Another would be to take the advice of Dr. Elmer Ellis, president of the University of Missouri, and provide for an impartial professional analysis of Missouri's economy.

Although the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history.

* Previous editions of The World Factbook from the University of Missouri – St.

* Comic Art Collection at the University of Missouri

* Comic Art Collection at the University of Missouri

The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the location of the University of Missouri.

The founding of the University of Missouri in 1839 established the city as a center of education and research.

The University of Missouri Hospital, the largest hospital in Columbia

University of Missouri Health Care operates four hospitals: Columbia Regional Hospital, University of Missouri Hospital, Ellis Fischel Cancer Center and University of Missouri Children's Hospital.

The University of Missouri School of Medicine uses university owned facilities as teaching hospitals.

The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the largest research reactor in the U. S. and produces radioisotopes used in nuclear medicine.

* History of the University of Missouri

* Historic maps of Columbia in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri

* Drury University – Springfield, Missouri

* William Woods University – Fulton, Missouri

in English from Wabash College in 1970, and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Students also have the option of a dual degree plan in engineering between Hiram and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, or the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

* Missouri University of Science and Technology-Formerly known as the University of Missouri-Rolla ( UMR )-Rolla-A public, four-year university.

The Hall of Fame was founded as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 1996 by the Kansas City Science Fiction and Fantasy Society ( Kansas City, Missouri ) and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction ( CSSF ) at the University of Kansas ( KU ).

Maryville is home to Northwest Missouri State University, Northwest Technical School, and the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing.

* Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing

* The Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing ( Grades 11-12 )

It is the home of the Missouri University of Science and Technology, founded as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1870 and known as the University of Missouri – Rolla from 1964 through 2007.

In addition, the US Geological Survey operates a large regional facility with various centers: the National Geospatial Technical Operations Center III, the Missouri Water Science Center, the Mid-Continent Geographic Science Center, National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Office Liaisons, and the Rolla Science Information and Library Services office.

* Missouri University of Science and Technology has a half-scale Stonehenge replica built from solid granite located on campus, as well as an astronomical observatory and an operational nuclear reactor, which was the state's first.

* Information on Jay L. Torrey from a collection held by Missouri University of Science and Technology

The UM System was created in 1963 when the University of Missouri ( founded in 1839 in Columbia ) and its offshoot, the Missouri School of Mines ( now the Missouri University of Science & Technology ), founded in 1870 in Rolla, were combined with the formerly private University of Kansas City ( now University of Missouri-Kansas City, founded in 1933 ), and a newly created campus in suburban St. Louis ( University of Missouri-St. Louis ) in 1963.

* Missouri University of Science and Technology ( Missouri S & T or Rolla ) was founded in 1870 in Rolla.

Effective January 1, 2008, UM – Rolla became the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

It also is home to the Summit Technology Center which is a branch campus of the University of Central Missouri.

On 6 April 2007, the Board of Curators approved a proposal to rename the school the Missouri University of Science and Technology, effective 1 January 2008.

* Missouri University of Science and Technology

* Gary Thomas, deceased, provost and vice-president at NJIT, and Chancellor of the University of Missouri – Rolla ( currently known as Missouri University of Science and Technology ).

* Missouri University of Science and Technology

Category: Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni

* Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, former name of Missouri University of Science and Technology

J. David Rogers, a professor of geological engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, published a comprehensive account of geologic actions which likely led to the dam's failure.

Akers retired from NASA in 1997 and the Air Force in 1999 at the rank of Colonel, taking a position as instructor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri – Rolla, which in 2008 changed its name to the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

However, they often referred to nearby towns such as Joplin, Branson, Springfield, Tulsa, Silver Dollar City, all of which are in or near southwest Missouri.

Moreover, General Thomas Ewing, in response to a successful raid on nearby Lawrence, Kansas, led by William Quantrill, issued General Order No. 11, forcing the eviction of residents in four western Missouri counties — including Jackson — except those living in the city and nearby communities and those whose allegiance to the Union was certified by Ewing.

In 1833, Missouri settlers, alarmed by the rapid influx of Mormons, expelled them from Jackson County into the nearby Clay County, where local residents took them in.

The first salvo of the Soviet nuclear attack on the central United States ( as shown from the point of view of the residents of Kansas and western Missouri ) occurs at 3: 38 p. m. Central Daylight Time when a large-yield nuclear weapon is air burst at a high altitude over Kansas City, Missouri, in order to generate an electromagnetic pulse and disable any defensive weapons covering the nearby Minuteman III missile silos of Whiteman AFB.

He attended Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas and Raytown South High School in nearby Raytown, Missouri.

Vigilantes in the public and private sector used force to drive individual Saints from Jackson to nearby counties within Missouri ; eventually, Latter Day Saints were given until the end of November 6, 1833 to leave the county en masse.

The Oregon-California and Santa Fe Trails, pass through nearby Independence, Missouri, also passed through the county.

In 1862 Confederate Guerrillas from nearby Missouri led by William Quantrill raided the Johnson County communities of Olathe and Spring Hill, killing half a dozen men and destroying numerous homes and businesses.

Much of the county's geologic history must be inferred from nearby Oklahoma and Missouri research, due to the steepness of the more recently-formed mountains that did not form in the neighboring states.

When this cemetery was closed nine years later, Taylor Blow transferred Scott's coffin to a plot in the nearby Catholic cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, which permitted burial of non-Catholic slaves by Catholic owners.

* 25px US 36 begins at the nearby Rocky Mountain National Park, running to Uhrichsville, Ohio, passing through Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

Modale just stands for " Missouri-dale ", a reference to the nearby Missouri River.

Mount Sterling was first settled in the late 1830s when George and Horace Wood established a sawmill and corn-cracker to serve the small farms of southern Van Buren County and the northern portion of nearby Scotland County, Missouri.

Because there are no banks in Zalma, many residents choose to do their banking at nearby institutions such as the Bank of Advance in Advance, Peoples Community Bank, U. S. Bank, Bank of Missouri and Security Trust & Fund all in Marble Hill, although these are not limited.

Frank James stood trial for the robbery and was acquitted in a highly publicized trial in nearby Gallatin, Missouri

Due to its historic charm, Washington has a growing heritage tourism industry, with visitors also attracted to the nearby Missouri Rhineland.

Pete Taylor owned a canning plant in nearby Spickard, Missouri that canned tomatoes and other produce raised by local farmers.

Parents Robert W. and Charlotte Cannary are listed in the 1860 census living nearby in Ravanna, Mercer County, Missouri.

Malta Bend is named after the steamboat Malta that sank in a nearby bend in the Missouri river.

Recent construction on nearby Highway 65 and the continued success and growth of nearby Branson, Missouri have created a resurgence in downtown Hollister, many of the old storefronts are being revitalized and reopened as new businesses.

Nicknamed " the first city on the Missouri River " Townsend sits nearby the southern tip of Canyon Ferry Lake ( a part of, and fed by, the Missouri River ) a popular recreation destination and Montana's third largest body of water.