Why SEARCH? SEARCH–short for “students engaged in artistic and academic research”–helps undergraduate students conduct a research project with a faculty mentor, giving them valuable experience in their future careers and education.
The annual SEARCH Symposium, where students showcase their projects, is on Friday, April 19th in Pierson Auditorium (in the Student Success Center) from 10am to 3pm, with the awards ceremony taking place at 4pm.
Stop by to visit the 53 presentations in the following categories:
- Architecture, Urban Planning, and Design
- Behavioral and Social Sciences
- Biological and Health Sciences
- Humanities and Performing Arts
- Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics
The winners of each category receive a cash prize and all presenters earn valuable experience to get ahead in their future careers. If you are interested in participating in SEARCH, check out their website.
[This post is by special guest blogger Lauren Anderson, a senior majoring in communications studies and Secondary Education. In this post, she reflects on what she’s really learned over the past four years.]
Clutching my backpack, holding onto my coffee-mug and grasping my purse for dear life was the state of affairs for me in my early beginnings at UMKC. Unfortunately, my past teachers didn’t share encouraging stories about college, which didn’t make me optimistic about the next four years of my life. But now, I find myself empowered by education and feeling entitled to every benefit that a person can reap from being a seeker of knowledge.
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The UMKC Garden Collective is sponsoring a film presentation and national webinar April 17th starting at 5:30pm in the Student Union, room 302.
The Island President is a film about the Maldives, an island nation south of India that is suffering from rising water levels due to climate change.
After the film there will be a webinar for colleges to participate in a national conversation on democracy and climate.
The UMKC Garden Collective is a student run community garden at 5306 Holmes. It is open to all students, faculty, and community members. The Collective operates around its core principle “take what you need and give the rest away.”
For more information, please e-mail Julie Bauer at jmb2fa@mail.umkc.edu.
Number One Magazine, the annual student-run literary journal at UMKC, will celebrate the release of its latest issue with a launch party on Friday, April 19, at 3:30 p.m. as part of the alumni week celebrations. The free event will be held on the patio of the University House (5101 Rockhill Road), the home of New Letters magazine, BkMk Press, and the public radio show New Letters on the Air. There will be music, light refreshments, short readings by contributors, and free copies of Number One Magazine.
In honor of UMKC’s 80th anniversary and a legacy of previous releases of Number One dating back to the 1940s, this new, expanded issue has more than 50 additional pages. The longer format extends its spectrum of voices and content, featuring comics for the first time and offering more creative nonfiction and plays. Included works on beauty, future technologies, parenthood and drug manufacture add to Number One’s exploration of the new literary pursuits of UMKC students.
Congratulations to contributors Megan Cross and Jimmy Grist, who each received awards new to Number One. Cross’ short story “The Inn at Crescent Mountain,” a narrative about an innkeeper’s disintegrating marriage written in the style of magical realism, won the John Latosi Award for Creative Writing, named in memory of the New York poet and journalist. Grist’s collection of comics featuring stories of an inter-species friendship and the cultural critique of an intergalactic food critic, punctuated with their humorous final panels, won the Lena Vaughn Award for the Visual Arts, named in memory of the prolific Iowa painter. Attendees will be treated to a reading by Cross and will be able to view a display of Grist’s works. Both artists will be presented with their $100 prizes. The event will also feature the presentation of the Craig M. Workman Award for Performance Media to Teresa Leggard for her play about the competing values of education and maintaining a relationship.
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