December 7, 2012
A Closer Look for December 2012
1. Claybrook Concepts This new digital media production agency is all about people. The company’s goal is “to conceive, foster and maintain thorough connections with our clients and community.” Its services include print, video and film production. Echoing its people-valued brand position, the company also specializes in wedding video production. >> Proprietors: Scott Claybrook Contact:
6 Questions and More
What is the staffing like for the MU Power Plant? Staffing of the MU power plant is crucial to providing MU’s campus with highly reliable utility service. The plant runs 24 hours per day year-round to serve the entire campus community. All campus buildings and facilities, including hospitals and research laboratories, depend on reliable
The Future Is Now
WALKING INTO THE FUTURES LAB at the University of Missouri’s Donald J. Reynolds Journalism Institute, you might think you have mistakenly walked onto a Star Trek movie set. As you look around the room, you see a student using his body as the controller to play
PYSK: Byron D. Molix
>>Age: 38 >>Job description: I do a little bit of everything technology related. That includes researching project feasibility, conveying technology processes to people on their level, providing solutions to unique problems involving technology and breaking projects into individual steps and implementing them. Sometimes I optimize processes or supervise others to get a large-scale job done.
Where There’s a Need
HORRIFIC TRAGEDIES, when embraced by the community, can lead to some good. This was the case when Spc. Sterling Wyatt was killed in Afghanistan in July and a memorial fund to provide scholarships to Columbia Boy Scouts was set up in his name. A donor presented an idea, community members backed it, and it gained
Filling the Gap
WITH LESS THAN TWO MONTH before the main deadline in the deal that brought IBM to Columbia, the company so far is 142 jobs short of its commitment. The company received more than $41.2 million in public assistance from state and local sources, and in return for $8.6 million from the Missouri Department of Economic
Flashback: Shiloh Bar and Grill
THE HUSTLE AND BUSTLE of passenger trains frequenting the M.K. & T. Depot far predates the vibrant and boisterous crowd that now fills the walls of Shiloh Bar and Grill on Fourth Street. Katy Station, as it was popularly called, was built by the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in 1909 as part of the system that stretched