Serving our youth
Across Missouri, the UM System is dedicated to improving communities and empowering tomorrow’s leaders. Young people are the future, and we’re ensuring they have the support needed to achieve their goals. That’s what makes this year’s UM System Extension and Engagement Week theme “All Things Youth” so important. We will focus on Missouri’s next generation and how to help them thrive, including a keynote from 2021 TIME Kid of the Year Orion Jean to headline the week. I hope to see you there.
Students
UMSL
Improving global food security through research
Biology doctoral student Ketra Oketcho has been conducting research at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center to better understand how the cassava mosaic virus replicates in cassava, a cultural staple and key to food security in her native Uganda and many other parts of Africa.
- MU doctoral candidate cultivates a love of STEM in others
- S&T student selected as national ASCE ambassador
- It's a zoo out there for UMKC Dental Hygiene Students
Research
UMKC
UMKC medicine students accepted to NIH Medical Research Scholars Program
Two UMKC School of Medicine students have been accepted into the competitive and highly respected yearlong National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program.
- $3 million grant awarded to MU researcher for leading biomedical and agricultural innovation
- Researchers at S&T demonstrate new fast-charging technology for electric vehicles
- UMSL institute awarded grant to strengthen play therapy services
Community
MU
MU School of Medicine receives $16 million to address rural physician shortage
The University of Missouri School of Medicine has received a new federal award of $16 million from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand programming aimed at addressing a shortage of physicians in rural Missouri.
- S&T Celebration of Nations is Sept. 23
- UMKC now has a football team: the Kansas City Chiefs
- UMSL awarded $2.4 million grant to help address regional inequalities
Accolades
S&T
Missouri S&T again ranked a top 10 'Best Value'
Missouri S&T is ranked sixth in the nation and first in the state of Missouri among best value universities, according to the latest rankings from the financial technology firm SmartAsset.
- Five Tigers selected for SEC Emerging Scholars Program
- UMKC undergraduate nursing and engineering programs rank 86th among the nation
- UMSL optometrists recognized as leaders in the field
Reviewed 2023-10-06