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73-483: WIYN is a Ritchey–Chrétien telescope with an altitude-azimuth mount . The lightweight borosilicate primary mirror has a diameter of 3.49885 m (137.75") and was manufactured at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab . Sixty-six active optics actuators support the primary mirror. The telescope is located in a half- Rhombicuboctahedron dome. Hydra is a multiobject spectrograph using fiber optics robotically positioned in

146-481: A City Beautiful design of the grounds. To the east of the quadrangle, later buildings constructed of white limestone in 1913 and 1914 to accommodate the new academic programs became known as the White Campus. In 1908 the journalism school opened at MU, claiming to be the world's first. In April 1923, a black janitor was accused of the rape of the daughter of a University of Missouri professor. James T. Scott

219-634: A Ritchey–Chrétien system, the conic constants K 1 {\displaystyle K_{1}} and K 2 {\displaystyle K_{2}} of the two mirrors are chosen so as to eliminate third-order spherical aberration and coma; the solution is: and Note that K 1 {\displaystyle K_{1}} and K 2 {\displaystyle K_{2}} are less than − 1 {\displaystyle -1} (since M > 1 {\displaystyle M>1} ), so both mirrors are hyperbolic. (The primary mirror

292-546: A hyperbolic secondary mirror designed to eliminate off-axis optical errors ( coma ). The RCT has a wider field of view free of optical errors compared to a more traditional reflecting telescope configuration. Since the mid 20th century, a majority of large professional research telescopes have been Ritchey–Chrétien configurations; some well-known examples are the Hubble Space Telescope , the Keck telescopes and

365-654: A landmark 6–2 decision, the court ordered the State of Missouri to admit Gaines to MU's law school or provide a facility of equal stature. Gaines disappeared in Chicago on March 19, 1939, under suspicious circumstances. The university granted Gaines a posthumous honorary law degree in May 2006. Undergraduate divisions were integrated by court order in 1950 when the university was compelled to admit African Americans to courses that were not offered at Lincoln University. On June 5, 1935,

438-411: A larger usable field of view compared to the parabolic designs actually used. However, Ritchey and Hale had a falling-out. With the 100-inch project already late and over budget, Hale refused to adopt the new design, with its hard-to-test curvatures, and Ritchey left the project. Both projects were then built with traditional optics. Since then, advances in optical measurement and fabrication have allowed

511-635: A major upgrade to the "gripper" fiber positioning robot. Funded by the NN-EXPLORE collaboration between NASA and the National Science Foundation , the NEID spectrograph searches for extra-solar planets by looking for minute variations in the radial velocity of the host star caused by the orbiting planet(s). The extremely precise radial velocities (50 cm/s) provided by NEID will provide masses and densities for exoplanets discovered by

584-526: A maximum of 1600, and an average ACT composite score of 26 out of a maximum of 36. The University of Missouri operates 23 on-campus residence halls and at least two other off-campus sites. The two off-campus locations include Tiger Diggs at Campus View Apartments and True Scholars House. Tap Day is an annual spring ceremony in which the identities of the members of the six secret honor societies are revealed. The participating societies are QEBH , Mystical Seven , LSV , Omicron Delta Kappa , Mortar Board , and

657-514: A nearly 100 ft (30 m) wide "M" behind the north-end zone. Men's and women's basketball games take place at the Mizzou Arena , just south of the football stadium. The Hearnes Center hosted men's and women's basketball from 1972 to 2004 and it is still used for other athletic (including wrestling, volleyball, and indoor track and field) and school events. The Missouri Tiger men's basketball team has had 29 NCAA Tournament appearances,

730-540: A newsroom managed by professional editors. It operates the local National Public Radio Station KBIA and produces Radio Adelante , a Spanish-language radio program. Founded in 1978 after 23 years as a unit of the School of Medicine, the School of Health Professions became an autonomous division in December 2000. It is Missouri's only state-supported school of health professions on a campus with an academic health center, and

803-487: A small optical device called a null corrector that makes the hyperbolic primary look spherical for the interferometric test. On the Hubble Space Telescope , this device was built incorrectly (a reflection from an un-intended surface leading to an incorrect measurement of lens position) leading to the error in the Hubble primary mirror. Incorrect null correctors have led to other mirror fabrication errors as well, such as in

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876-451: A year. The Science Steering Committee provides scientific guidance to the board and the WIYN director. From 2000 to 2008, the WIYN director was George Jacoby, followed by Pierre Martin (2008–2010). From 2010 to 2013, Pat Knezek served as interim director. Since 2013, Eric Hooper (UW-Madison) has served as interim director. Yale University withdrew from the WIYN consortium on April 1, 2014 and

