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By USucceed, November 4, 2014 8:51 am

The UMKC Communiversity’s Wholistic Health Fair, a bi-annual event since 1999, will take place from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 9 at the UMKC Student Union, fourth floor. The fair will host 60 exhibitors and 20 workshops, a silent auction and psychics. You can experience an array of innovative health concepts where alternative-health practitioners share their knowledge, experience and philosophies with the public.

The fair is free-of-charge. Workshops include: Hatha Yoga, Dream Building, the 21 Day Love Challenge, Living Drinking Water and the Missing Link in Modern Medicine. The workshops offer participants a chance to enhance their knowledge and ask questions. You can take three workshops for only $7.

A Silent Auction is included in the fair, featuring hundreds of items, such as coupons for a listing in Evolving Magazine, meditation and yoga sessions. It is open from 11 a.m. – 3:55 p.m.  Items are donated to Communiversity, and all proceeds support the Communiversity program.

For more information call 816-235-1407 or visit the Communiversity website. Remember to pick up a catalog of upcoming classes and the show guide at a local public library.

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By USucceed, November 4, 2014 8:49 am

Ihsan Yilmaz , Ph.D., will discuss the “Current Crisis in the Middle East: Turkey’s Foreign Policy and Domestic Issues” at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14 at the UMKC School of Law, E.E. (Tom) Thompson Courtroom.

Dr. Yilmaz will talk about the challenges to civil society, press freedom, freedom of speech, and pluralistic democracy in the aftermath of the August presidential elections. Other domestic issues, such as the Kurdish issue and abuses of power against the individuals and civil society, will also be covered.

Dr. Yilmaz is an associate professor of political science at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey where he also is the director of the Ph.D. Programm in political science and international relations at the university’s Institute of Social Sciences. He worked at the University of Oxford as a Fellow between 1999 and 2001 and taught Turkish government and politics, legal sociology, comparative law and Islamic law at SOAS, University of London between 2001 and 2008.

He is the author of  “Muslim Laws, Politics and Society in Modern Nation States: Dynamic Legal Pluralisms in England, Turkey and Pakistan” (2005). He is the editor of Turkish Journal of Politics (TJP) and a regular columnist of Today’s Zaman, an English language daily published in Turkey.

RSVP at kansascity@thedialoginstitute.org by Nov. 12.

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By USucceed, November 3, 2014 4:53 pm

The UMKC Phi Kappa Phi Chapter of Merit (#103) held its fall initiation ceremony on Nov. 9 at 2 p. m. in the E.E. Thompson Courtroom in the UMKC School of Law.

The mission of Phi Kappa Phi: “To recognize and promote academic excellence in all fields of higher education and to engage the community of scholars in service to others.”

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society. Under the leadership of Dr. Charles J. Wurrey and Professor Barbara Glesner-Fines, UMKC’s Phi Kappa Phi Chapter #103 is a 2014 Chapter of Merit, putting our organization in the top 10% if 300 global chapters.

Congratulations to the Fall 2014 Initiates!

Student Initiates:

Chelsey N. Bamesberger, Timothy W. Bergey, Kellie Bohanon, Lauren A. Brown, Blake Caven, Darryl T. Clapp, Abigail E. Clark, Dorothy Daniel, Frederick B. Drummond, Howard N. Ehana, Jillian Crystal Freeman, Megan B. Galicia, Erik C. Gandara, Jerad Green, Becky Hand, Michelle Harper, Michael L. Harris, Tuytruc Ho, Margaret Hoang, Abigail Judah, Bretton W. Kreifel, Morgan L. McMichen, Jenna Kate Miller, Taryn J. Miller, Kylie Newhard, Kristin Newman, Nathan Rasmussen, Amanda Seley, Emily A. Sellers, Ruchira Sen, Sarah Smead, Sarah E. Smith, Eric C. Sundquist, Isadore S. Tarantino, Helen Tyler, Julie L. Whistman

Faculty/Alumni Initiates:

• Dr. Mary Gerkovich, Associate Professor, School of Medicine
• Dr. Allan J. Katz, Distinguished Professor, Bloch School of Management

Faculty & Staff Initiates:

• Dr. Valerie G. Tucker Blackwell, Emerita Teaching Professor, School of Education
• Ms. Laurie J. Krom, Director ATTC, School of Nursing and Health Studies
• Dr. Sarah M. Martin-Anderson, Assistant Professor, Bloch School of Management
• Dr. Daniel H. McIntosh, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
• Professor Peter F. Morello, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
• Dr. Zhonghua (“Josh”) Peng, Curators’ Professor of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences