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	<title>The Quad &#187; 2010 &#187; March</title>
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		<title>Arts and Sciences Commencement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Readings by Robert Stewart and Thomas E. Kennedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Stewart, editor of New Letters journal, will read his poems in a program with novelist, essayist, and short-fiction award winner Thomas E. Kennedy, who lives in Copenhagen.]]></description>
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		<title>Honors Program Celebrates 30 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UMKC Honors Program just completed its 30th year of activities. Established in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1979 with 12 students by its first director, Bruce Bubacz (Philosophy), the program now serves almost 90 students campus-wide. Forty-four percent are A&#38;S students; 16 percent are in Biological Sciences; 11 percent in Education; 9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Fact</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/fast-fact-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall 2010 applications for admission in A&#38;S are up by 11.7 percent.]]></description>
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		<title>Comparable Data on Admitted Applicants in A&amp;S</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall Semester 2009 and Fall Semester 2010 Type Fall 2009 Fall 2010 First-time College 880 1064 Graduate 33 62 Transfer 159 228 Other 26 20 Total 1098 1374 (Applications) (1766) (1973) Admitted Rate 62.2% 69.6%]]></description>
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		<title>Recognitions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Stewart of BkMK Press has written to tell us of the good word that a BkMk Press book of stories, Homicide Survivors Picnic, by Lorraine M. Lopez, is a finalist for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The PEN/Faulkner Award is the largest peer-juried fiction prize in the country. The winner of this award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A&amp;S Staff News</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/as-staff-news-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Staff Alicen Lundberg — Administrative Assistant (Art and Art History) Rheneashion Atkinson — Office Support Staff II (Continuing Education) Years of Service Awards 10 years: Sarah Ballew — Program Analyst Expert (Economics/CEI) 15 years: Linda Smitka — I-Net Administrator (A&#38;S Dean’s Office)]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Facts</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/fast-facts-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring 2010 enrollment by student credit hour (SCH) in A&#38;S is 71,851. In Spring 2009, the number was 64,842.]]></description>
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		<title>Special Accomplishments Issue Delayed</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/special-accomplishments-issue-delayed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is taking more time to compile the information for this special issue than we had been anticipated. As a result, the publication of the “special” issue on faculty and departmental accomplishment highlights in 2009 has been delayed. The Editor appreciates the efforts of faculty and others who will help make the issue as complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research Grants</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/research-grants-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORS has now made available all of the grant data for 2009 so we can again take note of the awards by faculty in A&#38;S. Since we were reporting partial information as it came to us between August and now, these lists may include items that have been previously noted in earlier issues of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A&amp;S Grants and Awards Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>neumand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 2009 Total: $383,568 Buszek, Keith Center of Excellence in Chemical &#8230; Univ of Ks Ctr For Research Inc Chemistry $110,521 Stewart, Robert New Letters Mo Arts Council New Letters $29,700 Stewart, Robert BkMk Press: Enhancing Literary Book Publishing in Missouri… Mo Arts Council New Letters $18,142 Wrobel, Jerzy Teacher Enhancement for Active Middle School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating Excellence: A&amp;S Faculty and Staff Win Campus Awards</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/celebrating-excellence-as-faculty-and-staff-win-campus-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A&#38;S faculty and staff were among those honored on February 15, 2010 during UMKC’s “Celebrating Excellence” ceremony. They are: Jara Stewart (A&#38;S Continuing Education) Staff Council Governing Board Award for 2010 Todor Gounev (Chemistry) Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Jerzy Wrobel (Physics) and James Falls (History) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Tamera Murdock [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast Fact</title>
		<link>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/fast-fact-9/</link>
		<comments>http://info.umkc.edu/thequad/2010/03/15/fast-fact-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since fiscal year 2010 began on July 1, 2009, faculty in A&#38;S have been awarded $2,834,671 in external grants and contracts.]]></description>
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