949-578: Is Truman the Tiger , created on September 16, 1986. Following a campus-wide contest, Truman was named in honor of Harry S. Truman , the only U.S. president from Missouri. Truman appears to cheer on the team, mingle with athletic supporters, visit alumni association functions, and visit Columbia-area schools. On November 6, 2011, the University of Missouri announced it would leave the Big 12 Conference to join

1022-405: Is available. MiniMo is a CCD consisting of two 2048 × 4096 pixel chips, with a field of view of 9.6 arcminutes . The two separate chips allow for faster readout of the image than would have been otherwise possible, as they can be read out simultaneously. [2] The WIYN Consortium is governed by a board of directors, which includes three members of each partner institution. The board meets twice

1095-433: Is flanked to the east and west by Greek Life housing . The University of Missouri has nearly 50 national social fraternities and sororities, many of which occupy historical residences valued in the millions of dollars. Beta Sigma Psi , Kappa Alpha Order , Sigma Chi , Beta Theta Pi (originally Zeta Phi ), Alpha Gamma Rho , Tau Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Nu form a Greek Row (also called Frat Row) along College Avenue in

1168-597: Is the historic core of mostly brick academic buildings around the landmark columns of the Francis Quadrangle ; it includes Jesse Hall and Switzler Hall . In the early 20th century, the College of Agriculture received several new buildings. The new buildings, constructed in Neo-Gothic style from native Missouri limestone , form the White Campus. This includes Memorial Union . During the 1990s, Red Campus

1241-460: Is typically quite close to being parabolic, however.) The hyperbolic curvatures are difficult to test, especially with equipment typically available to amateur telescope makers or laboratory-scale fabricators; thus, older telescope layouts predominate in these applications. However, professional optics fabricators and large research groups test their mirrors with interferometers . A Ritchey–Chrétien then requires minimal additional equipment, typically

1314-539: The American Civil War forced the university to close for much of the year. Residents of Columbia formed a Union "home guard" militia that became known as the "Fighting Tigers of Columbia". They were given the name for their readiness to protect the city and university. In 1890, the university's newly formed football team took the name the "Tigers" after the Civil War militia. In 1870, the institution

1387-612: The American Civil War , Union troops used the library in Academic Hall as a guard room. They caused significant damage, including taking 467 volumes to build fires. The board of curators later sued the US Army for the destruction on campus. Settled in 1915, the suit's award was used to build the Memorial Gateway on the northern edge of Red Campus. In 1913, construction began on a new main library, completed in 1915. It

1460-669: The Guinness Record as the nation's largest. The Missouri Tigers are a member of the Southeastern Conference except wrestling, which competes in the Big 12 Conference . Mizzou is the only school in the state with all of its sports in the NCAA Division I and a football team that competes in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). These are the highest levels of college sports in

1533-743: The Missouri Tigers and compete in the Southeastern Conference . The American tradition of homecoming is widely recognized to have originated at MU. In 1839, the Missouri Legislature passed the Geyer Act to establish funds for a state university. It was the first public university west of the Mississippi River . To secure the university, the citizens of Columbia and Boone County pledged $ 117,921 in cash and land to beat out five other central Missouri counties for

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1606-560: The New Technology Telescope . In practice, each of these designs may also include any number of flat fold mirrors , used to bend the optical path into more convenient configurations. This article only discusses the mirrors required for forming an image, not those for placing it in a convenient location. Ritchey intended the 100-inch Mount Wilson Hooker telescope (1917) and the 200-inch (5 m) Hale Telescope to be RCTs. His designs would have provided sharper images over

1679-785: The Southeastern Conference effective July 1, 2012. In September 2012, the school's wrestling team became an associate member of the Mid-American Conference , as the SEC does not sponsor wrestling. In 2016, there were 300,315 living alumni worldwide. Of those, 274,447 resided in the United States, 156,585 in Missouri , 61,346 in the St. Louis metropolitan area , 30,018 in the Kansas City metropolitan area , and 2,718 outside

1752-512: The TESS space telescope . The name NEID comes from the Tohono Oʼodham word for "to see." The spectrograph was designed and built at Pennsylvania State University , with the construction beginning in 2016. The Port Adapter portion of the instrument, which provides guiding, focus correction, fast tip-tilt correction , and atmospheric dispersion correction to the starlight before injecting it into

