Archive for July, 2012
Selected from a competitive pool of over 1000 applicants computer science graduate students Pratima Gorla and Swati Son have received scholarships to attend the 2012 Grace Hooper Celebration of Women in Computing being held October 3-6, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. Pratima Gorla was awarded a Mastercard scholarship and Swati Soni was awarded a GE scholarship. [...]
Dr. ZhiQiang Chen obtained two travel grants to attend the 1st USUCGER Early Career Conference and the 14th GENI Engineering Conference from July 8~ July 11, both at Boston and sponsored by National Science Foundation. Dr. Chen presented his research methods and findings in identifying soil-structure-interaction effects using geotechnical centrifuge data during the USUCGER conference. [...]
SCE’s Dr. Amber Rath Stern and Dr. Ganesh Thiagarajan are part of a UMKC research team just awarded a National Health Institute (NIH) $8.3 million grant to study ‘crosstalk’ between bones and muscles. According to the U Matters article, “In collaboration with Dr. Bonewald, other members of the research team includes Mark Johnson, Ph.D., and [...]
The ASM Materials Camp for Teachers was held at UMKC SCE the week of June 11 – June 15. Seven states were represented by the 23 high school and middle school science teachers participating in the camp. This free annual camp has been held at UMKC annually for the past 5 years and SCE faculty [...]
The UMKC Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) student chapter and its president, Samantha Baker, is working to “better integrate the student chapter with the GKC Post so that students have more interaction with and access to practicing engineers who can help them with internships and job preparation”. For details, scroll down through the Greater [...]
The UMKC American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter received a Letter of Honorable Mention from ASCE national headquarters for “its outstanding activities as recorded in the 2011 Chapter Annual Report”. Activities by the chapter’s 50 or so members included professional development activities to improve internship prospects, volunteer activities such as Wyandotte county trail [...]
