August 2015

Inc. magazine’s annual list of the 5000 fastest growing private companies is a who’s who of the startup world. Alumni include Oracle, Domino’s Pizza and Microsoft. This year’s top company, Ultra Mobile, grew by 100,849 percent — which would be a number to talk about, except that we’re too busy celebrating Columbia’s five entries on the […]

Columbia College’s nationwide network of campuses presents a challenge in management for President Scott Dalrymple, but he’s eager to be challenged— and he spent 82 nights on the road to prove it. Dalrymple and his wife, Tina, completed a national tour of the college’s 36 extension campuses. In the process, they visited 13 states and

A researcher at the MU School of Medicine has developed a public health model that reaches across borders and oceans to help urban and rural areas with an all too common problem: lacking the funding to prevent and stop the spread of chronic diseases. The Public Health Index helps prevention programs prioritize diseases and health

Jocelyn Kilgore has learned a balancing act — literally and figuratively. By operating as vice president at Bucket Media and as a new co-owner of Sumits Hot Yoga, she balances two jobs. By witnessing the way yoga transforms her clients and herself, she also balances her lifestyle. “Yoga changes people’s lives for the better,” Kilgore

MU now offers a 10 percent tuition reduction for community college graduates who want to pursue an online bachelor’s degree. The Mizzou Online Community College Tuition Award is available to Missouri residents who have graduated from a community college in the state and are pursuing one of MU’s undergraduate distance programs. The reduction will count

Central Missouri Events Center Review Committee members are boarding a Mo-X bus to help save the Boone County Event Center— or at least they hope so. As community financial support has waned in recent months, the future of the center looks more and more like the center itself: gray and falling apart. The committee is

Three months after receiving a $10 million dollar donation from Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield, kicking off a fundraising campaign for a new music building, MU is still accruing donations from high-profile alumni. Sam Hamra, a graduate of MU’s business and law schools and chairman of Hamra Enterprises, donated $100,000 to the project. Hamra made the

THHinc McClure Engineering Company found a way to collect more data quicker: by getting a new high-definition, 3D scanner, which will allow the company to capture one million points per second at ranges of up to 270 meters. In Missouri, this is the first purchase of such a scanner for engineering, architecture and surveying purposes.

Alliance Water Resources, headquartered in Columbia, recently acquired a new client: Clay County, water supply district six. Alliance will oversee all daily water operations for the district, which has more than 1,800 customers. Taking care of Clay County’s water supply includes managing break repairs, keeping water systems up to code and providing resources to help