"Here's an update on the search for a new athletic director, the report of a budget task force and football recruiting."--Table of contents for issue.

Summary: Covers the progress of recently begun mentor program uniting upperclassmen with freshmen to help them get adjusted to college.

"This popular professor sells the sizzle, as well as the science."--Table of contents for issue.

"Mizzou athletes write their own scripts for television public service announcements urging young people to take care of their minds and bodies."--Table of contents for issue.

"One rural America issue won't stay down on the farm. The farm financial crisis affects not only the 3 percent of the population involved in agricultural production. It also ripples through farm communities and to city neighbors."--Page 8...

"A Mizzou t-shirt, a tiger and a sesquicentennial banner were among the paraphernalia carried by alumnus Dick Richards as he piloted the space shuttle Columbia last summer. Richards, who has been announced as the commander of a flight in 1990...

"Synergism characterizes the relationships of married faculty members who teach or do research in the same field. Together, they often accomplish more than the sum of individual efforts."--Page 13...

"The stereotype of a Mizzou alumnus demanding the head of the football coach after a losing season makes good copy. While it may be the most common media mention of University alumni, it hardly represents the Alumni Association, which never has gone...

"Tigers' new athletic director plans closer campus ties."--Table of contents for issue.

"In many people's lives, a special teacher makes a difference."--Page 9...

"Despite the cold weather, a professor from China finds a warm welcome at Mizzou. After boning up on American history and observing present-day Americans, Wenhui Hou tells what she discovered about us."--Page 6...

"The first woman teacher of History and Principles has a proud J-School legacy to follow."--Table of contents for issue.

"Mizzou's athletic director assesses his impact on tiger sports and looks ahead, too.

"For one semester, 14 Honors College students scrutinized a small town in northern Missouri. They would write a book about it. They debated whether a town of 5,680 was small. They discussed whether the town was surviving, stagnant, lucky or coping...

"In recognition of outstanding service and accomplishments, the Alumni Association honored recipients of the 20th annual Faculty-Alumni Awards at a Sept. 18 ceremony in Columbia."--Page 18...

"The Q-and-A format is a quick read to get up-to-speed on the tax increase campaign."--Table of contents for issue.

"Some people aren't getting away with murder thanks to Dr. Sam Stout, director of MU's forensic anthropology lab. This story is reprinted from Mizzou Magic, a science magazine produced by MU for junior high and middle-school ...

"In the beginning there was fire. It started in the east wing of Academic Hall on the evening of Jan. 9, 1892. The flames spread quickly, and within a few hours the University of Missouri was devastated."--Page 8...

2011 compilation of news and events articles published by the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine....