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1 month ago | 
columbiamissourian.com | Hannah Schuh |Harshawn Ratanpal |Mark Horvit |Ezra Bitterman
NEW MADRID - At the New Madrid Historical Museum there's an earthquake simulator where visitors get to play engineer. At their disposal are cylindrical wooden sticks and rectangular boards that can be constructed into simple buildings. A numbered dial is then turned, which causes the platform to shake, simulating earthquakes of varying intensity. Most basic buildings are fine in the 1.0-3.0 range.
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2 months ago | 
columbiamissourian.com | Amelia Hurley |Mark Horvit
Imagine wrapping a fragile glass in bubble wrap before placing it inside a box. If the box is dropped, the bubble wrap absorbs some of the impact. That's essentially how Guardian Caps, the padded helmet coverings that have dominated football fields as one of the most recognizable safety measures in the sport, are designed to work. The soft shell absorbs some of the initial force from helmet-to-helmet contact, reducing the direct shock transferred to a player's helmet.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Rylie Oswald Al-Awhad |Elizabeth Walters |Madeline Shannon |Mark Horvit
In the early morning hours of Feb. 27, Danielle Redenbaugh from Osawatomie woke up to the telltale signs of labor. As a mom of two, she anticipated a routine birth experience for her third. As her contractions began pulsing a minute apart, she knew it was time to make the 30-minute journey to Olathe Medical Center in Kansas. By the time Redenbaugh and her husband, Riley, were on the road, it became clear that their baby was coming fast.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Mark Horvit |Komlavi Adissem
Danielle and Grace Perkowitz packed up and left Chicago two years ago for Houghton, Michigan, to start a career in goat farming. "I had a joke for years - I'm going to start a goat farm," said Danielle Perkowitz, co-owner of BigGoat Farm. "What are we waiting for? Let's do it."
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Kate Cassady |Kaia Tran |Nick Sheaffer |Mark Horvit
On a family farm in Lawrence County, Matt Woodward waded through his lush ankle-high rows of corn, a vision of agricultural promise. The evenly spaced rows stretched toward the horizon line in tidy formation, the fertile soil between them dark and rich with possibility. Under this moist layer of soil is a complex system of drip lines with emitters, slowly dripping single drops of groundwater into the soil at the root zone. "More crop per drop, more crop per area," Woodward described his system.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Katelynn McIlwain |Mark Horvit
The recent UM System Board of Curators petition to remove racial and ethnic criteria from 53 donated scholarships and funds is a final step in a year-long process that has already removed such criteria from millions of dollars in student aid. University of Missouri spokesperson Christian Basi said the university awarded $12.3 million in institutional financial aid with a race and ethnicity component in the 2022-23 academic year - about 6.4% of the university's financial aid budget.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Nick Ginter |Kasey Dunnavant |Mark Horvit |Kate Cassady
Bair and Iuliia Dashidorzhiev used to live a life that may sound pretty familiar. Bair was a brilliant engineer with an extensive resume. From working in research laboratories to mines in Russia, he was always employed. He'd even begun building a laboratory in Sudan for a gold-mining company. That was before, though. His wife, Iuliia, was a nurse who worked in Moscow. After 10 long years of waiting, she gave birth to a son in 2019. The couple named him Bato.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Katelynn McIlwain |Mark Horvit
The University of Missouri Curators filed a petition last week to change the use of donations from their original purpose of providing financial opportunities to students from specific racial and ethnic backgrounds. According to the filing, the change would impact a minimum of 53 funds across UM's four campuses by removing any "racial criteria" and leaving all other wording intact. A review of some of the funds shows they can range from several thousand dollars to more than $100,000 each.
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May 15, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Mark Horvit |Caroline Larson |Cara Penquite |Nick Sheaffer
By Mark Horvit,Caroline Larson,Cara Penquite,Nick Sheaffer It takes more than food to end hunger. That's the core belief of Katie Martin, founder and CEO of More Than Food Consulting. Martin has dedicated three decades to research, consulting and organizing with food banks, pantries and community organizations to address hunger at its root causes.
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May 1, 2024 | 
columbiamissourian.com | Emma Murphy |Mark Horvit
"Fetal personhood" has emerged as the next step of the anti-abortion movement. By amending state constitutions or passing new laws, a number of state legislatures across the country are attempting to give fetuses the rights and protections of any human under the law.
