#university of missouri

[muspeccoll]

640-year-old fly, anyone?

We're not sure how long this fly has been in this 14th-century notary's notebook, but it was a favorite among the students who spotted it in class a few weeks ago.

La Turade, Bernard de. [Notarial Registry]. 1383-1393. VAULT DC95.A2 N6 1383

[inthedarktrees]

University of Missouri | Alfred Eisenstaedt, Life, Jun 7, 1937

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency in removing nanoplastics from water

University of Missouri scientists are battling against an emerging enemy of human health: nanoplastics. Much smaller in size than the diameter of an average human hair, nanoplastics are invisible to the naked eye. Linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in people, nanoplastics continue to build up, largely unnoticed, in the world's bodies of water. The challenge remains to develop a cost-effective solution to get rid of nanoplastics while leaving clean water behind. That's where Mizzou comes in. Recently, researchers at the university created a new liquid-based solution that eliminates more than 98% of these microscopic plastic particles from water.

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Professor Michael Volz casually sitting next to a man with a sign that says: “Save Hamas.” At the University of Missouri, @mizzou they host a weekly anti-Israel protest.  There is a man who joins the protests almost every week who holds a sign that says: “Save Hamas.” They also regularly hold a sign that says: “Negotiate with Hamas.”  If the people holding signs that say “Save Hamas” do not represent them, then why do they let him march with them every week? If someone showed up to a Pro-Israel event with a sign that declared: “Save Hamas,” then we would not let him march in our group. But, they never kick out people who hold signs praising Hamas.  Drew McCausland is a Methodist Minister in my town who joins the protests. I asked him why he marches with a guy that holds a sign proclaiming: “Save Hamas.” Minister McCausland responded that it was fine, because the sign also states: “Save Israel,” at the bottom. But, when I tried to speak with the man who carries the sign, he started screaming at me. Obviously the message of the sign is that Hamas are the legitimate representatives of the Palestinian people.  Professor Michael Volz is the Director of the MU International Studies Program. Hamas calls for murdering every Jew on earth. The Hamas Charter declares: “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews. When the Jew will hide behind stones and trees, the stones and trees will say, ‘O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’” On Saturdays, Professor Michael Volz just likes to join protests where people show up to support a group that calls for murdering every Jewish student on campus.

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Choosing among 1,371 entries, the 27 judges at the University of Missouri School of Journalism conferred 120 awards on editors, writers, photographers, podcasters, social media experts and videographers in the 2024 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition

[thechanelmuse]

Lloyd L. Gaines 🖤: In 1938, he filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri Law. He won his case. 

Three months later (around March 19, 1939), he disappeared never to be found.

Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born in Water Valley, Mississippi in 1911. After the death of his father, he moved with his mom and siblings to in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a valedictorian at Vashon High School. After winning a $250 ($4,000 in current dollars) scholarship in an essay contest, Gaines went to college and graduated with honors and a bachelor's degree in history from Lincoln University, a historically black college in Jefferson City, Missouri. It was the state's segregated undergraduate institution for Black Americans.

Despite an outstanding scholastic record, Gaines was denied admission based solely on the grounds that Missouri’s Constitution called for “separate education of the races.” Because Missouri had no public law school that admitted Black applications, state law required the state to pay Gaines’ tuition at public universities in Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska. 

Gaines sued the University of Missouri seeking an order granting him admission to its Law School. In 1938, he won his case before the US Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada. Although the Court did not order that he be admitted to the Law School, it did hold that Missouri’s lack of an in-state law school for Black students violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Missouri complied with the order by setting aside limited funds for the creation of a Black law school at Lincoln University.

Missouri’s minimal efforts to comply with the Supreme Court’s opinion in the courts was challenged. As the legal battle unfolded, Gaines disappeared under mysterious but unmistakably suspicious circumstances. You know why...

In March 1939, at age 28 and only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Gaines went missing while living in Chicago. Lloyd Gaines was never seen or heard from again. His case was dropped. Not only did Gaines never have the chance to attend the University of Missouri, but neither did any other Black student until 1950. The Law School at the University of Missouri-Columbia did not admit its first Black students until the late 1960s.

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The Quad

Francis Quadrangle

University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri

[muspeccoll]

For Banned Books Week, we offer you this 81-year-old image from our collections.

No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny.

A print of this poster currently hangs in the hallway between our reading room and classroom, along with several other posters about libraries, books, and reading, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

Books are weapons in the war of ideas [graphic] / S. Broder. RARE FLAT D743.25 .B75 1942

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Sheila Pree Bright ֍ 1960 Now (Students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Stand with Students of the University of Missouri, Demanding the Resignation of President Tim Wolfe) (2015)

[materialsscienceandengineering]

No assembly required: Innovative 3D printing method streamlines multi-materials manufacturing

University of Missouri researchers have developed a way to create complex devices with multiple materials—including plastics, metals and semiconductors—all with a single machine. The research, which was recently published in Nature Communications, outlines a novel 3D printing and laser process to manufacture multi-material, multi-layered sensors, circuit boards and even textiles with electronic components. It's called the Freeform Multi-material Assembly Process, and it promises to revolutionize the fabrication of new products. By printing sensors embedded within a structure, the machine can make things that can sense environmental conditions, including temperature and pressure. For other researchers, that could mean having a natural-looking object such as a rock or seashell that could measure the movement of ocean water. For the public, applications could include wearable devices that monitor blood pressure and other vital signs.

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United States, 1968

University of Missouri Rifle Team

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[jgthirlwell]

01.14.23 We worked on making a recording of Alarm Will Sound performing the first movement of my Execution symphony in Columbia MO today. It's beautiful to hear this long-gestating piece come alive with such mastery. I am told that the world premiere on Jan 17 2023 will be streamed live on the University of Missouri School of Music YouTube channel. The show begins at 7pm CST / 8pm EST.

[megmiller]

Meg Miller - A Teaching Assistant

 Meg Miller is not shy when it comes to her dedication to animals. From working as a Veterinary Technician and as an Assistant Teacher for Biology of Animal Production (at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources) to working as a service learning volunteer and caretaker, Meg Miller is experienced when it comes to her time in both fields.