2024 Faculty Recognition Awards Ceremony
Award Recipients UM System Awards 2023 Curators’ Distinguished Professorships Jerry Atwood – Emeritus Elizabeth Bryda Michelle Cecil – Emerita Jianlin (Jack) Cheng Zhiqiang Hu Erica Lembke Blake Meyers Thomas Phillips – Emeritus Eric Sandvol Marjorie Skubic – Emerita Carsten Ullrich…
Q & A with Jonathan Cisco
Q&A With Jonathan Cisco, Director of Educational Assessment Jonathan Cisco returned to Mizzou in February to serve as MU’s inaugural Director of Educational Assessment, a position created to support faculty and department chairs. As the Director of Educational Assessment, Dr.
SEC Academic Leaders Visit Mizzou
MU’s Office of the Provost Hosts Visiting Academic Leaders from SEC Universities by Jade Elwess Jeni Hart, Cooper Drury and Lori Popejoy speaking on a panel about leadership Interim Provost Matt Martens and the MU ALDP fellows Tom Spencer, John…
Priorities as Your Interim Provost
Colleagues, This marks my first week as your interim provost. I am a proud alum – I received my doctorate from MU – and have spent most of my academic career at this university. It is at MU where, as…
Provost Leadership Program: Developing MU’s Next Academic Leaders
Jeff Bryan of the College of Veterinary Medicine was in the 2020-21 PLP. Photo by Hanna Caldwell Panelists discuss conflict resolution at the January PLP meeting The Provost Leadership Program (PLP) is a professional development program coordinated by the Office…
January 2024 Newsletter
Welcome back and Happy New Year. This is my last newsletter to you fellow Tigers. As you know, I have accepted the role of Chancellor at Indiana University in Indianapolis starting Feb 12, 2024. That will mark almost exactly five…
2024 Call for Proposals: Enhancing Student Success at Mizzou
As part of MizzouForward initiative’s work to strengthen student success, funding up to $100,000 per award is now available to support efforts that enhance teaching and learning. Deans, department chairs and other unit heads with a direct focus on student…
Faculty Connections
A Supportive Community for Faculty at Mizzou Caroline Kopot at Connection by Jade Elwess Caroline Kopot joined the Department of Textile and Apparel Management (TAM) in fall 2020 as an assistant professor during the pandemic. She moved to Missouri from Georgia…
Shining Brighter Together: Two Anthropologists Explore the Spirit World in New Book
by Jade Elwess Photos by Hanna Caldwell Mid-career cohort faculty fellowship program helped set foundation for book success Mizzou has a rich history of campus ghost stories, many of which take place in the Chancellor’s Residence. Alice Read, wife…
Office of the Provost News October 2023
Provost Ramchand presenting the Mizzou Medal of Distinction to George Smith George Smith, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biological sciences, was recently awarded the Mizzou Medal of Distinction at the College of Arts and Sciences Welcome Back reception. Faculty Authors:…