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Faculty Awards and Recognitions

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Erik Olsen (Economics) has been named The Joseph Cabral Distinguished Scholar and Fellow at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. The fellowship provides continuing support to a current Rutgers fellow who has distinguished himself or herself by his or her research contributions. See:

Alex Holsinger (Criminal Justice and Criminology) was recently awarded the American Probation and Parole Association’s (APPA) award for academic contribution to the field of Corrections.  While it is referred to as the APPA University of Cincinnati Award, it is called that because of the long tradition of corrections-related research there. It is not an award by the University. The award is presented to an individual who has made significant contributions to the probation and parole field or criminal justice technology. Recipients typically are individuals from an academic research institution or government agency who are not engaged in providing direct probation and parole services.

L. Randall Wray (Economics) has been awarded a $250,000 grant by The Institute for New Economic Thinking to study “Financing Innovation: An Application of a Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis.”  Wray will collaborate on the project with Mariana Mazzucato, of the University of Sussex in the U.K., to integrate two research paradigms that have strong policy relevance in understanding the degree to which financial markets can be reformed in order to nurture value creation and ‘capital development’, rather than value extraction, and destruction. (This item first appeared in U-Matters.)

Student Recognitions

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

 

Brent Rogers, an undergraduate student in Mathematics and Statistics, won first prize in the “Biological and Health Sciences” category at the 12th annual SEARCH Symposium for Research and Creative Achievements in Pierson auditorium April 2012 for a project on “Mathematical Model to Quantify Dosing and Evaluate Effects of Modifications of Cancer Virotherapy.  His research was funded by a grant from SEARCH.  Swati DebRoy, Lecturer in the department of Mathematics and Statistics, mentored him for this project.  Further details can be found at

 

On May 2, 2012, the Mathematics & Statistics Department learned that Jesse Hamer, an undergraduate mathematics major, had won the Ninth Annual HOMSIGMAA (History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America) contest for papers written in History of Mathematics courses across the country for his paper “Indivisibles and the Cycloid in the Early 17th Century.” Jesse’s paper will be posted on the HOMSIGMAA web site.  Students from the UMKC department had previously either won or co-won first place in this contest five times: in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2011.  Jesse will receive an MAA student membership and some MAA books provided by HOMSIGMAA, a complimentary CSHPM (Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics) membership, and books donated by Johns Hopkins University Press.  His paper was written in Spring 2012 for Math 464 WI (History of Mathematics, Writing Intensive) taught by Richard Delaware.  For more, see: 

 

Campus Recognizes Six College Faculty and Staff for 2012

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

At UMKC’s 2012 “Celebration of Excellence” on March 12 six in A&S were recognized for outstanding achievements in various award areas.  They are:

     
Ann Hubbard(Political Science) Chancellor’s True Unsung Hero Staff Award;    Jared Bruce(Psychology) Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching; 
     
Stephen Dilks(English Language and Literature) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching;    Ricky Allman(Art and Art History) Trustees Faculty Scholar Award; 
  
 
   
Jannette Berkley-Patton(Psychology) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement;  
 
 and 
Charles Wurrey(Emeritus, Chemistry) Chancellor’s Award for Career Contributions to the University. 

For more see:

New Letters on the Air Goes International

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

We have learned from Annie Walsh, the Assistant Producer, of a new audience for New Letters on the Air.  A recent press release tells us that “In Warwickshire, England, Keith Phillimore found an unfamiliar radio broadcast in the static on his portable receiver: a male voice reading poetry.  By way of Hamburger Lokalradio, a radio station based in Hamburg, Germany, which reaches listeners beyond the city’s borders via a high-powered shortwave radio service, Mr. Phillimore enjoyed a half-hour literary program on Nov. 22, 2011, recorded partway around the world in Kansas City, Missouri—a New Letters on the Air broadcast, featuring host Angela Elam interviewing poet Wayne Miller.”… “Hamburger Lokalradio began airing the program last October as part of its weekly Tuesday broadcast to English-speaking audiences.  “The fantastic show…adds nicely to a couple other literature and culture-minded programs on the regular schedule,” said producer Thomas Völkner in Germany.” See:

Student Recognitions

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Three of the five graduating students who were selected as the Fall 2011 Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Honor Recipients were from A&S.  According to the notice in UMatters, the selection was based on the students’ high academic achievements, leadership roles and service to the university community. We add our congratulations to these students.

