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Jan. 30, 2019
Vol. 85, Issue 17
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HEALTH
MSA pushes for accessible feminine hygiene products around campus MSA’s recent push for all accessible feminine hygiene products focuses on placing these items in bathrooms across campus. ZAINIE QURESHI
Reporter
Missouri Students Association plans to implement a $2,500 initiative this semester to increase feminine hygiene product accessibility in bathrooms across campus. The money comes from Bill 58-14, which fulfills funding requests for different MSA sponsored proposals. MSA senate speaker Jake Addington said the funding was a one-time withdrawal from MSA’s reserve funds. “We allocated $2,500 to buying the products and advertising it to students,” Addington said. Freshman Caitlen Boyd said she believes the
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MSA senate speaker Jake Addington discussing a bill during a senate meeting. | MANEATER FILE PHOTO
AGRICULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
Annual agroforestry symposium focuses on fostering the research translation between innovation, application
MU Health Sciences launches new Ph.D. program
The symposium featured a variety of speakers from distinguished researchers to experienced professionals and agencies within the industry. ADELE DU
Staff writer
The 10th annual UMCA Agroforestry Symposium takes place at the Bond Life Sciences Center on Jan. 30 and 31. The symposium is free and open to the public. The symposium was founded by the Center for Agroforestry which was established in 1998. As a world-leading center specialized in agroforestry practices, the center’s core research focuses on intensive land-use management combining trees, shrubs, crops and livestock.
Agroforestry practices can be divided into five main components: forest farming, alley cropping, upland and riparian forest buffers, silvopasture and windbreaks. These components help to fit the agricultural needs of individual landowners and their farms, according to the center’s website. Gregory Ormsby Mori, education and outreach director for the Center of Agroforestry, said the symposium has grown significantly in the past 10 years from the size of the venue to the numbers of departments and colleges involved. He said one of the most important areas of growth is the collaboration across the MU campus and its surrounding community. “We really have increased participation from different sectors across campus as well as a wider public,” Ormsby Mori said. “From state agency folks to people in the industry along with people who are interested
in sustainable agriculture systems in general.” The symposium itself is not only a research-oriented event where researchers and scientists present their papers, but also where speakers, such as Matthew Wood, CEO and founder of Probiotic Holdings, LLC, provide insight from a business perspective. Although these speakers’ presentations might be less technical, they offer a broader insight and perspective on the topic, he said. The theme for the symposium tends to focus on the newest, trendy topics within the industry. Past themes have been soil science and its impact on climate change and the biomass feedback supply chain. This year’s theme is Innovation to Entrepreneurship: Fostering a Culture of Research Translation. This year’s theme is a bit different from the themes
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This Ph.D. program will train students in the fields of rehabilitation so that they are better suited to enter that line of work. WICKER PERLIS
Repoter
Starting this August, MU students will be able to pursue a Ph.D. in health and rehabilitation science. The new program, a part of the School of Health Professions Department of Health Sciences, was approved by the UM System Board of Curators in September 2018 and will be the first of its kind at a public institution in the state of Missouri. The program is aimed at students who wish to pursue careers of research, higher education and leadership in
the fields of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speechlanguage pathology, health psychology, health science and public health. Stephanie Reid-Arndt, associate dean for Academic Affairs, is the founding director of the Ph.D. program. “The Ph.D. in health and rehabilitation science program was developed by faculty within the MU School of Health Professions. Our school has 14 existing undergraduate and graduate programs aimed at preparing students for careers in health care,” Reid-Arndt said. This new program is somewhat different from many of the others within the school in that it is not intended for direct patient care, but rather for research. “A majority of our programs prepare students to provide direct patient care,” ReidArndt said. “To complement
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