Henrietta Rix Wood has been named Coordinator of Writing Assessment, a dual appointment position with her promotion to Assistant Teaching Professor of English. She will be working closelywith Assistant Vice Provost for Assessment Nathan Lindsay to design and implement the RooWriter writing assessment that will be introduced in August 2013 and will replace the Written English [...]
Brenda Bethman, director of the UMKC Women’s Center and the Women’s & Gender Studies Program, and Affiliated Faculty in German in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, has been awarded a Fulbright Grant to attend the 2013 Baden-Württemberg Seminar for American Faculty in German and German Studies. The award covers costs of seminar fees, travel, and room [...]
RecycleMania, an annual tournament promoting waste reduction in campus communities, released its 2013 competition results and ranked UMKC as the Grand Champion school out of 523 participating colleges and universities in the nation. UMKC recycled 86% of its overall waste products during the 8-week competition. In addition, UMKC reduced 360 metric tons of CO2 from [...]
Celebrating Excellence,” the annual Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony, is scheduled for April 9 at 2 p.m. in Room 401 of the Student Union. The award program is a tradition that recognizes the exceptional achievements of UMKC faculty and staff. The list of award recipients can be accessed here. All faculty and staff are welcome [...]
Assistant Vice Chancellor for External Relations Troy Lillebo has been selected by Kansas City Mayor Sly James to serve on the mayor’s “Challenge Cabinet.” This advisory panel is comprised of 30 young professionals who will aid the mayor in transforming the way City Hall approaches problems and help to develop efficient, effective, and enhanced municipal [...]
UMKC School of Nursing Dean Lora Lacey-Haun has been appointed by Kansas City Mayor Sly James to serve in the role of co-chair of the Kansas City Health Commission. This body consists of 17 members appointed by the mayor. Lacey-Haun was appointed as a three-year member. In her new role, Lacey-Haun will, along with other [...]
The European Space Agency has chosen Mark Brodwin, UMKC assistant professor of physics and astronomy, as one of the NASA-nominated science team members to participate in its Euclid telescope mission. The goal of the Euclid mission is to understand the nature of dark energy and dark matter through measurement of the expansion of the universe. [...]
On Being a Black Lawyer, a media company that reports news of import to black legal professionals, has named the School of Law at UMKC as one of the Five Best Regional Law Schools in the Midwest. This ranking was published in the 2013 edition of the Black Student’s Guide to Law Schools. The 2013 [...]
Princeton Review has rated UMKC as one of the Top 75 “Best Value” public colleges and universities in the 2013 edition of their book. This marks the second year that UMKC has achieved ranking in the Top 75 list. The Princeton Review selected the colleges based on institutional data and student opinion surveys collected from [...]
Kansas City’s business magazine Ingram’s featured UMKC School of Nursing Dean Lora Lacey-Haun as one of the nine 2013 Icons of Education in the January issue. Dean Lacey-Haun was chosen as an educator who has made lasting contributions to the lives of students and to her institution throughout her career. To read the article, visit [...]
