University of Missouri

The University of Missouri, called Mizzou or MU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1839, it was the first public university west of the Mississippi River. Its Missouri School of Journalism, founded by Walter Williams in 1908, was established as the world's first journalism school and publishes the daily Columbia Missourian. The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the sole source of isotopes in nuclear medicine in the United States, and two alumni and faculty have won Nobel Prizes: Frederick Chapman Robbins in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 and George Smith in Chemistry in 2018.