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Monthly Archives: September 2011
UMKC’s Bloch School starts mentoring program for business students
September 30, 2011
Posted in UMKC in the News
New Letters magazine forges connections through art
September 29, 2011
Posted in News Release
Tagged Amy Lee Scott, Brian Turner, H.C. Palmer, Hilary Masters, Marilyn Hacker, New Letters, Robert Stewart, Robin Hemley
UMKC men’s head basketball coach Matt Brown speaks in Washington for Coaches vs. Cancer
September 28, 2011
Posted in UMKC in the News
National student loan expert Heather Jarvis speaks at School of Law
September 26, 2011
Posted in Honors, Awards and Accolades, News Release, School of Law
Tagged Dean Ellen Suni, Gertrude Oliver, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Heather Jarvis, Judge John W. Oliver Foundation, Judge John W. Oliver Public Service Scholars Program, Professor David Achtenberg, Robert Levy
UMKC, MARC and FEC partner to bring a share of $37 million in federal jobs funding to Kansas City
September 23, 2011
Posted in Community Involvement, Honors, Awards and Accolades, News Release, Research and Innovation
Tagged Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, Full Employment Council (FEC), Innovation Center/KC SourceLink, Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, Kansas City Area Development Council (KCADC), Kansas City Smartport, Maria Meyers, Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center (MAMTC), Mid-America Regional Council (MARC), Obama Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)
UMKC and Northwest Missouri State University professors co-chair first regional conference on women in computing
September 22, 2011
Posted in Community Involvement, News Release, School of Computing and Engineering
Tagged Anita Borg Institute, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Associate Professor Carol Spradling, Associate Teaching Professor Judy Mullins, Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cerner Corporation, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Microsoft, Missouri Iowa Nebraska and Kansas Women in Computing (MINKWIC) conference, National Center for Women & Information Technology, National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research, Northwest Missouri State University