   
Emma L. Frank
Nominated by
Dr. Kathleen Kilway
Ramanda Hicks
Nominated by the late
Dr. Carol Koehler
Anthony McDaniel
Nominated by
Dr. Eric Grospitch

Chris Fowler (Psychology doctoral student) earned a student research award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Schizophrenia Special Interest Group for his poster presentation: “How skill knowledge and capacity influence real-world skill performance in persons with serious mental illness.” Co-authors on this project were Psychology graduate students Amy Barnes and Meghan Murphy, and their faculty mentor, Melisa Rempfer. For more see

. www.abct.org/Members/?m=mMembers&fa=SIG.

College Now Has 14 Curators’ Professors

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

With the recent naming of Kathy Goggin (Psychology) as a Curators’ Professor  and Kathleen Kilway (Chemistry) as a Curators’ Teaching Professor, the College now has a grand total of 14 faculty members who hold this honor.  They are:

Curators’ Professors

Felicia H. Londré, Department of Theater (1987)
Wai-Yim Ching, Department of Physics (1988)
Max Skidmore, Department of Political Science (1999)
Yanching (Jerry) Jean, Department of Chemistry (2002)
James Durig, Department of Chemistry (2003)
Jerry R. Dias, Department of Chemistry (2010)
Michael B. Kruger, Department of Physics (2010)
Kathy Goggin, Department of Psychology (2011)

Curators’ Teaching Professors

Bruce Bubacz, Department of Philosophy (1998)
David Atkinson, Department of Political Science (1999)
Charles Wurrey, Department of Chemistry (2002)
Joan Dean, Department of English (2003)
Carla Klausner, Department of History (2004)
Kathleen Kilway, Department of Chemistry (2011)

To learn more about the titles and their history, go to:

Recognitions

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Caitlin Horsmon, (Communication Studies) received a Rocket Grant, in partnership with the Charlotte Street Foundation, Spencer Museum and the Andy Warhol Foundation. She is one of ten recipients to receive $4000 for the Visual Arts. Her project, titled “Resistant History,” will reframe political reform as a local activity through collecting stories of progressive change in the Kansas City area and will be available via web to education, citizens and artists. For more see:
http://rocketgrants.wordpress.com/rocket-grants-projects/the-projects-2011-2012/resistant-history/ 

Tom Fisher (Mathematics & Statistics) has been awarded a research grant by the University of Missouri System’s Regents Board (UMRB) for his project entitled “New Multivariate Techniques in Time Series Analysis & Forecast”.

Theatre Department’s Felicia Londré becomes Dean–Elect of College of Fellows of the American Theatre

At the annual meeting of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, held last April in the Kennedy Center, Dr. Felicia Londré, Curators’ Professor of Theatre, was chosen as the organization’s Dean–Elect.

During the next year, prior to assuming her two-year leadership term in April 2012, Dr. Londré will work closely with the College’s current Dean, Milly Barranger.

Londré was featured in The Fellows Gazette’s Fall 2010 issue.  John Ezell, Hall Family Foundation Professor of Design, of the A&S Theatre Department, is also an American Theatre Fellow. (This is an abbreviated version of an article that appeared in U-Matters, May 17, 2011)

Richard Findley (Architecture, Urban Planning +Design and Art and Art History lecturer) has received a U.S. Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research in Cairo from September of 2011 through June of 2012. For more see:
• www.umkc.edu/news/news-release.asp?id=1092

Dana Tulodziecki (Philosophy) will be a Visiting Fellow for the year at the University of Pittsburgh at their Center for the Philosophy of Science considered the leading center for the history and philosophy of science in the world. For more see:
• www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/About/about.htm

At a June 16, 2011 reception hosted by Dean Vorst, Joy Swallow (Chair, Architecture, Urban Planning + Design) was honored by the announcement of an endowed scholarship in her name created by friends and colleagues on the occasion of her elevation to Fellow of The American Institute of Architects at the Investiture May 14, 2011, AIA National convention, New Orleans, Louisiana. The honor is recognition of Joy D. Swallow’s notable contribution to the advancement of the profession of architecture, and to her leadership and devotion in the education of architecture, urban planning and design
• www.aia.org/practicing/awards/2011/fellows/index.htm.

Andrew Holder (Chemistry) has been selected to the 2011 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. This program is “to recognize members of ACS for outstanding achievements in and contributions to Science, the Profession, and the Society.” All of the nominees have to not only be a member in good standing of the ACS but also has met the requirements in two of the following areas: Excellence in Science/Profession and Outstanding Service to the American Chemical Society including service on a division, local, regional, national and/or international level and/or editorship in a journal. He joins an outstanding list of previous ACS fellows and will be honored at a special ceremony during the ACS National Meeting in Denver on August 29, 2011 as well as be featured with his other ACS Fellows in the August 2011 Chemical & Engineering News. For more see:
• portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=2246&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=5a1c38c2-0d43-42cc-88de-728a8b92f870

A&S Student News and Recognitions

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

Environmental Studies Majors on the Mall in D.C.

