Monthly Archives: January 2014

Dean’s Corner:  Fifty Years of Graduate Education Happy 50th Birthday to us!  You heard me right!  UMKC is celebrating 50 years of providing graduate education.  On May 5, 1964, UMKC authorized the establishment of graduate studies.  Look how far we have come in … Continue reading

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Important dates to remember for Spring 2014 Monday, February 3     Last day to turn in applications and letters of recommendation for the SGS Graduate Fellowships.  http://sgs.umkc.edu/fellow/index.asp Friday, February 7     Last day to turn in IDSC Travel Grant Applications.    http://sgs.umkc.edu/forms/IDSC%20travel%20grant_Feb%207%202014%20deadline.docx http://sgs.umkc.edu/forms/IDSC%20travel%20grant_Feb%207%202014%20deadline.pdf … Continue reading

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IDSC Spring 2014 Events

February 3-7, 2014     IDSC Week!      February 4, 2014     IDSC Breakfast 9am at Aixois      February 5, 2014     IDSC Lunch  11:30am at Miller Nichols Library – Room 303       February 7, 2014     IDSC Happy Hour 5-7 pm at Charlie Hooper’s February … Continue reading

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Graduate student professional development classes selected

The School of Graduate Studies, in partnership with the other University of Missouri campuses, has initiated a program to help promising graduate students further develop their professional skills to make them more effective leaders and more competitive in the job … Continue reading

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Graduate Writing Initiative Survey Results

Listening to Voices from UMKC Graduate Education During the Fall 2013 semester we invited our current 3,800 graduate students and 354 graduate faculty members to respond to a survey focused on graduate student writing resources and needs at UMKC. The … Continue reading

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2nd Annual UMKC Interdisciplinary Conference April 26-27, 2014

Call for Papers Purpose and Orientation: One of the primary objectives for developing and organizing an annual interdisciplinary conference at UMKC is to make evident the entwinement that exists between the branches of knowledge. As such, we wish to encourage … Continue reading

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New SGS website

The School of Graduate Studies is in the process of redesigning its website. The estimated launch for the new site is March 1, and there will be student and faculty focus groups conducted prior to the launch in order to … Continue reading

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SGS welcomes our new Assistant Dean: Dr. Jennifer Friend

Dr. Jennifer Friend started Nov. 1 as the new Assistant Dean in the School of Graduate Studies. She is also an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Education, teaching online and hybrid classes, advising doctoral students, and participating in research … Continue reading

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Faculty member: Dr. Karen Bame

Dr. Karen Bame, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences, came to UMKC 24 years ago in 1990 as an assistant professor in what was then the School of Basic Life Sciences. “I’d been in Birmingham, Alabama before I … Continue reading

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Alumna offers her experience and advice

Dr. Erin Nemenoff graduated from UMKC in spring 2013 with an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Administration and the Social Science Consortium. Since then, she has earned a tenure-line faculty position at the University of Memphis, which she started … Continue reading

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