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MU is one of the nation’s top-tier R1 institutions, and one of 34 public universities to be members of the Association of American Universities and the only one in Missouri. There are more than 270,000 MU alumni living worldwide, with almost one half continuing to reside in Missouri. The University of Missouri was ranked 97th in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report among the national universities, steady from the previous year.
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Special Education, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor, Trulaske College of Business, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor of Communication and Public Health, University of Missouri-Columbia
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University of Missouri, College of Health Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Dean of College of Education and Human Development, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Gilbreath-McLorn Endowed Professor of Comparative Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of History and Kinder Professor of British History, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate professor of edcuational leadershiop and policy analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia
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PhD Student, Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs. Graduate Fellow, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia