National, State and Hometown Media Coverage
News Bureau International, National, State and Hometown Placements
The week of 06-29-09
R. Michael Roberts, curators professor of animal sciences and biochemistry; Toshihiko Ezashi, a research assistant professor of animal sciences; and Bhanu Telugu, a post-doctoral fellow in animal sciences, have developed the ability to take regular cells from a pig's connective tissues, known as fibroblasts, and transform them into stem cells, eliminating several hurdles associated with stem cell research.
International Placements:
6/26/09 Insciences Organization (international)
6/26/09 Indonesia Tionghoa Networks
6/26/09 NewsTin (United Kingdom)
National Placements:
6/25/09 Science Daily
6/25/09 PhysOrg.com
6/25/09 Genetic Engineering News
6/25/09 Red Orbit.com
6/25/09 Associated Press
6/25/09 BioNet.com
6/26/09 BioCompare.com
6/26/09 Belleville News Democrat - Belleville, IL;
6/26/09 Science Centric
6/26/09 eScience News
6/26/09 Science Codex
6/26/09 Topix.com
6/26/09 Stem Cell Research Blog (stemcell.taragana.net)
6/26/09 Cell-News
6/26/09 Care2.com (Care2 Make a Difference Web site)
6/26/09 Yahoo! News
6/26/09 HealthNewsDigest.com
6/26/09 Medical News Today
6/26/09 medilexicon.com
6/26/09 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology news
6/26/09 GeneRef.com
6/26/09 KAIT-ABC - Jonesboro, AR;
6/26/09 SmartBrief.com
6/26/09 Examiner.com
6/26/09 TechnoBlab (Technology and Science Blog)
6/26/09 Inform.com
6/26/09 Health, Science and Technology News (web site)
6/26/09 FirstScience.com
6/26/09 News Blaze.com
6/26/09 DentalPlans.com
6/26/09 Current.com
6/27/09 MachinesLikeUs.com
6/27/09 EuroSeek.com
6/28/09 Kansas City Infozine
6/28/09 Cloning Resources
6/28/09 NewCancerFacts.com
State Placements:
6/26/09 Jefferson City News Tribune - Jefferson City, MO;
6/26/09 KTVI-FOX - St. Louis, MO;
6/26/09 WDAF-FOX - Kansas City, MO;
6/26/09 KCTV-CBS - Kansas City, MO;
6/26/09 KOMU-NBC - Columbia, MO;
6/26/09 KMOV - CBS - St. Louis, MO;
6/27/09 Springfield News Leader - Springfield, MO;
6/29/09 Columbia Tribune
Lea Ann Lowery, a clinical assistant professor in occupational therapy, says that the best summer activity for children is unrestricted and unstructured playtime. Such activities help promote physical and emotional development.
6/22/09 HealthNewsDigest
6/23/09 KansasCity InfoZine
6/23/09 DentalPlans.com
6/23/09 Blast Magazine
6/26/09 Springfield News-Leader - Springfield, MO;
Four University of Missouri students (Team NearBuy) showcased their innovative mobile phone application
at Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference in San Francisco. The students demonstrated a new way to
deliver classified advertising.
National Placements:
05/20/09 CollegeMogul.com
05/31/09 VentureCircit.com
06/12/09 blogs.cioinsight.com
06/13/09 pingmicro.wordpress.com
06/13/09 news.iphoneworld.ca
State Placements:
06/12/09 KansasCityInfoZine.com
06/12/09 Examiner.com (St. Louis)
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation has announced that the University of Missouri is one of two
universities that has been designated a 2009 Truman Foundation Honor Institution.
State Placements:
06/18/09 Columbia Daily Tribune
06/19/09 Columbia Missourian
06/20/09 KansasCityInfozine.com
The Missouri P-20 Center for Education Policy Research at MU hosted a conference about advancing P-20
education: early education, K-12 and higher education.
