Andrew & Peggy Cherng Inducted Into Mizzou Homecoming Hall of Fame

The MU campus gathered Friday, October 20, to honor the 2017 Class of the Mizzou Homecoming Hall of Fame.

Geek Out

The Honors College celebrated its third annual Geek Week Sept. 18-23, complete with trivia, games, crafts and more. This year, Geek Week broke its previous attendance record, as programming reached 160 total students. The week saw 223 event sign-ins, indicating that many students attended more than one event.

Guidance for Aspiring Doctors

The number of Mizzou students admitted to medical and dental schools is well above the national average, due in part to the support student receive from MU’s MedOpp Advising Office.

In the News

By day, senior Tyler Emery is a typical college student; she attends class, participates in extracurricular activities and spends time with her friends. By night, she is a professional news anchor for Columbia’s NBC affiliate, KOMU. On weekday evenings, Emery’s face appears on television sets across mid-Missouri as she broadcasts the news live to 40,000 viewers in 15 counties.

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote Named Inaugural Cherng Visiting Scholar

Dr. Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the inaugural Andrew and Peggy Cherng Distinguished Visiting Scholar for the MU Honors College.

Helping Houston

After Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, Texas, in late August, leaving widespread devastation, students in Professor Richard Oliver’s Career Explorations class wanted to help. Missouri is far from Harvey’s destruction, but the storm’s impacts were…

Missouri Land Grant Compact Aims to Erase Tuition for Thousands

Sierra Applegate is a sophomore honors student studying aerospace engineering at MU. Next fall, she and thousands of other students won’t have to pay a dime of tuition.

Land Grant Compact Will Provide Access to Missouri Residents

New grants underscore the University of Missouri’s pledge to fulfill its land-grant mission by offering more competitive, affordable education to Missourians

Maintaining Standards of Excellence

Honors College alum and supporter Margaret Holt maintains journalistic standards at the Chicago Tribune

Timely Tutorials

Tutorials are a part the Honors College’s innovative curriculum that provide students with an opportunity to study a subject in real time, in depth, and in a small setting.  Professor Frank Bowman, who is on the law faculty, is teaching a Honors Tutorial in the fall called “The Impeachment Power & American Constitutional Balance.”  He…