Field Trip to Boone County Nature School, Tuesday, June 24, Tour 8:30-9:30 am with optional hiking afterwards.
Free, program. Indoors is accessible. Option afterwards is hiking on the grounds. Bring own insect/tick repellent, sunscreen, hat and water if you plan to hike outdoors after the tour and program.
Last day to register (so BCNS can plan sufficiently for hosting us): Monday, June 16, 2025.
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Debbie Beal, Executive Director, City of Refuge.
At City of Refuge, we get the privilege of serving and empowering… but we also get the privilege of connecting people to people.
“Since its foundation, the United States has offered freedom and opportunity to refugees fleeing the world’s most dangerous and desperate situations.” – History of Refugee Resettlement
At the April 2024 Board meeting, the Board approved making the Breakfast Zoom webinar and the live recording of the event available for FREE to members; however preregistration is required.
Pre-registration and payment (via PayPal Account, Venmo bank transfer) for the breakfast must be received by Monday, May 20, 2025. If you have paid for the in-person breakfast and find that you are unable to attend, you may watch the webinar live via the Zoom link or later via the Zoom video recording link. You must request access to the live link by contacting Mary Leuci no later than the day prior to the breakfast.
NOTE: The Zoom video recording will be available upon request for 45 days following the breakfast.
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. for in-person breakfast at the Country Club of Missouri on Forum Blvd ($15.00):
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. the Zoom webinar (free):
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Marc Johnson, University of Missouri
Flush with Data: Using Wastewater Surveillance as a Comprehensive and Unbiased Readout of Community Health
Marc is Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at Mizzou, and an Investigator at the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center. He joined MU in 2005 after completing a Ph.D. at Oregon State and postdoctoral work at Cornell. He was happily studying how viruses assemble when the earth stood still in 2020, as COVID-19 swept the world. Laboratories everywhere shut down, but Marc switched to a new field, using the tools of molecular biology on wastewater samples to characterize new and old strains of the COVID virus. Environmental samples can predict outbreaks, monitor community susceptibility to disease, and can do so without invading people’s privacy.
At the April 2024 Board meeting, the Board approved making the Breakfast Zoom webinar and the live recording of the event available for FREE to members; however preregistration is required.
Pre-registration and payment (via PayPal Account, Venmo bank transfer) for the breakfast must be received by Monday, April 21, 2025. If you have paid for the in-person breakfast and find that you are unable to attend, you may watch the webinar live via the Zoom link or later via the Zoom video recording link. You must request access to the live link by contacting Mary Leuci no later than the day prior to the breakfast.
NOTE: The Zoom video recording will be available upon request for 45 days following the breakfast.
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. for in-person breakfast at the Country Club of Missouri on Forum Blvd ($15.00):
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. the Zoom webinar (free):
Mike Hosokawa, EdD, MU Professor Emeritus, Family and Community Medicine, will speak about his experience as a Japanese American forced into internment camp as child during WWII for April 1.
On February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 forced 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry off the West Coast into 10 camps surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. Most of 120,000 were American citizens, like Mike, by birth. There were no criminal charges filed, there were no trials. Constitutional rights were suspended based on race. Mike will describe this experience through the eyes of a child.
At the April 2024 Board meeting, the Board approved making the Breakfast Zoom webinar and the live recording of the event available for FREE to members; however preregistration is required.
Pre-registration and payment (via PayPal Account, Venmo bank transfer) for the breakfast must be received by Monday, March 17, 2025. If you have paid for the in-person breakfast and find that you are unable to attend, you may watch the webinar live via the Zoom link or later via the Zoom video recording link. You must request access to the live link by contacting Mary Leuci no later than the day prior to the breakfast.
NOTE: The Zoom video recording will be available upon request for 45 days following the breakfast.
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. for in-person breakfast at the Country Club of Missouri on Forum Blvd ($15.00):
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. the Zoom webinar (free):
This is always a great event! A short program will recognize the Chancellor’s 2024 Faculty and Staff Retirees of the Year, MURA Kitty Dickerson Scholarship Recipients, and the retirees’ support of the University family. The $10 registration fee will go to the MURA Kitty Dickerson Scholarship Fund. Refreshments will be served. The deadline for registration is at noon on March 28.
While there is no cost to attend the Annual Meeting, please register below for in-person (or Zoom) to help us know the quantity of food and beverages to order. The deadline is Tuesday, February 25, 2025.
The MURA breakfast program on March 4 will feature Kara Whatley, MU’s new Vice Provost for Libraries and University Librarian. Ms. Whatley will provide an overview of what is new in the libraries and how retirees access the MU libraries whether or not you have an MU email address.
Prior to joining MU in 2024, Ms. Whatley was the university librarian at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and served as the chief executive of the Caltech Library system. Her previous roles include positions of increasing leadership at Texas Tech University Libraries and New York University Libraries. Throughout her career, she has shown a consistent strategic focus on catalyzing information discovery, preservation and sharing to support the university mission.
At the April 2024 Board meeting, the Board approved making the Breakfast Zoom webinar and the live recording of the event available for FREE to members; however preregistration is required.
Pre-registration and payment (via PayPal Account, Venmo bank transfer) for the breakfast must be received by Monday, February 17, 2025. If you have paid for the in-person breakfast and find that you are unable to attend, you may watch the webinar live via the Zoom link or later via the Zoom video recording link. You must request access to the live link by contacting Mary Leuci no later than the day prior to the breakfast.
NOTE: The Zoom video recording will be available upon request for 45 days following the breakfast.
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. for in-person breakfast at the Country Club of Missouri on Forum Blvd ($15.00):
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. the Zoom webinar (free):
