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Joseph Palumbo, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Keller, holds a thin blue line flag during the candlelight vigil for fallen Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. at Memorial Circle, Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017.
Damon Coyle, innovation specialist at the Innovation Lab in MU’s Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Clinical Simulation Center, crafts an ocular trauma repair skills trainer using mostly latex and silicone compounds, October 17, 2022. Coyle blends his background in sculpture and medicine to create lifelike organs and limbs for training future doctors, nurses, clinicians and veterinarians. Abbie Lankitus/University of Missouri
Scott Haffner, a volunteer, pulls open the balloon skirt while dodging the burner fires for the S.S. America balloon at the South Plains Balloon Round-Up, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. Nine of the 10 balloons at the Round-Up were able to take off.
Joseph Palumbo, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Keller, holds a thin blue line flag during the candlelight vigil for fallen Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. at Memorial Circle, Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017.
Damon Coyle, innovation specialist at the Innovation Lab in MU’s Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Clinical Simulation Center, crafts an ocular trauma repair skills trainer using mostly latex and silicone compounds, October 17, 2022. Coyle blends his background in sculpture and medicine to create lifelike organs and limbs for training future doctors, nurses, clinicians and veterinarians. Abbie Lankitus/University of Missouri