Chancellor's Distinguished Visitors Program
An important component of any university’s stature and the quality of the academic experience it offers is the presence of prominent scholars on campus who spend time engaging the campus community, getting to know students and faculty, and participating in its academic programs and research. With this in mind, the Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program was launched in 2008 as an effort to enhance academic networks at MU by increasing our interactions with world-renowned scholars.
Through this Program, partial support is provided for the costs of hosting outstanding scholars on campus to deliver lectures, to facilitate the development of joint research, to serve as reviewers of MU academic programs, and to promote other opportunities for networking. An important and further goal of the project is to develop more explicit and longer-lasting relationships with these individuals by placing post-doctorate students in their labs, inviting them to serve as members of graduate student dissertation committees, offering adjunct membership on the MU faculty, and generally promoting their participation in our academic programs.