunity for more of them to be homegrown. (This encore story originally was published Oct. 15, 2021.)
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The fossils of the now-extinct worms had been tucked away for decades in the University of Kansas paleontology collection before researchers reexamined them.