Small-Town Business Owners Leave $8 Million;
MU Creates Large Scholarship Fund
The owners of a legendary furniture store left Mizzou a record-breaking gift that will help students pay for their education. The estate of MU alumna Margaret Waters Jordan and her husband, Gerald, included an $8 million gift to Mizzou and MU Health Care, $5.3 million of which is the largest unrestricted gift in the University’s history. MU leaders have dedicated $2.7 million of the unrestricted gift to a scholarship fund. Read more

Where Science Goes to Work
The University is launching mid-Missouri’s first research park on a site at MU’s South Farm. It’s called Discovery Ridge, and the park’s first partner will be a research firm with longstanding ties to Mizzou. Read more

Do Exercise Benefits Counteract
Being Overweight?
A $1.2 million National Institutes of Health grant will fund a College of Human Environmental Sciences study investigating whether people who regain weight they’ve lost are worse off than before they lost the weight. Read more

MU Professor Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
English Professor and poet Scott Cairns recently won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for his exceptional achievements and future work in examining the intersection of literature and religion. Learn more and listen to Cairns read excerpts of his poetry.

MU School of Medicine, Cerner
Launch Innovative Partnership
Kansas City-based Cerner will partner with the MU School of Medicine to bring new health-care information technologies into the classroom for the next generation of physicians. Read more

Aspiring Entrepreneurs Can Choose
From Many Mizzou Programs
While some entrepreneurs are hoping to strike it rich, others want to improve the world with their ideas. No matter where their aspirations lie, these entrepreneurs have many programs and courses from which to choose at Mizzou. Read more

What’s Your Opinion?
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May Grads Join Mizzou Alumni Family
More than 4,500 new graduates joined MU’s 239,000 living alumni in May. The MU Alumni Association is keeping them connected through such events as Senior Sendoff, which had 1,300 attendees. Help recent grads keep Mizzou in their lives by giving them the gift of membership.

Association Reaches Out Overseas
This spring University officials and alumni attended events in Bangkok and Hat Yai, Thailand, where they heard about Mizzou’s plans to strengthen relationships with international alumni. Read more

Modern-Day Noah Began His Journey at Mizzou
Jeffrey Bonner, BA ’75, gave a lecture at Mizzou this spring about zoos of the future, a topic covered in his book Sailing With Noah. As president and CEO of the Saint Louis Zoo, Bonner heads one of the top four zoos in the nation. Read more

MU Cheer Squads Among Nation’s 10 Best
The all-women and coed MU cheerleading squads both placed in the top 10 at the recent National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate Competition in Daytona Beach, Fla. This marks the sixth consecutive year the squads have been in the nation’s top 10. Read more

Athletes Receive Academic Honors
More than 50 percent of MU’s nearly 500 student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher in 2005. MU also led the Big 12 Conference in Academic Progress Rate (APR) in 2005, and ranked first in the nation with six NCAA postgraduate scholarship winners in 2004-05. Read more

MU Tennis Duo Selected
for Big 12 Anniversary Team
Katka Sevcikova and Ursa Juric have been selected for the Big 12 Conference women’s 10th Anniversary Team. The pair was the most successful women’s tennis doubles team in MU history. Read more

Which of the following breakthroughs are attributable to university-based research?

A) Laser Eye Surgery
B) Bone Marrow Transplant
C) Genetic Testing
D) All of the above

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