Four Mizzou Faculty Receive Prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2024-2025
Christina Carney Dan Edidin Brian Silvey Robert Walker by Jade Elwess Four MU faculty members from a wide range of disciplines have received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State…
Matthew Martens appointed Mizzou provost and executive vice chancellor
Following an extensive national search, University of Missouri President Mun Choi has appointed Matthew Martens to the position of provost and executive vice chancellor. Martens has served as interim provost since February 2024 and brings eight years of senior leadership…
Deb Ward Retires from Rewarding Career at the University Libraries
The faculty authors event in Ellis Library is part of Faculty Excellence Week April 27, 2023. Sam O’Keefe/University of Missouri Deb Ward In November 2023, Deb Ward announced her retirement from the role as vice provost for libraries and university…
Office of the Provost News April 2024
Applications are now being accepted for the SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Program. This program is intended to enhance faculty collaboration between SEC member universities. It gives faculty from one SEC institution the opportunity to travel to another SEC campus to…
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 Thomas Phillips – Emeritus Eric Sandvol Marjorie Skubic – Emerita Carsten Ullrich Henry Wan…
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…