National Placements:
06/09/09 Belleville News Democrat
06/09/09 Education Week
06/09/09 Edweek.com
06/09/09 FortMillsTimes.com
06/09/09 Fort Mills Times South Carolina
06/09/09 WRAL-TV Durham, Raleigh, NC
State Placements:
06/05/09 Columbia Missourian
06/09/09 Fox4KC.com
06/09/09 KRCG-TV Columbia, MO 12 p.m. aud. 10,056
06/09/09 KRCG-TV Columbia, MO 6 a.m. aud. 6,338
06/09/09 KRCG-TV 5 a.m. aud. 2,429
06/09/09 KHQA.com
06/09/09 ConnectTriStates.com
06/09/09 Springfield News-Leader
06/09/09 News-Leader.com
06/09/09 KSPR.com
06/09/09 KBIA-radio
06/09/09 KTVO-TV Kirksville, MO
06/09/09 KOAMtv.com
06/09/09 heartlandconnection.com
06/09/09 KOMU-TV
06/09/09 KPLR-TV St. Louis, MO
06/09/09 KMOX.com
06/09/09 KMOX-radio St. Louis, MO
06/09/09 WGEM-TV
06/10/09 Columbia Missourian
06/09/09 KPLR-TV St. Louis, MO
06/09/09 WGEM-TV
06/10/09 Columbia Missourian
James Cook, professor of veterinary medicine and surgery and the William & Kathryn Allen Distinguished Professor in Orthopedic Surgery; and Sonny Bal, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery in the MU School of Medicine, received a $3.1 million grant from the NIH to expand their biological joint technology that uses living tissue instead of plastic and metal to replace damaged joints.
National Placements:
06/23/09 Genetic Engineering News
06/23/09 Softpedia
06/23/09 PhysOrg.com
06/26/09 Belleville News Democrat
State Placements:
06/26/09 KRCG - Columbia, MO
06/26/09 ConnectTriStates.com powered by KHQA
06/26/09 fox4kc.com - Kansas City
06/26/09 FOX2now.com - St. Louis
Dmitry Korkin, assistant professor in the University of Missouri Informatics Institute and Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering, recently received a five-year, $613,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to apply his computational research to the study of molecular mimicry in an important plant pathogen, the soybean cyst nematode.
National Placements:
06/24/09 PhysOrg.com
06/24/09 FirstScience
State Placements:
06/24/09 Kansas City infoZine
The University of Missouri College of Engineering hosted the 2009 International Bioelectrics Symposium. The symposium will include lectures and discussion among members of the Bioelectrics Consortium and others in related fields.
State Placements:
06/26/09 Columbia Daily Tribune
Frederick vom Saal, a professor of biological sciences in the College of Arts and Science, warned that people may be getting higher than recommended exposure to BPA from both known and unknown sources - a conclusion he drew from research involving monkeys.
International Placements:
06/11/09 DailyIndia.com
06/11/09 Newstrack India
06/11/09 AsiaOne
06/11/09 Khaleej Times
06/12/09 Edmonton Journal
06/12/09 Times Colonist
06/12/09 Ottawa Citizen
06/12/09 The Province
06/12/09 Regina Leader-Post
06/12/09 Windsor Star
06/12/09 Canada.com
06/12/09 Alarab online
06/17/09 Malaysia Star - Malaysia
National Placements:
06/10/09 EmpowHer
06/10/09 ScienceBlog.com
06/10/09 U.S. News & World Report
06/10/09 KTVN
06/10/09 Genetic Engineering News
06/10/09 WFIE-TV
06/10/09 Lex 18
06/10/09 MSN Health & Fitness
06/10/09 Forbes
06/10/09 RedOrbit
06/10/09 Newswise
06/11/09 TopNews
06/11/09 Post Chronicle
06/11/09 Medical News Today
06/11/09 Little About
06/11/09 Thaindian.com
06/11/09 Science Centric
06/11/09 Market Research Agency
06/11/09 U.S. Daily
06/11/09 stv.tv
06/11/09 elEconomista.es
06/11/09 Conde Nast Portfolio
06/11/09 Reuters
06/11/09 Science Daily
06/11/09 Science News
06/11/09 Atlanta Journal Constitution
06/11/09 Austin American-Statesman
06/11/09 Straits Times
06/12/09 The Money Times
06/12/09 RedOrbit
06/12/09 Examiner.com
06/12/09 United Press International
06/12/09 National Post
06/12/09 Natural Products Marketplace
06/12/09 Yahoo! News
06/12/09 Food Product Design
06/12/09 The Money Times
06/12/09 Health.com
06/12/09 AOL News Newsbloggers
06/12/09 Smash Hits
06/12/09 StarPhoenix
06/12/09 Post Chronicle
06/12/09 Mother Nature Network
06/18/09 Financial Post
06/18/09 National Post
06/23/09 The Epoch Times
06/23/09 The Buffalo News
06/26/09 SDNN: San Diego News Network