Short stories about Mizzou's advances in health-related teaching, learning, research, economic development and clinical treatments....

Teacher pensions consume a substantial portion of school budgets. If relatively generous pensions help attract effective teachers, the expense might be justified. But new evidence suggests that current pension systems, by ...

As the 175-year anniversary approaches, the University of Missouri prepares to celebrate its stature as a global leader in teaching and research.

Although Chancellor Brady J. Deaton stepped down Nov. 15, 2013, after nine years in MU's top job, his leadership will continue on campus and at the international level....

A presidential appointment helps MU chancellor Brady J. Deaton further his lifelong goal of feeding the hungry....

Chancellor Alexander N. Cartwright's bold vision for Mizzou prioritizes innovative, hands-on student learning; embraces strategic investments in collaborative research and creative initiatives; and grows the university's ...

choices. Using regression analyses, this study asked: Are local school district taxation levies related to community, family and economic factors? Using eleven years of financial data to examine Missouri's 1993 tax-rate driven formula this study shows...

and empirical economic perspectives....

In the past decade, Australia has begun to privatize its irrigation system. Two general models have emerged: a single and a dual ownership structure. This paper examines the trade-offs, costs and benefits, and the attendant ...

The US Renewable Fuel Standard sets a lower bound on the amount of biofuels used, with consequences for behavior of agricultural commodity markets that currently supply the vast majority of feedstocks for biofuel production. ...

Venture capital moves great ideas from research labs to the open market. In the process, the world gets innovative products. new businesses hire skilled employees, and Mizzou nets royalties.

This article analyzes responses from a 2008 survey of Canadian meat consumers about concerns regarding genetically modified (GM) feed used in livestock meat production. Approximately 50% of the sampled consumers express ...

Six students take over one old house with a mission to use less and conserve more. Welcome to MU's Sustainahouse....

New campus and civic buildings, restaurants, bike lanes and public art have sprouted in Columbia....

Mizzou is turning up the volume, loud and proud. We track our latest hits and superstars - A-list researchers, human-rights heroes, entertainers and athletes who spin us right round.

Arizona is at the forefront of Latino population growth and political and racial politics. Three different factors could potentially influence the provision of library service to Latinos in the State of Arizona. These are ...

In her commentary, Tyl (2009) responded to our criticism (Myers et al. 2009) of her bisphenol A (BPA) research (Tyl et al. 2008), and she defended the reliance on Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) in animal studies concerning ...

A football star reared on the plains of Oklahoma to value toughness, hard work and competitiveness, True Son Barry Odom takes over the controls at Mizzou.

A test for the rank of a vector error correction model (VECM) or panel VECM based on the well-known trace test is proposed. The proposed test employs instrumental variables (IV's)generated by a class of nonlinear functions ...