MizzouForward, a strategic investment to achieve research excellence and student success at the University of Missouri, leverages existing institutional strengths and addresses national health and scientific priority areas through innovation and collaboration.
Mizzou Engineering is home to the Missouri University Research Reactor (MURR), a world-class facility that provides extensive capabilities for materials testing and collaborations in nuclear science and medicine.
The Materials Science and Engineering Institute offers state-of-the-art equipment and fosters interdisciplinary collaborations, anchored by a new PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering launching in Fall 2027 and an NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) in AI and materials.
These strengths come together in the Energy Innovation Center (EIC), a campus-wide hub uniting expertise in energy generation, conversion, and storage, along with advanced materials and data science. With faculty leading research across these domains, Mizzou is building a comprehensive ecosystem for discovery and innovation—aligning research excellence with the energy and materials challenges of the future.
Mizzou Engineering is bolstering its faculty strength in quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and related areas—anchored by the Quantum Innovation Center, the Center for Geospatial Intelligence (CGI), Mizzou CERI and the AI Research Interest Group (AI‑RIG). The AI‑RIG cultivates an interdisciplinary AI community across campus, offering seed funding, training, grant support, and enhanced access to computational and data resources to empower faculty research and creativity.
Our computing infrastructure supports research excellence across all scales: a secure computing facility (with Controlled Unclassified Information—CUI—certification), flexible campus-wide clusters, and the powerful Hellbender supercomputer. These systems enable seamless work from experimentation to deployment in quantum research, AI-driven discovery, and advanced computing.
The University of Missouri was established in 1839, making it the first public university west of the Mississippi River, and is a land-grant institution and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities.
Campus is home to more than 31,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
Mizzou is the flagship campus of the UM System, which also has campuses in St. Louis, Kansas City and Rolla. The system serves all 114 counties in Missouri and generates billions of dollars of economic impact for the state.
Columbia, Missouri, is consistently ranked as one of the top college towns and best places to live in the U.S by Money magazine, Fortune magazine, U.S. News & World Report and others. The city is home to major employers, high-quality schools, a regional airport, numerous parks and trails and national festivals, all while proving to be less expensive than the national cost of living average. Explore more reasons we call CoMo home.
Sep. 16, 2025
Sheila Grant and Raghuraman Kannan have received the highest honor bestowed by the University of Missouri System.
Aug. 19, 2025
College leaders share a vision that values strong academic programs, purposeful collaboration and global impact.
Aug. 19, 2025
A $2.5 million collaboration between Mizzou and UConn aims to personalize learning for more engineering students.
June 26, 2025
The University of Missouri is designing and constructing an Energy Innovation Center, a cutting-edge facility where world-class researchers will design the energy systems of tomorrow.