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Web exclusive: Help for healthy eating
Melinda Hemmelgarn is passionate about helping children make healthy food choices.
Prepare, don't panic
Media chatter about bird flu has slowed, but it's still a legitimate global threat.
Mapping Missouri's past
Sometimes a map can convey information in ways that words and numbers can't, says Walter Schroeder, associate professor emeritus of geography.
Web exclusive: Freshman 5,000
Freshman Mike Guinn got some assistance from his parents and Mizzou staff as he moved his essentials of college life into the Gillett Hall dorm room.
Web exclusive: Worming his way into medicine
Jordan Marshall plans to be a doctor, but for now, he's happy to be a worm curator.
Professor heads to war
A finance professor who urges his students to seek work experience through internships and travel has gone to extremes for his own work in the field.
MU attempts to compete
Faced with critical financial needs, campus leaders have drawn up a three-year plan — called Compete Missouri — that by July 2008 will raise $7 million a year through cost savings, new revenues and by not filling many vacant job positions.
Building honors pioneering professor
The General Classroom Building (GCB) was dedicated as Strickland Hall Oct. 19 to honor Arvarh Strickland.
Web exclusive: The sound of cancer
An MU scientist has developed a method for measuring deadly skin cancer using lasers that can detect a mere 10 melanoma cells in a blood sample.
Web exclusive: Expert encourages water conservation
Missourians need to take water conservation seriously now — before water shortages become a serious problem.
Blues and BBQ
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Boone County National Bank is hosting a downtown Columbia birthday bash.