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Science, Health and Technology
5:19 pm
Fri June 1, 2012

MU School of Medicine Dean to retire amid billing fraud probe

Credit Jonathan Ingram / KBIA
Harold A. Williamson, Jr. of the University of Missouri Health System announces the investigation into billing fraud within the university’s Department of Radiology.

The dean of the University of Missouri School of Medicine is retiring following an internal investigation by the university’s Health System revealing possible billing fraud by the Department of Radiology.

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Science, Health and Technology
9:20 am
Fri June 1, 2012

Corps grants contracts to firms to rebuild Birds Point levee

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The repair work is worth $20 million.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts to three firms for work to repair the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, a levee intentionally breached by the corps at the height of spring flooding in 2011.

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Under the Microscope
6:52 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

On robots and farms

Credit Jeremy Bernfeld / Harvest Public Media
This planting robot was the winner of a national competition. Three sensors allow it to determine where a field of crops ends.

On this week’s show, we’ll learn how robots could be used to assist farmers, and hear about an upcoming astronomical event involving Venus and the sun.

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Science, Health and Technology
6:35 pm
Thu May 31, 2012

Robots on the farm

There’s always work to be done on the farm, but often it’s the same work day, after day, after day. Parts of the job must feel a bit like an assembly line.

While it’s impossible to automate farming like many manufacturers have automated their assembly lines, using robotic technology on the farm might not be so far off.

Farm robots in the classroom

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Health & Wealth Update
7:05 am
Wed May 30, 2012

Pumkpins, melons and corn

Credit Jacob Fenston / KBIA

Columbia has lots of community gardens, and several school gardens. But school-community gardens? On Tuesday at Ridgewood Elementary, the school and community worked together to start planting the city's first community garden at a public school.

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