Februari 28, 2017
(music) (sounds of football) the mizzou football team is gearing up for another great year on the field. it isimportant to us that our athletes perform well in the classroom too. mizzou ranks highamong the big 12 in the ncaa academic progress rates, in fact leading in seven sports.this focus on being the best extends across all the campuses of the university of missouri.we realize that teaching and research is an investment in the future of our state. aninvestment that will result in: economic growth, improved health, and students who are solvingreal world problems.\
eating soy protein has many health benefits but finding a way americans will eat it isa challenge. two university of missouri - columbia scientists have created a soy substitutefor chicken so real it was featured in time magazine. harold huff, mu research specialist:the true vegetarian will love this product, and they can season it in any way they sodesire. it's also just a beautiful way to get soy incorporated into someone'sdiet who doesn't particularly think of soy as being a major food group type foodin other words your meat lovers. fu-hung hsieh, mu biological engineeringprofessor:
our goal is try to create a product whichwill look like chicken, feels like chicken and taste like chicken. the most difficultpart is to create the fiber structure. you will have to reach certain temperature, tocause protein to melt, and then force the protein molecule to untangle, and then forcethem to realign again to form the fibrous structure. narrator:mizzou biological engineering and food science professor, fu-hung hsieh starts theprocess with a soy protein extracted from soy flour, then applies water, heat and pressurethrough an extrusion cooking process that produces soy chicken that is hot and readyto eat in less than a minute.
it might not be real chicken, but the health benefits are the real thing. soy lowerscholesterol, helps maintain healthy bones and even prevents certain cancers. the fdaencourages 25 grams of soy protein in a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol. harold huff, mu research specialist:any time you can introduce a high quality protein into your diet without adding a lotof fat, cholesterol, that type of thing it usually ends up being good for you. narrator:at the university of missouri - kansas city, dr. ashim mitra and his team are workingon ways to deliver internal eye medicine without
needles. ashim mitra, curator's professor ofpharmacy and chairman of pharmaceutical sciences: the back of the eye diseases are becomingextremely common particularly in the caucasian population as well as aged, elderly populationabove 60 so there's a very good chance, one in ten may be affected with one of thediseases of the back of the eye and right now it's big needles going into the backof the eye which is painful therapy and right now we don't have any alternatives. it's a difficult task to deliver drugs to the back of the eye from the drop becausewe have a lot of barriers, a lot of tissues which protects the eye, but here we have somethingwhich gives you that alternative. so what
we are doing is we're making the soccerball with polymers which are bound together okay. the outside of the soccer ball is verywater soluble means it likes water and inside is very oil like, lipid rich, so that if yourdrug is lipid it's going to go inside, stay inside, it's not going to come out.and this soccer ball is so water soluble it goes easily through the white portion whichis the sclera. as it comes close to retina what it does is releases, it opens up, itreleases the drug and it goes into the retinal cells and is bound there. narrator:dr. mitra understands how the true impact of research extends beyond the lab.
ashim mitra, curator's professor ofpharmacy and chairman of pharmaceutical sciences: technology is always moving forward, newproducts are being delivered. so if you want to compete in a global environment or evenin the u.s. at other universities, you have to have research. narrator:dr. mariesa crow and her students at the missouri university of science and technologyare developing the needed know-how to make a future smart electrical grid that worksfor us. dr. mariesa crow, professor of electricalengineering and director of the energy research and development center:we have a very mature grid, it's very
robust i mean how often do the lights go offyou know i always like to point that out. you know our grid is more reliable for examplethan our laptops and our cars and many things. but we also have coming into this very maturetechnology, an influx of many new technologies. for example if you have a refrigerator, whichis a large load on the system when the compressor comes on and you also have your, you knowyour air conditioning system and maybe you have your dryer on, okay these are all bigloads on the system. now what we might have for example is we might have solar panelsor we might have wind and so the winds going to blow and we say okay this is a good timefor the air compressor to come on your refrigerator or the air conditioning system, what we'regoing to be doing with the smart grid is making
decisions about whether or not we should runour you know refrigerator compressor at the same time as our air conditioner. you knowwe can certainly wait ten minutes on our air conditioning you know let the refrigeratorcool down and then the air conditioning come on. we don't have that intelligence rightnow. you know right now they come on your lights dim when they turn on and that'snot good. you know and having the whole energy storage and renewable energy aspect you knowreally just adds a further dimension. narrator:transforming our nation's power grid is crucially important and dr. crow believesthat public universities like missouri s&t are best posed to conduct the research.
