Social media fueled Joplin disaster fundraising
Joplin Relief
June 10, 2011
PYSK: Stacey Thompson
Stacey Thompson Owner, Columbia Welcome AGE: 40 YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: Four most recently and a few years during graduate school ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Jefferson City JOB DESCRIPTION: I run a welcome service for newcomers to Columbia and personally deliver baskets stuffed full of helpful community information, gifts, business coupons, maps, brochures and gift certificates from about 75 local business sponsors, the city of Columbia
Moog School, a fillip in education, closes after 10 years | From the Roundtable
This is a story I’m going to call “Jack’s Three Miracles.” Among the small group that gathered in Bethel Park on May 6, 2001, to celebrate Jack’s second birthday, I already knew he wasn’t hearing very well. Tests showed Jack’s hearing was deficient, compounded by an imbalance between his left and right ears. Jack was
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Women reversing trends in doctorate enrollments
During the past decade, women have led the way in obtaining master’s degrees but lagged behind men in earning doctorates — until now. The Council of Graduate Schools reports that in 2008-09, women earned 50.4 percent of doctorates. That was the first year that women reversed a long-established trend. At the University of Missouri, the