[The following was provided by UMKC Public Relations Office.] UMKC is reporting its largest overall enrollment with 13,511 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, based on preliminary fall 2010 enrollment figures. The figures also represent the highest freshmen enrollment in UMKC’s history, totaling 1,129 first-time college students, an increase of 14.3 percent. Transfer students increased by 10.8 [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2010
Big enrollment increases for UMKC
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Announcement, Diversity, Mission and Goals, Students
Tags: graduate·professional students·undergraduate·underrepresented Minority students
Sierra magazine selects UMKC course among nation’s top five environmental classes
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Academic programs, Awards and honors, Sustainability
Sierra magazine has selected UMKC Prof. Jim Sheppard’s class, “Environmental Ethics and Policy,” as one of the nation’s top five environmental classes. In the magazine’s September issue, Avital Binshtoc, author of the article, “Cool Schools”, writes, “We scouted college catalogs nationwide to draft a dream team of all-star teachers and sure-hit courses.” In the following [...]
Tags: environmental classes·Environmental Ethics and Policy·environmental problems·Jim Sheppard·Sierra magazine
Want to book a room at the new Student Union? Here’s how…
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Administration, Announcement, Capital improvements, Mission and Goals
[The following was provided by UMKC Student Affairs and Enrollment Management.] The UMKC Student Union, which opened August 2010, is uniquely built for UMKC students, by UMKC Students. In November 2007, UMKC students voted for a referendum to assess fees for a new building that would house dining, entertainment, organization, and meeting spaces specifically geared [...]
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UMKC researcher receives NIH grant to market software
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Academic units, Awards and honors, Communications, Divisions, Departments and Centers, Faculty, Life Sciences, Research, Technology
Dr. Gerald Wyckoff, UMKC Associate Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry at the School of Biological Sciences, has received a National Institutes of Health grant to market his drug discovery-aiding software. The software expedites the work of pharmaceutical researchers by matching drugs with appropriate molecular targets.
Tags: Dr. Gerald Wyckoff·drug discovery-aiding software·Molecular Biology & Biochemistry·National Institutes of Health grant·School of Biological Sciences
Upgrade scheduled for UMKC faculty and staff email system, Exchange 2007
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Announcement, Communications, Faculty, Staff, Support services, Technology
[The following was provided by UMKC Information Services.] UMKC Information Services is in the process of upgrading the Faculty/Staff email system to Exchange 2007. The upgrade, which will begin on the morning of September 8 and will continue through October 1, features several enhancements, including: Increased mailbox quota to 2GB (up to 20 times larger [...]
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Construction update: Troost Bridge project street closings
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Administration, Announcement, Community Connections
[The following was provided by UMKC Office of Community & Public Affairs.] As part of the on-going Troost Bridge replacement project, there are two significant street closures that are planned for September. The first closure on the September 7th will close Volker Boulevard, which will be closed for 10 days and then re-open with two lanes [...]
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Watch video from Missouri Governor’s Summit on Higher Education
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Budget and Finances, Communications, Community Connections, Government and Higher Education, Mission and Goals
Watch a video from the August 17, 2010, Missouri Governor’s Summit on Higher Education. Hosted in Jefferson City by Gov. Jay Nixon, the Summit was designed to develop a new agenda for the state’s higher education
Tags: Governor’s Summit on Higher Education·higher education·Jay Nixon
Mike Johnson Memorial Walk for Recovery
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Academic programs, Announcement, Community Connections, Divisions, Departments and Centers
[The following was provided by UMKC Academic Affairs, Office of Research Services.] For the first time, the Kansas City area will host a Recovery Month event to raise community awareness of the disease of addiction. On September 18, 2010, an Inaugural Event celebrating the Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse & Mental Health [...]
Tags: Department of Health and Human Services·disease of addiction·Gil Kerlikowske·National Alcohol & Drug Addiction Recovery Month·The Mike Johnson Memorial Walk for Recovery
Redbox now at UMKC
August 31st, 2010 · Comments Off · Announcement, Community Connections
[The following was provided by UMKC Student Affairs and Enrollment Management.] The work day is over, you’re ready to relax and you’re looking for a movie. You don’t have much time, traffic is a mess, and you don’t want the hassle of a video store. A quick walk to the redbox kiosk at the Student [...]
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By our students, for our students: New Student Union opens just in time
August 24th, 2010 · Comments Off · Announcement, Capital improvements, Community Connections, Mission and Goals, Students, Sustainability, Uncategorized
As students return to campus this week, they will be greeted with a bird’s-eye view of Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza, a new theater, new restaurants and ultimately, a 109,000-square-foot new Student Union. With a student body of approximately 14,500 and enrollment projected to increase by 21 percent in 2011, students have outgrown the UMKC University [...]
Tags: Country Club Plaza·Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art·Stanley H. Durwood Soccer Stadium