1825-668: The United States Naval Observatory ; that telescope is still in operation at the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station . As with the other Cassegrain-configuration reflectors, the Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT) has a very short optical tube assembly and compact design for a given focal length . The RCT offers good off-axis optical performance, but its mirrors require sophisticated techniques to manufacture and test. Hence

1898-812: The University of Missouri System is led by a chancellor , who reports to the president of the UM System. Presidents, 1841–1863 and Chancellors, 1963–present MU is a member of the Association of American Universities and classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The oldest global university ranking project, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking), places MU at 60-78 nationally and 201-300 globally as of 2024. The ranking largely takes into account research output and faculty prestige. In 2024

1971-478: The focal plane to allow up to 100 separate objects to be observed at a time. The light is guided to a spectrograph room under the main telescope where a CCD camera records the spectrum of each object. The field of view is approximately 1 degree. [1] Hydra has been operating since 1990. It was originally located at the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope before being moved to WIYN in 1994. In 2021, Hydra received

2044-485: The ESO Very Large Telescope . The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope was invented in the early 1910s by American astronomer George Willis Ritchey and French astronomer Henri Chrétien . Ritchey constructed the first successful RCT, which had an aperture diameter of 60 cm (24 in) in 1927 (Ritchey 24-inch reflector). The second RCT was a 102 cm (40 in) instrument constructed by Ritchey for

2117-599: The East Campus area. Delta Tau Delta , Kappa Sigma , Lambda Chi Alpha , and Sigma Alpha Epsilon are in the West Campus area along Stewart Street, which leads directly into the Francis Quadrangle . Most of the Greek-letter organizations are in a Greek Town, with approximately 30 Greek residences, to the north of Memorial Stadium. In 2019 a new Center for Missouri Studies was opened as a new headquarters for

2190-498: The Greek Community represents 22% of the student population. More than 70 Greek-letter organizations are active at MU. In 1911, athletic director Chester Brewer invited alumni to "come home" for the big football game against the University of Kansas . A spirit rally and parade were planned as part of the celebration. Missouri Homecoming also includes several service elements, and the homecoming blood drive has earned

2263-610: The RCT design to take over – the Hale telescope, dedicated in 1948, turned out to be the last world-leading telescope to have a parabolic primary mirror. University of Missouri The University of Missouri ( Mizzou or MU ) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri , United States. It is Missouri 's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System . Founded in 1839, MU

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2336-533: The Ritchey–Chrétien configuration is most commonly found on high-performance professional telescopes. A telescope with only one curved mirror, such as a Newtonian telescope , will always have aberrations. If the mirror is spherical, it will suffer primarily from spherical aberration . If the mirror is made parabolic, to correct the spherical aberration, then it still suffers from coma and astigmatism , since there are no additional design parameters one can vary to eliminate them. With two non-spherical mirrors, such as

2409-504: The Ritchey–Chrétien telescope, coma can be eliminated as well, by making the two mirrors' contribution to total coma cancel. This allows a larger useful field of view. However, such designs still suffer from astigmatism. The basic Ritchey–Chrétien two-surface design is free of third-order coma and spherical aberration . However, the two-surface design does suffer from fifth-order coma, severe large-angle astigmatism , and comparatively severe field curvature . When focused midway between

2482-513: The Rollins Society. The ceremony, first held in 1927, takes place at the columns on Francis Quadrangle. The Trulaske Consulting Association was started in 2009. It is open to students of all departments. However, most members are MBA and undergrad business students. The association aims to increase awareness, provide exposure, and facilitate networking between students and professionals in the consulting industry. The growing popularity of

2555-514: The Schmidt requires a full-aperture corrector plate, which restricts it to apertures below 1.2 meters, while a Ritchey–Chrétien can be much larger. Other telescope designs with front-correcting elements are not limited by the practical problems of making a multiply-curved Schmidt corrector plate, such as the Lurie–Houghton design . In a Ritchey–Chrétien design, as in most Cassegrain systems,

2628-609: The State Historical Society of Missouri. In 2020, a new home for the School of Music was finished, the Sinquefield Music Center. The campus is the major setting for the 1965 novel Stoner by John Edward Williams . Protagonist William Stoner is an English professor who was raised on a farm in nearby Boonville. The University of Missouri is organized into seven colleges, and eleven schools and hosts approximately 300 majors. Upon creation of

