{"id":9496,"date":"2023-12-14T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2023-12-14T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T18:13:33","slug":"celebrating-a-successful-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/12\/14\/celebrating-a-successful-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a successful year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/20230512_Graduation-Doctorate_ANL-025-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/20230512_Graduation-Doctorate_ANL-025-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"President Choi at a commencement ceremony.\" class=\"wp-image-9497\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fall semester is wrapping up, and there\u2019s plenty to celebrate at the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On campus, we look forward to recognizing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2023\/more-than-1780-to-receive-degrees-from-mizzou\/\">more than 1,780 Tigers<\/a>&nbsp;who will receive degrees during commencement ceremonies this weekend. Congratulations to all our graduates on their accomplishments. They are well prepared to make a difference in Missouri and our nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Sullivan.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Sullivan-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Head volleyball coach Dawn Sullivan.\" class=\"wp-image-9498\" style=\"width:175px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Sullivan-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/Sullivan.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Coach Dawn Sullivan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our student-athletes have also achieved incredible success, including Mizzou Volleyball, which just finished a historic first season with Head Coach Dawn Sullivan. The Tigers made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament, and three players \u2013 Maya Sands, Jordan Iliff and Lauren Forbes \u2013 were named to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2023\/12\/12\/sands-forbes-and-iliff-named-to-academic-all-district-volleyball-team.aspx\">Academic All-District Team<\/a>. Coach Sullivan was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/news\/2023\/11\/29\/volleyball-dawn-sullivan.aspx\">named SEC Volleyball Coach of the Year<\/a>. Congratulations to Coach Sullivan and the entire team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MU community accomplished so much in 2023 \u2013 from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2023\/mu-health-care-pilots-breakthrough-treatment-for-prostate-cancer\/\">cancer-fighting breakthroughs at MURR<\/a>&nbsp;to a record 76% graduation rate. We look forward to even more excellence in teaching, research and engagement in the new year, and to cheering on all our student-athletes competing over break \u2013 including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mutigers.com\/feature\/BowlGame2023\">Mizzou Football in the Cotton Bowl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope all our students, faculty and staff have a great holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fall semester is wrapping up, and there\u2019s plenty to celebrate at the University of Missouri.<\/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-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","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=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}