Student Recognitions

We have just learned that two A&S students have been Gilman Study Abroad award recipients in recent months: Michael Stobaugh, a senior German major, went to Bonn for the summer. Matthew Parish, a junior Computer Science major and Spanish minor, will spend the Fall 2011 semester studying in Granada, Spain. Matthew also received a Hy Vile Study Abroad award from the Truman Foundation earlier this year; he will be able to combine the two scholarships for his semester in Spain. The award announcement from Gilman noted that “during the Fall 2011 application cycle, the Gilman Scholarship Program reviewed more than 2,500 applications for over 960 awards. This was a very competitive application cycle.” The Gilman is available to Pell Grant recipients with the avowed purpose of supporting students who might otherwise not be able to study abroad because of financial constraints. The program also seeks to promote diversity in study abroad by selecting students who are in traditionally under- represented disciplines such as computer science and engineering. More information and the full list of Fall 2011 awards can be seen at

On May 23, 2011, the Mathematics & Statistics Department learned that Paul Stahl, an undergraduate mathematics major, had won the eighth annual HOMSIGMAA (History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America) contest for papers written in History of Mathematics courses across the country for his paper “Kepler’s Development of Mathematical Astronomy.” In addition, Rick Hill, also a mathematics major, was one of two runners-up based on his paper “Thomas Harriot’s Artis Analyticae Praxis and the Roots of Modern Algebra”. Paul’s paper will be posted on the HOMSIGMAA web site. Students from the department have either won or co-won first place in this contest four times before in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2010. Paul will receive an MAA student membership and some MAA books provided by HOMSIGMAA, a complimentary CSHPM (Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics) membership, and books donated by Johns Hopkins University Press. Both students’ papers were written in Spring 2011 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware. For more, see:

The Psychology Department reports that it had many undergraduate students participate in UMKC’s 2011 annual research symposium in April. Nine psychology undergraduates presented their research at SEARCH, with most working with faculty in the department. The Psychology Department had two students win first and second place in the division of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Nicholas Cale, whose research mentor is Melisa Rempfer, won first place. Melanie Somogie, whose research mentor is Jared Bruce, won second place. For more on UMKC”s SEARCH, see:

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