Student Recognitions and Achievements
The Department of English Language and Literatures reports that Sarah Ashlock was awarded first place in the Arts and Humanities Division of the annual SEARCH Symposium with her poster, “Literacy as Independence: The Writing of Hattie Reynolds, 1870-1927” while Jaquelyn Hoermann took second place in the division with her poster, “Speaking Without Words: Silence and Epistolary Rhetoric of Catholic Women Educators on the Antebellum Frontier, 1828-1834.”
The Honors Program also sent us information on Jaquelyn Hoermann who was selected to represent UMKC at Undergraduate Research Day at the State Capitol in Jefferson City. She was among 40 students selected from the four UM campuses to share their work with legislators and other stakeholders. Jackie received a SEARCH grant to conduct archival research on women’s rhetorical performances. In addition, Jackie presented her research at the 45th annual National Collegiate Honors Council conference held in Kansas City fall 2010.
The Honors Program has also reported that Tamara Kamatovic, a German major in the College has won a National Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship.
The Lynn and Kristen Morrow Missouri History Student Prize was awarded in 2011 to Clinton McDuffie, an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student in History and English for the paper, “Sport and Nationalism: The 1904 St. Louis Olympics and National Identity” the State Historical Society of Missouri at the 53rd annual Missouri Conference on History held in Kansas City, April 14-15, 2011.
Joy Swallow (Chair, Architecture, Urban Planning +Design) reports that AUP+D’s senior student’s planning studio – Meta –participated in a public “charrette” October 13th and 14th, hosted by the American Institute for Architects at Forest Park Baptist Church in Joplin, Missouri. This intense period of design activity was held to stimulate ideas and further involve the public in the planning and design process and included a review of work by the Citizens Advisory Recovery Team on the 13th with a final public presentation on the 14th. For more on AUP+D and the re-building of Joplin see the following links:
Main Street redevelopment a focus of group, at:
Citizens Advisory Recovery Team Continues, at:
She also reports that one of AUP+D’s students, Colton Mabis, was awarded a Greenbuild Student Scholarship to attend a conference to further his knowledge of the green building profession. For more see:
Two UMKC geology students presented their graduate research at the annual meeting of over 6000 international participants at the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis during October 9-12, 2011. Doctoral student, Alivia Alison, presented “Paleoseismic Trenching Along the Dead Sea Transform in the Taba Sabkha in Wadi ‘Arabah, Jordan” and MS student, Julie Galloway, presented “Paleoclimate reconstruction of the Gulf of Aqaba using foraminifera as a proxy”. Both students are supervised by Tina Niemi in the Department of Geosciences.
Julie Galloway