2701-849: The Tigers went undefeated in the Big Eight to take the regular season title. In 2009, Missouri won its first Big 12 Championship over Baylor . Missouri went on to win its second Big 12 Championship in its final season in the Big 12 in 2012, once again defeating Baylor. Standout players from the Mizzou's basketball team include Anthony Peeler , John Brown, Jon Sundvold , Steve Stipanovich , Kareem Rush , Keyon Dooling Doug Smith , Willie Smith, Norm Stewart , Linas Kleiza , Derrick Chievous , DeMarre Carroll , Kim English , Jordan Clarkson , and Marcus Denmon . The official mascot for Missouri Tigers athletics

2774-725: The U.S. Other alumni, faculty, and staff include 18 Rhodes Scholars , 19 Truman Scholars , 150 Fulbright Scholars , 7 Governors of Missouri, and 6 members of the U.S. Congress . Two alumni and faculty have been awarded the Nobel Prize: alumnus Frederick Chapman Robbins won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 and George Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2018 while affiliated with

2847-545: The United States. Their official colors are black and gold. Athletic sports for the Tigers include men's and women's basketball, baseball, cross country , football , golf, gymnastics, swimming & diving , softball , track, tennis, volleyball, women's soccer , and wrestling . Historic sports included a shooting club, in which the ladies' team in 1934 won a national championship. MU football games are on Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium ("The Zou"). Built in 1926, this stadium has an official capacity of 71,168, and features

2920-589: The University of Missouri Board of Curators approved legislation to designate the South Farm of the College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (CAFNR) as a research park. The 114-acre (46.1 ha) park, three miles (4.8 km) southeast of the main campus on US63 is Discovery Ridge Research Park. Tenants at Discovery Ridge include ABC Laboratories and the MU Research Animal Diagnostic Laboratory. The main campus

2993-507: The University of Missouri is 1,262-acre (2.0 sq mi; 510.7 ha) just south of Downtown Columbia and is maintained as a botanical garden . The historical campus is centered on Francis Quadrangle , a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places , and contains several buildings on the register. The academic buildings are classified into two main groups: Red Campus and White Campus. Red Campus

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3066-423: The administration of Missouri Governor David R. Francis , the university was rebuilt, with additions that shaped the modern institution. After the fire, some state residents tried to have the university moved farther west to Sedalia ; but Columbia rallied support to keep it. The columns were retained as a symbol of the historic campus. They are surrounded by the Francis Quadrangle , the oldest part of campus. At

3139-549: The association has been attributed to the resources available to student members. Workshops by management consultants and case studies on strategy form an integral part of the activities organized by TCA. The Muslim Student Organisation (MSO) is for the Muslims at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute explores the modern significance of the Ten Commandments. Founded in 1869,

3212-428: The core area of campus. Rothwell Gymnasium and Brewer Fieldhouse are part of the 283,579-square-foot (26,345.4 m ) Student Recreation Center, which was ranked number one in the nation in 2005 by Sports Illustrated . The main campus of the University of Missouri Hospitals and Clinics is north of the sports complex. It includes the University of Missouri Hospital and Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital . Two of

3285-480: The era of wide-field surveys. ODI is funded by the WIYN partners and the National Science Foundation. ODI was first commissioned in a partial or prototype configuration (pODI) using 13 OTAs in the summer of 2012, and was available for science observations since early 2013. pODI was decommissioned in late 2014 to undergo a significant upgrade. The upgraded ODI, now using 30 OTAs in a 5x6 layout

3358-542: The hospitals, Columbia Regional Hospital and Ellis Fischel Cancer Center , are northeast of the main campus near I-70. To the south of the MU Sports Park is the MU Research Park. It includes the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, International Institute for Nano and Molecular Medicine, MU Life Science Business Incubator at Monsanto Place, and Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. In 2005,

3431-484: The location of the state university. The land on which the university was constructed was just south of Columbia's downtown and owned by James S. Rollins who was later called the "Father of the University." As the first public university in the Louisiana Purchase , the school was shaped by Thomas Jefferson 's ideas about public education. The school initially admitted only white male students. In 1862,

3504-496: The north end of the Carnahan Quadrangle were unveiled in 2014. Called Traditions Plaza, it was opened on October 25, 2014, during homecoming festivities. The original MU intercollegiate athletic facilities, such as Rollins Field and Rothwell Gymnasium, were just south of the academic buildings. Expanded facilities were constructed across Stadium Boulevard, where Memorial Stadium opened in 1926. The Hearnes Center

