{"id":12186,"date":"2025-09-16T13:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=12186"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T18:13:37","slug":"ribbon-cutting-launches-2025-homecoming-blood-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2025\/09\/16\/ribbon-cutting-launches-2025-homecoming-blood-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbon cutting launches 2025 Homecoming Blood Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1915\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Choi at the ribbon cutting\" class=\"wp-image-12191\" style=\"width:auto;height:285px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1.jpg 1915w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1-768x1027.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1-1149x1536.jpg 1149w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/Blood-Drive-1-scaled-1-1532x2048.jpg 1532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1915px) 100vw, 1915px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Choi at the ribbon cutting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, I stopped by MizzouRec for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the official start of our 42<sup>nd<\/sup> annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizzou.com\/s\/1002\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1002&amp;gid=1001&amp;pgid=10459\">Homecoming Blood Drive<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative is one of the largest student-run blood drives in the nation. In 2024, we collected nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/mizzou-community-breaks-homecoming-service-records\/\">5,000 units of blood<\/a>! I know we can continue to make a difference this year and grow our impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blood drive runs through this Thursday, September 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Appointments are encouraged by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/rcblood.org\/4lZekpk\">RedCrossBlood.org<\/a>\u00a0and entering sponsor code\u00a0<strong>MIZZOU<\/strong>. Walk-ins are also welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blood drive is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizzou.com\/s\/1002\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1002&amp;gid=1001&amp;pgid=10458\">many Homecoming events<\/a> Mizzou students organize to give back and unite our community leading up to our September 27 game against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to thank the student members of the Blood Drive Committee and the entire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mizzou.com\/s\/1002\/alumni\/19\/interior.aspx?sid=1002&amp;gid=1001&amp;sitebuilder=1&amp;pgid=10482\">Homecoming Steering Committee<\/a>. Your hard work brings pride to Tigers everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I stopped by MizzouRec for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the official start of our 42nd annual Homecoming Blood Drive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-12186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}