Leaders of the University of Missouri System are considering layoffs, unpaid leave and other ways to contain costs due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. University of Missouri System President Mun Choi said in a statement ...

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A former journalism professor at the University of Missouri claims in a lawsuit that she was dismissed from the university’s School of Journalism because of her sex and age. According to the lawsuit, Dean David Kurpius was required to lay ...

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The University of Missouri is tracking all new students on campus this semester through a cellphone app to learn whether they’re attending class. It’s a test expansion of a program the university has used for four years to track class ...

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The University of Missouri will end a nine-year partnership with the Confucius Institute in August because of changing federal guidelines for the program, university officials announced this week. The institute, which is mostly funded by the Chinese Ministry of Education, ...

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Researchers with the University of Missouri are getting a head start on growing hemp in in order to collect information to help farmers who plan to grow the state’s newest cash crop in the spring. It was been illegal to ...

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When Kevin McDonald arrived on an MU campus roiled by racial protest, he thought he was in for a challenge that would keep him here at least a little longer than his last job at the Rochester Institute of Technology, ...

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A small Michigan college with well-known conservative supporters is suing the University of Missouri over a multi-million bequest designed to promote an economic theory that espouses free markets and argues the government’s only role should be to defend people and ...

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  The University of Missouri system is suing a pharmacy professor at its Kansas City campus over allegations he stole and sold a student’s research, claiming that the school is the rightful owner of the work it believes could be ...

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Santarus and the University of Missouri accused the generic drugmaker Par Pharmaceutical of infringing five U.S. patents for the heartburn medicine Zegerid as a nonjury trial began in federal court. Santarus, a San Diego-based company that licenses the patents from ...

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