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President's Highlights - February 2023

Big Impacts and Continuing Support

We finished 2022 with strength and pride, as the stories below demonstrate. That is especially evident when you consider our . The partnerships we have made with local and state stakeholders continue to shape Missouri's future for the better. This report is a powerful tool and shows how our university contributes to statewide success and outreach in all 114 counties of Missouri.

Our state’s leadership recognizes the value Ë¿¹Ïapp brings to the state as well. Missouri’s legislature approved a supportive budget that includes a 7% increase to core funding – the largest increase in 25 years. In addition, Ë¿¹Ïapp received $117 million from the governor’s budget for our priority capital projects.

Let’s continue to achieve excellence together in 2023.


Commencement

Ë¿¹Ïapp System Fall Commencement 2022

All four Ë¿¹Ïapp System universities recognized graduates during Fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies.


Students

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The 2022 Crescendo event raised more than $650,000 to support Conservatory student scholarships. Approximately 1,000 people attended the gala and performance at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

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Research

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The James S. McDonnell Foundation awarded a six-year, $4 million grant to Associate Professor Natalie Bolton and co-principal investigators Phyllis Balcerzak and Chanua Ross to establish the St. Louis Translational Fellowships in Education, which will focus on embedding science of learning best practices in daily K-12 instruction.

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Community

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Cynthia Chapple, founder of Black Girls Do STEM, will give a presentation at Missouri S&T Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. as a featured speaker during the university's Black History Month celebration.

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Accolades

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Prather, a Curators' Distinguished Professor in the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, is one of only 169 academic inventors to receive the prestigious honor this year.

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Reviewed 2023-02-08