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MizzouForward

What is MizzouForward?

MizzouForward is a transformational effort to strengthen innovation in research disciplines that will move the needle in the university’s work to improve lives around the world—and it all begins with the right people. This first-of-its-kind initiative starts with an investment in up to 150 new world-class faculty hires over the next five years.

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We're seeking exceptional faculty to move MizzouForward

Move your research forward

We’re seeking applications and nominations for outstanding faculty candidates, and we need your help.

A successful MizzouForward candidate is a research leader with a passion for collaboration and the grit to address our world’s most pressing research challenges. The colleagues we’re looking to recruit possess:

  • A proven track record of active, external research funding, particularly from federal agencies
  • A research agenda that complements the goals of MizzouForward
  • A robust publication and citation record
  • National awards and honors, membership with national academies
  • An interdisciplinary scope of work

If you’re interested in learning more, or if you know an exceptional investigator who can help us address national health, scientific and social priority areas through innovation and collaboration; we want to hear from you. Faculty ready to move MizzouForward should apply now.

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Priority Areas

MizzouForward faculty recruitment will occur in the following high-priority areas that will help us hone our research efforts, tackle grand challenges, align to institutional strengths and reach top-rank university status. View all MizzouForward faculty and their research areas here.

Biomedical Research and Health

We’re seeking exceptional faculty to move Mizzou forward in national scientific priority areas through innovation and collaboration in precision health areas such as translation/implementation science; cardiometabolic health; cancer & immunology; Autism Spectrum Disorders/neurodiversity. To further interdisciplinary collaboration, the university will focus on several areas of research.

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Social Science

MizzouForward faculty will help advance innovation and address access in health and education and beyond. To help support this effort, the university will focus on several areas of research.

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Engineering

We are seeking innovative faculty to build on existing strengths in energy, including nuclear science and energy and nuclear-engineered materials, the MU Research Reactor (MURR), the Materials Science and Engineering Institute (MSEI), Center for Geospatial Intelligence (CGI), and Center for Cybersecurity. Incoming faculty will also have the opportunity to collaborate with research colleagues currently supporting the UM System’s NextGen Precision Health initiative.

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Business

We are seeking leading-edge faculty to join the Trulaske College of Business in order to cultivate knowledge that informs and influences businesses and policymakers of today and the future.

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Arts & Humanities

Researchers in the arts and humanities are driven by questions about the human condition and the stories and interpretations that help us understand them. Mizzou is focused on publicly engaged arts and humanities and the real-world impact of our collaborative and interdisciplinary research and creative work.

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Upcoming Events

Apr 29

Faculty Excellence Week Kickoff

May 1

Focus on the Fulbright Specialist Program

May 1

Faculty Excellence Week: Faculty Book Authors Celebration
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Questions?

  • Carrie Nicholson – Mizzou Forward Project Manager, Senior Director Provost Office
  • Anna Wiedermann – HR Director – Strategic Recruitment
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