L. Randall Wray
The Institute for New Economic Thinking has awarded a grant to UMKC Economics Professor L. Randall Wray, who will study “Financing Innovation: An Application of a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis.” Wray will collaborate on the project with Mariana Mazzucato, of the University of Sussex in the U.K., to integrate two research paradigms that have strong policy relevance in understanding the degree to which financial markets can be reformed in order to nurture value creation and ‘capital development’, rather than value extraction, and destruction.
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The University of Missouri-Kansas City’s School of Computing and Engineering has become a member of GreenTouch, a global industry consortium dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of the information and communications technology networks by a factor of 1,000.
Researchers at UMKC’s SCE will collaborate with a number of high-profile institutions to research and invent technologies that will enable more energy-efficient networks. Without interventions like this one, internet and telecommunications energy usage is expected to grow to 10 percent of total global energy consumption by 2020. The goal is to demonstrate the new technology by 2015.
The Fungal Genetics Stock Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Biological Sciences has been awarded a grant of nearly $500,000 by the National Science Foundation to establish the United States Culture Collection Network. The goal of the network is to bring together scientists working with laboratory-based collections of microbes across the nation. Along with the fungal collection housed at UMKC, this network would include collections of bacteria, yeast, algae and other environmental and plant-associated microbes.
Lawrence Dreyfus
Dr. Lawrence Dreyfus has been named to the position of Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, for a three-year term effective July 1, 2012.
Dr. Gail Hackett, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, announced Dreyfus’ appointment.
“Dr. Dreyfus is taking over one of the most important positions at this university at a pivotal moment, when research advancements are viewed as the cornerstone for the future of the greater Kansas City community. It is a big job, but I am confident that Lawrence Dreyfus is equal to the challenge,” Hackett said. Planning for a transition at the School of Biological Sciences is now underway, Hackett added.
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The University of Missouri-Kansas City has received a $400,000 gift to establish a pulmonary fibrosis research program at the UMKC School of Medicine. The gift comes from the estate of the late Mary K. Geldmacher, a retired St. Louis school teacher who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and passed away in 2009. Pulmonary fibrosis is the formation or development of excess fibrous connective tissue in the lungs, commonly described as “scarring of the lung.”
In bequeathing her estate, Mrs. Geldmacher expressed her wish that money from her estate be used to support pulmonary fibrosis research in Missouri’s medical schools. Executors of the estate selected the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine to be the primary beneficiary of Mrs. Geldmacher’s bequest. The gift will be used to establish the Mary Katherine Geldmacher Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Program at the UMKC Lung Research Center.
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health to provide a postdoctoral fellowship program in cardiovascular outcomes research. The program will be based at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Instituteand is designed to meet the growing need for scholars capable of quantifying patients’ outcomes, defining the determinants of these outcomes, comparing the effectiveness of alternative treatments, translating new knowledge into clinical practice, and measuring and improving the quality of care.
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