University of Missouri News

Some new University of Missouri graduates are staying on campus to begin their post-college careers.

Local communities offer a wide range of summer programs for children. Highland's youth fishing club, shown here, sees trout being stocked.

Literacy Committee co-chairman, Jay Leggett, announced this year's winners of the Rotary Club of Cleveland Interact Scholarship.

ST. LOUIS - The 40th anniversary of Gypsy Caravan , the annual Memorial Day shopping fair, is on Monday at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Membership in the University of Missouri's official alumni group has been growing this year as the university heads toward a centennial Homecoming celebration.

At many high schools across America, being the valedictorian or salutatorian involves cut-throat competition.

For 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body.

According to Exploracise, a popular website for parents and educators, the skills and information retained by children during the school year are too easily forgotten during summer break.

The University of Missouri will soon be without a university press. The university announced last week that it would phase out its press, beginning in July.

Baling dry hay wasn't a problem in Missouri in mid-May, when this photo was taken.

Don Laird, president of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, announced today he will retire on January 15, 2013.A By then, Laird will have held the position for 24 years.A Chair of the Chamber board of directors, Vicki Russell, said the organization will begin a search process immediately.

The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week.

After graduating from Southaven High School tonight at Landers Center in Southaven, salutatorian Delia Wadlington has just over three months before she starts classes at the next level.

Some people try to avoid all thoughts of death but United States researchers advise thinking about death can bring out the good in people.

The happiness we experience from positive events in our lives-a new job, a new partner or buying a new house-tends to diminish over time, making the search for new sources of happiness never ending.

UM System President Tim Wolfe announced today that the University of Missouri Press, which opened in 1958, will be phased out starting July.

Spoiler alert! This story contains major spoilers from the season finale of Revenge.

A fraternity at the University of Missouri-Columbia is removing a Republican campaign banner after concerns were raised by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon's communications director.

A fraternity at the University of Missouri-Columbia is removing a Republican campaign banner after concerns were raised by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon's communications director.

A fraternity at the University of Missouri-Columbia is removing a Republican campaign banner after concerns were raised by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon's communications director.