{"id":11852,"date":"2025-07-02T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=11852"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:37:13","slug":"energizing-the-nation-for-nextgen-murr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/07\/02\/energizing-the-nation-for-nextgen-murr\/","title":{"rendered":"Energizing the nation for NextGen MURR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/NextGenMURR_Render-1-scaled-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NextGenMURR_Render-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"A rendering of the NextGen MURR facility located at Discovery Ridge.\" class=\"wp-image-11854\" style=\"width:376px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A rendering of the NextGen MURR facility located at Discovery Ridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, I was thrilled to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/06\/26\/metro\/trump-administration-higher-education-funding\/\">this Boston Globe article<\/a> covering Mizzou and the critical <a href=\"https:\/\/nextgenmurr.missouri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NextGen MURR<\/a> Research Reactor initiative. The article highlighted the life-changing impact that the state-of-the-art reactor will have on nuclear medicine and cancer patients in Missouri, the country and around the globe by securing domestic supply of critical medical radioisotopes. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During last week\u2019s UM Board of Curators meeting, Chair Graves announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2025\/university-of-missouri-board-of-curators-announces-members-of-nextgen-murr-working-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NextGen MURR Working Group<\/a> to provide guidance and collaboration for all phases of the new reactor. This working group will provide the expert vision and support we need to achieve our ambitious goals and deliver a world-class research reactor facility.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umsystem.edu\/ums\/news\/news_releases\/202506121867587888_news\">thank Governor Kehoe and the Missouri legislature<\/a> for their continued support for this project. The 20-megawatt reactor will bring numerous opportunities, including creating thousands of jobs with tremendous economic benefits for our state and region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our university is flourishing, and its prestige is known throughout the world. With our commitment to dynamic research, outstanding education and advancing our land-grant mission, we continue making a difference and improving lives for all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I was thrilled to see this Boston Globe article covering Mizzou and the critical NextGen MURR Research Reactor initiative. The article highlighted the life-changing impact that the state-of-the-art reactor will have on nuclear medicine and cancer patients in Missouri, the country and around the globe by securing domestic supply of critical medical radioisotopes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}