President & Creative Director, IDPgroup 2006-07 Secretary, Mid-Missouri Advertising FederationAGE: 35 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Creative direction, strategy, Web development. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 13 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: St. Louis EDUCATION: Culver-Stockton in Canton, Mo., with a major in music and a minor in computer science. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Mid-Missouri Advertising Federation, Woodcrest Chapel music ministry and children’s ministry, […]
For its goal of knowledge-based economic development, Columbia is counting on the University of Missouri to turn research advances into marketable products and jobs. MU’s Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory, a company that mixes private enterprise with public research, is a poster child for this effort. John Gardner, vice president for research and economic development at
On occasion we should all take time out to review what education on all levels means to our state and how we need to support these enterprises. Several ongoing controversies, including the MOHELA matter, have divided the public into several camps, spurring some of us to unhealthy levels of anger and bitterness. The threat of
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Houghton Mifflin, 307 pages, $25 Reviewed by Steve Weinberg As a teenager in St. Louis, James S. Hirsch learned that he was diabetic. After reporting for the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, Hirsch settled in Boston with his wife. They started a family. Hirsch felt he had learned to manage his diabetes pretty
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Many newspapers covered the announcement of 14 former curators of the University of Missouri unanimously opposing Senate Bill 389. While the newspapers did give good coverage to the fact that some of the provisions of the bill may be unconstitutional or unenforceable, they failed to address four or five other provisions of the bill that
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The process of discovering, envisioning new ideas and creating has always excited me. It’s what attracted me to a research career in agriculture, where I learned the trade from the ground up. New products and new ideas are also increasingly what drive our economy and business. But there’s a catch. If you are to seek
At times, topics for this column are difficult to find. Not so this month. I considered babbling about a recent birthday. My AARP card has arrived, and my sons find great humor in asking what it’s like to be half a century old. My mother hardly believes her firstborn is 50. The memory of that
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At Stephens College, Rob Doyen is well known not only as the chairman of the Theater Department but also as the first man to get a degree from the historic women’s college. In Columbia’s business community, particularly among newcomers, he’s known as Stuart Throckmorton, the Business Conference & Showcase fanatic. Doyen’s favorite story about living
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Microsoft information worker solution specialist Sean Abbott will be the featured speaker for a Columbia Chamber of Commerce 2007 Business Conference & Showcase seminar entitled “New Microsoft Workplace Technologies.” The presentation, sponsored by Midwest CompuTech, will take place at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 6, in the Holiday Inn Select Executive Center. A native of New
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The Chamber of Commerce coordinated the 12th annual salute to Mayor Darwin Hindman, held at Lenoir Woods Community Center on Feb. 16. The event also paid tribute to the city council, particularly outgoing members Jim Loveless and Chris Janku (shown here with Hindman and Mark Duncan of State Farm Insurance Co.) Duncan and Chamber President
