Opportunities
Read below for details about faculty development, visiting scholars, hiring opportunities, and more. You can also read about external large-scale interdisciplinary opportunities and the Mizzou Center, MU’s presence in Blue Springs.
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Students
Hallmark-Mizzou Creative Fellowships
Spend a week of your creative talent by interacting with the world class Hallmark creative team. More…
Student travel awards
Travel with a faculty mentor to professional meetings, collaborative events, and conferences related to Mizzou Advantage areas. More…
Faculty and Staff
Mizzou Advantage “pitches”
In fall 2012, Mizzou Advantage will provide supplemental funds for existing and emerging networks in the Mizzou Advantage areas. Networks should be teams of faculty, staff, and students who are already working together on existing or emerging projects; however, they do not need to have been previously funded by Mizzou Advantage. More…
Faculty interdisciplinary development awards
These awards, of up to $2,000 each, are intended to help faculty better position themselves for interdisciplinary endeavors in Mizzou Advantage areas. More…
Travel to visit foundations and funding agencies
These awards are intended to help build critical relationships with agency program offices prior to proposal submissions for significant external funding. The awards will cover reasonable travel expenses. More…
Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors fund
Host outstanding scholars to deliver lectures, facilitate the development of joint research, serve as reviewers of MU academic programs, and promote other opportunities for networking. More…
Faculty mentoring funds for student travel and research
Student travel awards provide funding for upper-class undergraduate students who travel to professional meetings with a faculty mentor. They are intended to provide students with exposure to collaborative meetings and conferences related to Mizzou Advantage areas. More…
Undergraduate research teams bring faculty and students from across campus together to work on problem-based research projects, inspiring out-of-the-box collaborations. More…
Hiring opportunities
$50,000 matching funds
Mizzou Advantage has set aside matching, recurring funds to hire 20 faculty members over the next 5 years. These matches, $50,000 each, will be for positions that strengthen the emerging networks within Mizzou Advantage areas. More…
Chancellor’s Fund for Excellence endowed chairs
In addition to the 20 new hires, Chancellor Brady Deaton has announced that three new endowed chairs will be funded in order to enhance academic excellence and support Mizzou Advantage. More…