and development center:you know the one thing that we have in the public sector is that we have the abilityto collaborate and cooperate. you know we can say we've done this you know and whenyou have many people working on the same problem you know the best ideas will bubble up. narrator:from helping people manage rural issues to helping businesses in st. louis, mu extensionprograms bring knowledge and facts to all aspects of life. in the springfield area alone,mu extension program food power reached more than 2000 children last year. david martin, principal rountree elementaryschool springfield, mo.:
food power i think is especially importantright now at this point in our nation because i believe there's an epidemic of obesityand we have got to start teaching this generation good eating habits, healthy eating habitsso that we can get this thing turned around. (music:gotta wash you gotta washyour hands got to wash gotta wash) malasia clark, second grade student,rountree elementary school springfield mo we had something really cool, we got to learn something about what's in our bodyand our health. susan jenkins, second grade teacher atrountree elementary school springfield mo i think anytime you have learning where
they can actually be a part of it and do whatthey're trying to learn they're really going to understand a lot more. when the kidswent up to the teeth and saw the mouth they're like oh no i'm going to be eaten and theywere so excited to go inside. sierra laduke, second grade student, rountreeelementary school springfield mo i liked it because it was teaching meto learn stuff i didn't know. trendyn downey, second grade student, rountreeelementary school springfield mo food power is where people tell you goodstuff about your body. rylan powers, second grade student, rountreeelementary school springfield mo i'm going to exercise more.
isabelle mills-hosmer, second grade student,rountree elementary school springfield mo we learned that there is five food groups. brenda shannon, sw region/food power coordinator,university of missouri extension: there's a lot of stuff out there. there'sa lot of incorrect stuff out there and by stuff i mean nutrition related everythingfrom books to curriculum. so by the university developing its own curriculum we, we'reassured that the information, the education that we're teaching is research based,it's current, it's up to date and it's relevant. narrator:jason weirich, professor of weed science
at the university of missouri delta centerhas solutions to manage herbicide resistant weeds. jason weirich, phd, research professorof weed science: this is amaranth it's palmer rye orpalmer amaranth, or curtis weed as some of you may know it. it's becoming tough controlwith roundup, it's resistant to roundup in the bootheel of missouri. the problem withthis weed species is it can grow three to four five inches a day and each plant hasthe potential to produce five to six hundred thousand seeds per plant. we also have anotherweed, horseweed that is resistant to roundup as well. in other part of missouri may betall water hemp or water hemp it's very
similar to palmer amaranth in its characteristicsof growing. the reason why some of these weeds have developed resistance is the over useof a single herbicide. one way we can avoid doing that is using different herbicides. narrator:in addition to rotating herbicides to manage these new weeds, farmers are goingto have to return to many practices from the past. cultivation's been around for years,to effectively till the weeds out of that crop. another thing that a lot of producersare using around is wick bars. the only difference is now we use another herbicide instead ofback then was using glyphosate.
we need to be scouting our fields when we'reharvesting. need to be taking notes and mapping these fields out where the weed populationsare that we're having trouble controlling with and taking a molboard out there and turnthat soil over six inches and getting that seed buried. narrator:other management practices include applying herbicides in a more timely manner, rotatingcrops as well as chemistries, and the return of good old hoe crews to manually chop theweeds from the field. the days of easy weed control are over,we're going to be spending a lot more time managing these weeds than we have in the past.we're going to be managing them on a weekly
basis instead of a monthly basis. narrator:although controlling weeds will require more effort, farmers who adopt the best managementpractice will make more money than the lost in yield if the resistant weeds go unchecked. we can effectively manage these weedswith the best management practice, and make just as money per acre as you would of witha continuous glyphosate system. narrator:9 out of 10 adults over fifty need bifocal glasses yet there's been no major changein that technology for 200 years, until now. dr. guoqiang li:the bifocal eyeglasses was invented by
benjamin franklin 230 years ago and then thetrifocal eyeglasses was invented by joe hawkins about 100 more than 180 years ago. so sincethen there has no significant change. when people use the current bifocal eyeglassesthey use only a small strip in the bottom of the eyeglasses for reading. and for ourglass we can use the entire lens for reading, for watching tv and also for distance visionso for every task you can use the entire lens. by tracking the movement of the two eyes weare able to determine how far is the object from the viewer. and then by using that sensorwe can determine the distance and then the eyeglasses are able to automatically adjustfor the power. our lens will be fast enough for switching the near vision and the farvision, so this can be critical for driving
you know. narrator:dr. guoqiang li and the university have patents pending for this new type of lensand will soon be testing wearable proto types. if commercialization goes well, you can expectglasses with variable lenses to hit the market in about five years. dr. guoqiang li:you know for the progressive eyeglasses one piece of lens is between 300 to 500 dollars.we think that it is feasible to make our glass at the cost of that that range. narrator:these are just a few of the ways that
the university of missouri works to fulfillits critical missions: teaching, research, service, and developingmissouri's economy. the university of missouri makes a difference,everyday. (music)
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