Tag: Mizzou
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MU Health Care To Host Drive-Thru Vaccination Event Saturday In Columbia
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― MU Health Care will offer the second of its three Columbia flu and COVID vaccination clinics this Saturday, Oct. 12. The event at South Providence Medical Park in Columbia will offer car-side flu shots to adults and kids 6 months and older from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Updated COVID vaccines will be available for…
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Evening With Mizzou In Mexico At Audrain County Historical Society
An evening with Mizzou will be taking place this week in Mexico at the Audrain County Historical Society. Tony Robertson, president of the Audrain County Alumni Association says they will be honoring this years scholarship recipients and will have a special guest speaker. The event takes place on Thursday, May 11 from 5pm to 7pm…
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KXEO Sports Report 3/29/23
In their final spring training game of the year yesterday, the Royals lost to the Rangers 5 – 3. Today is an off day for the major leagues but all 30 teams are back in action tomorrow on opening day for the first time since 1968. The Blue Jays come to St. Louis with Miles…
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MU Health Care Has New CEO
The University of Missouri is announcing a new CEO for MU Health Care. Ric Ransom will assume the duties on May 1st. Ransom comes to MU from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals in the Madison Region and has previously worked in health leadership roles in South Carolina, Memphis, Atlanta, Boston and Dallas over the past…
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KXEO Sports Report 2/9/23
Former Mizzou standout Steve Stipanovich is being named a 2023 Allstate SEC Basketball Legend. The 7 foot center from St. Louis is a 1983 All-American and the 1983 Big Eight Player of the Year who steered four consecutive conference championships for the Tigers from 1980 to 1983 and two Sweet 16 appearances along with back-to-back…
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University of Missouri Student Not Facing Discipline Over Racist Message
A Mizzou student who sent a a racist Snapchat message to a friend will not face punishment by the university. In a letter to the campus community, President Mun Choi said that after the university learned of the message, it was investigated and after review, found that it was sent to a friend of the…
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Marching Mizzou To Lead Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
An annual Thanksgiving Day tradition will include Marching Mizzou this year. Marching Mizzou is one of a dozen bands marching in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade that steps off from West 77th Street and Central Park West and in fact will lead the parade. When the band gets to Macy’s Herald Square, they’ll perform an…
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Mizzou Gears Up For 111th Homecoming Celebration
Mizzou is gearing up for their 111th Homecoming with a number of activities ahead of tomorrow’s game. Tonight (Friday), house decs will be on full display in Greek Town between Rollins Street and Kentucky Boulevard from 6:30 until 9:00. Food trucks will be in the area as well. At 8:30 tonight, Traditions Plaza is the…
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KXEO Sports Report 10/11/22
A former Mizzou defensive coordinator is now the interim coach of the Carolina Panthers. The Panthers fired head coach Matt Rhule yesterday following a 37 – 15 loss to the 49ers Sunday. Defensive pass game coordinator and secondary coach Steve Wilks will serve as interim coach. Wilks joined Mizzou in January of 2021 and returned…
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Mizzou to Work Tying Research to Production for the Aged
Mizzou announced that they received about $700,000 from the National Institutes on Aging for a program that aims to close the gap between academia and industry to meet the needs of an aging society. Academic researchers and biomedical companies have made great strides to improve the quality of life for the elderly, yet there remains…
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Siteman Cancer Center to Team Up With Ellis Fischel Cancer Center
Nationally renowned Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine and University of Missouri Health Care’s Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia are to work together. They will team up on research, grant proposals, prevention measures, and patient care. According to the press release, Siteman director Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, said…
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Mizzou Wins Biggest Grant in The History of the School
Yesterday, the University of Missouri received the largest federal research, education and extension grant ever awarded to MU –$25 million – from the USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Program. The five-year project is aimed at helping farmers, up to 500,000 acres of Missouri farmland, adopt climate-smart practices that will ultimately help improve the resiliency of…
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Mizzou Receives Substantial Grant from the CDC for the School of Social Work
The CDC awarded Mizzou a $1.6 million grant to Hsun-Ta Hsu, an associate professor in the School of Social Work, whose team will use the grant to study the firearm violence exposure among young adults experiencing homelessness and how communities can best intervene. Previous research done by the team verified that young adults dealing with…
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Mizzou Researcher Gets $6.6 Million Grant for Childrens’ Development
Laine Young-Walker, MD, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a University of Missouri School of Medicine researcher, is to receive $6.6 million from the American Rescue Plan Act to start a statewide training program on coaching methods designed to support the social and emotional development of children. The Center for Excellence in Child Well-Being will…
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Mizzou Marching Band Going to New York for the Holidays
The University of Missouri marching band has been chosen to help kick off the holiday season in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Usually ten out of approximately 100 bands compete from around the world to participate. Marching Mizzou will travel to New York City and strut their stuff for the festivities during the 96th annual…