The Quad

Architecture, Urban Planning + Design students completed a studio project for the District Board with ideas on the use of 39 school buildings recently closed.  The students analyzed significant amounts of data about the District, developed a repurposing strategy, a community engagement plan and prepared recommendations that will be available in the form of a Guidebook to help the District move forward through this complex process. For more see: http://www.kmbc.com/ news/ 25932604/detail.html  and http://www.iterasi.net/ ReportViewer.aspx?presid=NaR 6VDHhIEuvD9elYlaT6Q 

There were 3,969 undergraduate degree-seeking majors in the A&S College in Fall Semester, 2010. The number of graduate degree seeking students was 690. For Fall 2009, those numbers were 3,762 and 676.

KSHB-41 NBC Action News featured Kathleen Kilway, (Chemistry), in a recent story about cell phones use by col­lege students. See: http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/news/education/ banning-cell-phones-from-class-helps-students-focus

Max Skidmore,(Political Science), begins his third year as Editor of this A&S UMKC-based on-line journal of The Policy Studies Organization. For the most recent issue see: http://www.psocommons.org/ppp/.

For more about the organization, see: http://www.ipsonet.org/

A&S Faculty were awarded $6,517,827 in grants and contracts from extra-mural sources in calendar year 2010. For calendar year 2009, the amount was $3,404,389.

Marijana Kotlaja, a pre-law double major in Political Science and Criminal Justice has received word that she is one of nine students who have been chosen from among more than 700 student applicants to take part in this summer internship program.The selection process required her to travel to D.C. as one of the 45 finalists who were inter­viewed before the final nine were selected. Congratulations to Ms. Kotlaja!

Under the mentoring of A&S HSCP adjunct faculty member Haley Brueck (who teaches broadcast journalism courses at the Columbia Area Career Center that serves students in the Columbia Public High Schools), several of her students got big time opportunities as ESPN and ABC television came to Columbia last year and enlisted their help in generating footage for programming around the national Game Day Coverage of the MU-Oklahoma football game. These students are earning UMKC credit in Communications Studies 220 along with their high school credits.  See: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/ 2010/dec/04/broadcast120410/