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Three Mizzou Faculty Awarded the Millsap Distinguished Professorship

Three faculty recently received the Millsap Distinguished Professorship.

Six Faculty Selected to Further International Collaboration through the Fulbright Scholar Program

Read about the international research projects faculty will pursue though the Fulbright Scholar Program in 2025-26.

Accreditation Update

An update on our institutional accreditation status from President Choi and Provost Martens.

Inspiring Discovery: Mentorship for KC Scholars through Undergraduate Research Circles 

Lisa Dorner, Ph.D., is a mentor for two students in KC Scholars Undergraduate Research Circles. The program, funded by a MizzouForward grant and Great Jobs Kansas City, are small groups of undergraduate students from Kansas City engaged in year-long paid research opportunities with faculty mentors.

Kicking Off Faculty Excellence Week

The fourth annual Faculty Excellence Week began with the Kickoff event on April 29.

2025 Faculty Recognition Awards Ceremony

Award Recipients UM System Awards 2024 Curators’ Distinguished Professorships Prasad Calyam Baolin Deng Roman Ganta Loukas Grafakos Mengshi Lin Shelly Rodgers Haval Shirwan Bing Yang Xiaoqin Zou External Awards Highly Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Utku Asuroglu National Humanities Center Fellow

Creating a Community for Assistant Professors

The Learning and Expanding Abilities for Professoriate Cohort Fellows Program (LEAP) is a professional development program for assistant professors, both tenure track and non-tenure track, to develop their mentoring, teaching and research skills.

Faculty Excellence Week 2025

Faculty Excellence Week 2025 is April 29-May 2.

More External Awards Myths Busted

External Awards Team Serves as Mentors, Advising Faculty on Global and National Awards In part 1 of our external awards series, we busted myths surrounding prestigious and highly prestigious awards. In part 2, learn about more of the resources that…

Mizzou invests in “learning that sticks”

Learn more about a new Community of Practice of faculty who are integrating high impact practices into their curriculum. This pilot project is funded by a MizzouForward student success grant. Read more from Student Success.