Biodiesel plant nearing completion in Moberly
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Connie Duvall, Moberly Monitor-Index
The cold weather gripping Randolph County in the final days of 2008 hasn’t deterred the construction team on site at one of the area’s newest industries. Producers’ Choice Soy Energy LLC, an investor-owned biodiesel and soy crush facility in Moberly, expects to be processing biodiesel in the next two months. [Click Here]
Sinclair Research Adds 25 Jobs in Fulton
Friday, December 19th, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Roger Meissen, The Fulton Sun
A business in Callaway County will receive a boost in the next year thanks to a state grant program.
Sinclair Research Center, Inc. - located in the northwest corner of the county - will receive nearly $250,000 for road improvements that will benefit the business and the county.
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Fasco To Close Eldon Plant
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Charis Patires, GateHouse News Service
On the heels of an announcement that the largest employer in Eldon will shut its doors, city officials are scrambling to find out what can be done to limit the number of unemployed and minimize the widespread impact it is expected to have on the rest of the community.
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Eldon’s largest employer to close
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Charis Patires, GateHouse News Service
On the heels of an announcement that the largest employer in Eldon will shut its doors, city officials are scrambling to find out what can be done to limit the number of unemployed and minimize the widespread impact it is expected to have on the rest of the community.
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MU Researchers Achieve Remarkable Success in Bioinformatics
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
MU researchers achieved remarkable success in the high-profile CASP, which is a community-wide experiment on critical assessment of techniques for protein structure prediction, an important bioinformatics topic. The eighth CASP just had a meeting in the past few days. The meeting invited successful predictors among 100+ teams worldwide to give talks. Two major categories of [Click Here]
University of Missouri Research rates High in New Awards from NSF
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
According to the National Science Foundation’s Division of Integrated Organismal Systems budget information, the University of Missouri ranked fifth of all universities in the country for new awards in fiscal year 2008. MU was 19th in total funding.
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Mizzou Dedicates New Nanotech Center
Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Christian Basi
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) may be too complex for most individuals to understand. However, Fred Hawthorne has been working on this therapy for more than 30 years, and the director of the new University of Missouri International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine (I2NM2) says that BNCT may one day be the [Click Here]