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International Involvement

UMKC to co-host series of China-U.S. dialogues on education, entrepreneurship and research

Published on October 11, 2010 | Posted in Campus Life, Community Involvement, International Involvement, News Release | Tagged 14th Biennial Edgar Snow Symposium, China Society for People's Friendship Studies, Edgar Snow Memorial Fund

JoAnn Klaassen's father, Herb Ediger, with Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie (front), touring the leprosarium where Mr. Ediger served as administrator in the 1960s.

JoAnn Klaassen brings a diversity of rural experience to big-city nursing

Published on October 8, 2010 | Posted in All news, Community Involvement, Faculty, International Involvement, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Students | Tagged Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Herb Ediger, JoAnn Klaassen, Letty Storm, Lora Lacey-Haun, Loyalea Henry, Rural Nurse Initiative, Tammy Conley

UMKC Women’s Center, in collaboration with GAME presents “Activism for Human Rights: From Issues to Action”

Published on October 7, 2010 | Posted in Campus Life, Community Involvement, International Involvement, News Release | Tagged Activism for Human Rights: From Issues to Action, Barclay Martin, Brenda Bethman, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Elizabeth Alex, Global and Multicultural Education Center (GAME), Jolie Justus, Sixth Biennial Kansas City Conference, Theresa Garza Ruiz, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Women's Center

Key figures in the Mississippi Blues Trail project, which was aided by UMKC's Marr Sound Archives, stand near the Tutwiler Blues Trail marker. From left are Tutwiler Mayor Genether Miller-Spurlock; Blues Trail research chairman Jim O'Neal; rock superstar Robert Plant; former Tutwiler Mayor Robert Grayson; and state Sen. David Jordan. Photo by Panny Flautt Mayfield.

A global resource

Published on September 16, 2010 | Posted in All news, Community Involvement, International Involvement, University Libraries | Tagged Chuck Haddix, David Jordan, Ethel Waters, Federal Highway Administration, Genether Miller-Spurlock, Harry Pace, Jim O'Neal, Led Zeppelin, Marr Sound Archives, Mississippi Department of Transportation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Olga and Gaylord Marr, Raymond Scott, Robert Grayson, Robert Plant, William C. Handy

Italy’s national bar council presents World War I-era postcards to Liberty Memorial

Published on August 11, 2010 | Posted in Campus Life, International Involvement, News Release, School of Law | Tagged Consiglio Nazionale Forense, Dr. Guido Alpa, I.A.N.U.S. - the International Association for the Next Uniform Standards, Italian Lawyers Conference on Global Business Economic and Financial Issues, Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Stephen Garbarino

The SIFE team celebrates their win in Chicago. Back row, from left, Roger Moore, Cary Clark, Jason Patterson, Muhammed Haider, Austin Hunt and Kaitlin Claren. Front row, from left, Mi Zhao, Jeanette Glaze, Beth Larson, Vaughn English and Tara Nigh.

Students in Free Enterprise makes a name for itself

Published on July 7, 2010 | Posted in All news, Honors, Awards and Accolades, International Involvement, Student Organizations, Students | Tagged Cary Clark, Mi Zhao, Nanjing University, Roger Moore, Students in Free Enterprise, Tara Nigh, Vaughn English

UMKC scientists and NASA collaborators receive $1.4 million grant for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science

Published on May 19, 2010 | Posted in College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Geosciences, Faculty, Honors, Awards and Accolades, International Involvement, News Release, Students, Sustainability | Tagged Center for Applied Environmental Research (CAER), Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) grant, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) of Nigeria, northern sub-Saharan African region (NSSA), Professor Jejung Lee, Professor Jimmy Adegoke

Thad Wilson (standing, far right) leads a group of nursing and pharmacy students and faculty to Honduras each summer to provide health care in rural areas.

Career in nursing leads Thad Wilson down some interesting paths

Published on May 14, 2010 | Posted in All news, Alumni, Faculty, International Involvement, School of Nursing and Health Studies | Tagged American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP), Horconcitos Honduras, Thad Wilson

UMKC alumna receives Fulbright Scholarship

Published on May 14, 2010 | Posted in College of Arts and Sciences, Conservatory of Music and Dance, Honors, Awards and Accolades, International Involvement, News Release, School of Biological Sciences, Students | Tagged Derek Jenkins, Dr. Johannes Jaeger, EMBL Centre de Regulacio Genomica (EMBL/CRG), Fulbright Scholarship, International Academic Programs Office, Kathleen Kilway, Lawrence Dreyfus, Maria Iliakova

UMKC School of Medicine receives gift to support continued excellence in medical education

Published on April 22, 2010 | Posted in Alumni, Friends, International Involvement, News Release, School of Medicine | Tagged anonymous alumna donor, Chancellor Leo E. Morton, Dean Betty M. Drees, E. Grey Dimond M.D. Program of International Medicine, UMKC Vision Research Center

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