3577-673: The only allied health school in the UM system. The university maintains the largest library collection in the State of Missouri. In the 2011–12 academic year, it held 3.1 million volumes, 8.1 million microforms, 678,596 e-books, almost 1.7 million government documents, more than 284,000 print maps, and more than 53,000 journal subscriptions. The collection is housed in Ellis Library , the University Archives, and seven other specialized academic libraries across campus. During

3650-510: The optical fiber feeding the spectrograph, was built by the University of Wisconsin in collaboration with NOAO. On June 2, 2021, NEID completed commissioning. The NEID is also assisted by The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) with super-computer time and expertise in the scientific search for new exoplanets. The One Degree Imager (ODI) is the flagship of WIYN's new instrument initiatives. ODI utilizes both WIYN's one degree field of view and excellent image quality. The original design for ODI

3723-711: The primary and secondary mirrors, respectively, in a two-mirror Cassegrain configuration are: and where If, instead of B {\displaystyle B} and D {\displaystyle D} , the known quantities are the focal length of the primary mirror, f 1 {\displaystyle f_{1}} , and the distance to the focus behind the primary mirror, b {\displaystyle b} , then D = f 1 ( F − b ) / ( F + f 1 ) {\displaystyle D=f_{1}(F-b)/(F+f_{1})} and B = D + b {\displaystyle B=D+b} . For

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3796-448: The quad's southern end is Academic Hall 's replacement, Jesse Hall , named for Richard Jesse (the president of the university at the time of the fire). Built in 1895, Jesse Hall holds many administrative offices and Jesse Auditorium. The buildings surrounding the quad were constructed of red brick, leading to this area becoming known as Red Campus . The area was tied together in planned landscaping and walks in 1910 by George Kessler in

3869-506: The result is a three-mirror anastigmat . Alternatively, a RCT may use one or several low-power lenses in front of the focal plane as a field-corrector to correct astigmatism and flatten the focal surface, as for example the SDSS telescope and the VISTA telescope ; this can allow a field-of-view up to around 3° diameter. The Schmidt camera can deliver even wider fields up to about 7°. However,

3942-407: The sagittal and tangential focusing planes, stars appear as circles, making the Ritchey–Chrétien well suited for wide field and photographic observations. The remaining aberrations of the two-element basic design may be improved with the addition of smaller optical elements near the focal plane. Astigmatism can be cancelled by including a third curved optical element. When this element is a mirror,

4015-665: The second-most Tournament appearances without a Final Four . The Tigers have appeared in the regional finals (Elite Eight) of the NCAA Tournament six times (twice under coach Norm Stewart, Missouri head coach from 1967 to 1999). The Tigers have won 15 conference championships, beginning with the Missouri Valley Conference , followed by the Big Six , the Big Eight , and the Big 12 Conference . In 1994,

4088-487: The secondary mirror blocks a central portion of the aperture. This ring-shaped entrance aperture significantly reduces a portion of the modulation transfer function (MTF) over a range of low spatial frequencies, compared to a full-aperture design such as a refractor. This MTF notch has the effect of lowering image contrast when imaging broad features. In addition, the support for the secondary (the spider) may introduce diffraction spikes in images. The radii of curvature of

4161-478: The system, each university was renamed with its host city; thus, the university in Columbia became the University of Missouri–Columbia. In the proceeding decades, colloquial and verbal usage of the generic name of MU continued. There were attempts to drop Columbia from its name by students, faculty, alumni, and administrators who said it might cause the university to be perceived as a regional institution. This change

4234-437: The university encompassed a normal college (for training of teachers of students through high school), engineering college, arts, and science college, school of agriculture and mechanical arts. school of medicine, and school of law. On January 9, 1892, Academic Hall , the institution's central administrative building, burned in a fire that gutted the building, leaving little more standing than six stone Ionic columns . Under

4307-563: The university erected a memorial to the Confederate soldiers of Missouri; it was popularly known as Confederate Rock. The monument was removed in 1974. Following the 2015–16 University of Missouri protests , the chancellor and system president resigned amid racial complaints by students. Due to the emerging COVID-19 Pandemic , the university canceled classes on March 11, 2020, and resumed teaching in person in August. The campus of

4380-553: The university's colleges and operates the University of Missouri High School , a distance learning K-12 high school. In the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 Best Online Programs, MU ranks 28th in the best online bachelor’s degree programs out of 339 universities nationwide. MU is the largest public university in Missouri. Of those applying for freshman admission, 78.1% are admitted with those matriculating having an average GPA of 3.6, an average SAT composite score of 1232 out of

