Category Archives: News about Graduates — awards and honors

Professor Dennis Merrill Wins 2012 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Faculty Award

Dennis Merrill has a knack for inspiring graduate student learning especially when it comes to the history of foreign relations.  This is likely one reason why he won the 2012 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Faculty Award. The recipient of this award is … Continue reading

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Sports Reporter, Hotel Manager, Political Scientist and Assessment Specialist: UMKC’s graduate student Dan Stroud brings life experiences to campus.

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UMKC is often touted as an Urban University where non-traditional students may pursue seemingly limitless opportunities in higher education.  Dan Stroud, a doctoral student in the School of Education, is a great and exciting example of this. A native of … Continue reading

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Multiple Awards Presented at the School of Graduate Studies Annual Convocation on April 25, 2012

This year, the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council (IDSC) joined forces to combine the Annual SGS Awards Convocation with the IDSC Community of Scholars Research Day Celebration.  As Master of Ceremonies, Dr.Denis Medeiros, Dean of … Continue reading

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Dr. Henrietta Rix Wood receives Rhetoric Society of America’s 2012 Dissertation Award

June 5th, 2012 · [The following was provided by the Office of Women and Gender Studies.] UMKC Lecturer Henrietta Rix Wood’s prize-winning dissertation – “Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930″ – explores the efforts of young women to make … Continue reading

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