David Morrison

May 6, 2024 | blogs.umsl.edu | David Morrison

Story by David MorrisonIn November 2022, the University of Missouri–St. Louis volleyball team won its first-ever NCAA Division II Regional title and reached the national semifinals. Just four months later, the Tritons men’s basketball team won the second regional championship in program history and played in the Elite Eight for the first time in more than 50 years.

May 25, 2023 | blogs.umsl.edu | David Morrison

“You get to go into a lot of different environments,” Manion says. “It’s really fun to be in the room with the students. They tendto have a higher interest in the subject, be engaged, and I have opportunities to talk to the students about what college is going to be like and answer questions about the transition.”For many students, their experience with ACP courses makes that transition much smoother.

Feb 20, 2023 | nature.com | Satoshi Yoshiji |Guillaume Butler-Laporte |Tianyuan Lu |Chen-Yang Su |Tomoko Nakanishi |David Morrison | +5 more

AbstractObesity is a major risk factor for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) severity; however, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are not fully understood. As obesity influences the plasma proteome, we sought to identify circulating proteins mediating the effects of obesity on COVID-19 severity in humans. Here, we screened 4,907 plasma proteins to identify proteins influenced by body mass index using Mendelian randomization.