BusinessWeek names Columbia startup-friendly
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Featured, News, News & Events
By: Justin Willett, The Columbia Daily Tribune
BusinessWeek has named Columbia the best small city in Missouri for startups.
The publication picked one “small city” from each state and highlighted a startup that chose to locate in that city.
BusinessWeek set out to find the best small cities for startups in each state, aiming primarily to profile places [Click Here]
Priestley Medalist M. Frederick Hawthorne has some unfinished business
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in News & Events
March 23, 2009 Chemical & Engineering News
As a tribute to MU’s Fred Hawthorne, Northwestern’s Mirkin created this nanolithograph of Hawthorne and a polyhedral borane. The background image is a series of nanostructures—16-mercaptohexadecanoic acid on a gold surface—made by polymer pen lithography and imaged by optical microscopy. The inset was made by dip-pen nanolithography in which [Click Here]
Life Sciences Week at Mizzou
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in Events, News, News & Events
Missouri Life Sciences Week 2009
April 13-17, 2009
Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri-Columbia campus
Missouri Life Sciences Week is an annual event held at the University of Missouri in the Bond Life Sciences Center celebrating life sciences research, education and technology transfer at MU and throughout Missouri.
It’s a power-packed week featuring seminars by internationally-acclaimed scientists, a two-day [Click Here]
Jefferson City to host Stage 4 Finish of the 3rd “Tour of Missouri” Bike Race
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in News, News & Events
From: www.tourofmissouri.com
Jefferson City is the Capital City of Missouri, located on the banks of the Missouri River amidst rolling hills, majestic architecture and towering river bluffs in a small-town setting filled with historic charm. In addition to being the seat of state government, Jefferson City with a population of 40,000 is home to over 140 [Click Here]
Linn State Tech Nuclear Technology Program Receives International Optimas Award
Friday, March 20th, 2009 Posted in News, News & Events
From: www.linnstate.edu
Linn State Technical College’s Nuclear Technology program was awarded the 2008 Optimas Award for Vision by Workforce Management Magazine. Dr. Donald Claycomb, LSTC President and Bruce Meffert, Nuclear Technology Department Chair, received this international award at the Workforce Management’s Talent Management Conference held in New York City on October 28.
The Optimas Award recognizes workforce [Click Here]
Emerging Issues & Trends in Real Estate Forum
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Events, News, News & Events
2009 Emerging Issues & Trends in Real Estate Forum
Thursday, April 2, 2009
8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Reynolds Alumni Center, Columbia, Missouri
Founded in 2005, the Jeffrey E. Smith Institute of Real Estate was established in the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business to help prepare students pursuing careers or interested in learning more about commercial real [Click Here]
Mizzou wins Big 12 basketball tournament title
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Luke Thompson, the Columbia Missourian
It was a long, difficult road to the Big 12 tournament title for Missouri’s three senior starters, but the final minute couldn’t have been much easier.
DeMarre Carroll, Leo Lyons and Matt Lawrence spent the first 39 minutes earning the Tigers’ 73-60 win over the Baylor Bears on Saturday in Oklahoma [Click Here]
Site selection consultant presents program on industry trends
Saturday, March 7th, 2009 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Jefferson City Chamber Today staff
While location, location, location is key in the real estate world, preparation is one of the most important factors in economic development.
“Being prepared creates a competitive advantage for communities that want to attract new business,” said Mark Sweeney, site selection consultant with McCallum Sweeney Consultants based in Greenville, SC. “Community [Click Here]
Research park at MU set to grow fivefold
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Laura Latzko, The Columbia Daily Tribune
The University of Missouri’s Discovery Ridge Research Park in south Columbia is expanding to five times its current size.
The fledgling research park on MU’s South Farm property between Highway 63 and Rolling Hills Road is now home to two scientific buildings: pharmaceutical company Analytical Bio-Chemistry Laboratories Inc. and the [Click Here]
Power plant bill advances in legislature
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in News, News & Events
By: Terry Ganey, The Columbia Daily Tribune
In tough economic times, it’s hard to vote against a proposal that could lead to the construction of a $6 billion power plant.
That attitude prevailed yesterday when a House committee gave lopsided approval to AmerenUE’s proposal to charge customers in advance for a second nuclear-powered generating plant in Callaway [Click Here]