4453-545: The university's research and development expenditures were $ 462 million as submitted to the National Science Foundation. MU is also one of two land-grant universities in the state, along with Lincoln University . In 1908, the Missouri School of Journalism was founded in Columbia. It has been ranked the top journalism school in the United States several times by the NewsPro–RTDNA survey. Although it claims to be

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4526-609: The world's first, the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris was established in 1899. The UM System owns and operates KOMU-TV , the NBC / CW affiliate for Columbia and nearby Jefferson City . It is a full-fledged commercial station and a working lab for journalism students. The MU School of Journalism publishes the Columbia Missourian and Vox Magazine where students learn reporting, editing, and design in

4599-435: Was abducted from the Boone County Jail by a lynch mob of townsfolk and students and was hanged from a bridge near the campus. In late 1935, four graduates of Lincoln University —a traditionally black school about 30 miles (48 km) away in Jefferson City —were denied admission to MU's graduate school. One of the students, Lloyd L. Gaines , brought his case to the United States Supreme Court . On December 12, 1938, in

4672-428: Was built to the east of the stadium in 1972. In 1994, the university developed the first draft of a master plan for the campus to tie together all of Tiger athletic facilities to the south of Stadium Boulevard and add to its design. The MU Sports Park includes the Mizzou Arena , Taylor Stadium , Walton Stadium , Mizzou Athletics Training Complex, University Field and Devine Pavilion. Student athletic facilities remain in

4745-449: Was established as the world's first journalism school ; it publishes a daily newspaper, the Columbia Missourian , and operates NBC affiliate KOMU . The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the sole source of isotopes in nuclear medicine in the United States. The university operates University of Missouri Health Care , running several hospitals and clinics in Mid-Missouri . Its NCAA Division I athletic teams are

4818-455: Was expanded in 1935, 1958, and 1985. It was dedicated as Elmer Ellis Library on October 10, 1972, in honor of the thirteenth president of the University of Missouri. The MU libraries are home to the 47th largest research collection in North America. MU merged two departments, the Center for Distance and Independent Study and MU Direct: Continuing and Distance Education, to form Mizzou Online in 2011. Mizzou Online offers online courses for 18 of

4891-402: Was extended to the south with the creation of the Carnahan Quadrangle. Hulston Hall of the University of Missouri School of Law , completed in 1988, formed the eastern border of the future quad. The Reynolds Alumni Center was completed in 1992 on the west side of the new quad. It was completed in 2002 with Cornell Hall of the Trulaske College of Business and Tiger Plaza. Plans for a new plaza on

4964-420: Was granted land-grant college status under the Morrill Act of 1862. The act led to the founding of the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy as an offshoot of the main campus in Columbia. It developed as the present-day Missouri University of Science and Technology . In 1888, the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station opened. This grew to encompass ten centers and research farms around Missouri. By 1890,

5037-444: Was long resisted by the UM System and the other universities based on uniformity and fairness. However, after a renewed effort for "name restoration", the board of curators voted unanimously on November 29, 2007, to allow MU to drop Columbia from its name for all public use. The name University of Missouri–Columbia continues to be advocated by some faculty, administration, and alumni of UMKC, UMSL, and Missouri S&T. Each campus of

5110-495: Was recommissioned in summer 2015 and has been available for science observations since October 2015. WHIRC is a near infrared high resolution imaging camera commissioned in 2008. WHIRC was a joint project between the WIYN partners and STScI . It consists of a 2k × 2k detector providing an excellent pixel scale of 0.1"/pixel and a field of view of 200 × 200 arcsec. WHIRC can be used with the WIYN Tip/Tilt Module (WTTM) to provide exquisite high-resolution images. A large set of filters

5183-406: Was replaced by the University of Missouri in the fall of that year. In 2015, a NASA-NSF partnership called NN-EXPLORE effectively took over NOAO's share, although NOAO still manages the operations. Ritchey%E2%80%93Chr%C3%A9tien telescope A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope ( RCT or simply RC ) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and

5256-419: Was the first public university west of the Mississippi River . It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity." Enrolling 31,041 students in 2023, it offers more than 300 degree programs in thirteen major academic divisions. Its Missouri School of Journalism , founded by Walter Williams in 1908,

5329-411: Was to cover the one square degree field using a total of 64 Orthogonal Transfer Arrays (OTAs) with a total of 1 GigaPixel and a pixelscale of 0.11 arcseconds per pixel. Orthogonal transfer arrays allow to actively improve image sharpness by correcting images for tip/tilt motion during the integration. Corrections will be done over the entire field of view, making ODI a unique and competitive instrument in

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