The device in the photo is the P3 “New Sky” invention that extracts atmospheric moisture for drinking water. Two UMKC students Cheryl Immethun and James Mitchell attended along with Professor Molly Davies as part of the national EPA P3 National Student Design competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet. Their $10,000 grant allowed them to develop their design and present their research results at the National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington DC, April 2011.

 

Truman Foundation Gives Scholarships to Six A&S Students

Six A&S students have been awarded Hy Vile/Eddie Jacobson/ Sherman & Irene Dreisenzsun Scholarships. These awards from the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation are matched with UMKC monies to allow students to study abroad. The six are: Shannon Adkins (French and English/Creative Writing double major) is going to France. Evan Helmuth (Political Science) is going to Jordan. Matthew Parrish (Computer Science and Spanish double major) is going to Spain. Kate Tankel (Spanish and Secondary Education double major) is going to Argentina. Christina Romero (Political Science major with minor in Spanish) is going to Chile. Lynne Johnson (Communications Studies major with minor in Women and Gender Studies) is going to South Africa.

They were honored at the luncheon on May 5, 2011 celebrating Harry Truman’s 127th birthday at which actor Gary Sinise received the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award and Captain Mollie E. Keith received the Phillip Pistilli Silver Veteran’s Medal. We applaud the award winners and our students for their achievements and congratulate them.

A&S Students among Honorees Announced by Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management

Each semester, the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management calls for nominations of exceptional graduating students who have maintained high academic achievements while providing leadership and service to the University and our community. This year they include: Chad Byle, Christina Munford, Danielle Dwyer, Nacente Seabury, Solumuna Habtu, and Spencer Fenton.

AUP+D student Megan Hohensinner won the BEST in SHOW award at KSU’s / 2011 Delineation Competition. The competition in the College of Architecture , Urban Planning and Design took place in April 2011.  Timothy Sandweg, a UMKC alumnus was awarded the Jurors’ Choice for his free-hand back and white drawing titled “Via Secca” . Congratulations!

Recognitions

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Sungyop Kim (AUP+D) has been appointed as a member of the editorial advisory board of Accident Analysis and Prevention (AAP). AAP is published by Elsevier and  is the most prestigious peer-reviewed journal in the world in traffic safety and injury prevention. For more see:

http://journals.elsevier.com/00014575/accident-analysis-and-prevention/  

He also has accepted to a Visiting Fellowship with the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii this summer. See:

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/?id=99
 

Bob Stewart  (New Letters) reports a nice surprise: The March/April issue of Poets & Writers magazine features New Letters and New Letters on the Air in its section called Literary MagNet: News and Trends with the following citation:

    Seventy-seven years before Licitra cooked up Alimentum, New Letters 
    
(www.newletters.org) was founded as the University Review at the University of 

    Kansas City (now a part of the University of Missouri system). The quarterly, whose 
    title was changed in 1971, has since garnered recognition not only for the print 
    journal, which has been home to new writing by luminaries such as Annie Dillard, 
    Charles Simic, and John Updike, but also for New Letters on the Air, a radio 
    program featuring authors reading from and talking about their work. Editor in 
    chief Robert Stewart accepts poetry and prose from established and emerging 
    writers through May 1.

    For more see:
        http://www.pw.org/content/literary_magnet_56
 

Beth Miller (Political Science) was interviewed by NPR for their “On the Media” program in early February about the effects of media coverage of scandal on retention of information about public figures’ policy positions. The interview was based on her current research. To read or listen to her interview go to:

  http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/02/11/06
 

Clancy Martin (Philosophy) had his novel How to Sell discussed in an essay on the “philosophical novel” in The New York Times in February, 2011. For more see:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/books/review/Ryerson-t.html?_r=1

He also had an  essay on Bikram Yoga and its founder published. See:

  http://www.details.com/contributors/clancy-martinhttp://www.details.com/contributors/clancy-martin
 

Jacob Wagner (AUP+D) has been named to the editorial board of the of  Journal of Urban Design.  See:

  http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1357-4809&linktype=145
  

Bill Black (Economics) was interviewed by the media in Ireland to address the issues they are facing in their current credit system crisis. For more listen here:

  http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2011/02/15/interview-with-bill-black

His commentary has also recently appeared again in the New York Times as well as on Dutch Television as part of a documentary on the U.S. “Flash Crash.”
  

Michelle Boisseau (English) had her  poem “At My Brother’s Place” featured on Garrison Keillor’s radio program The Writer’s Almanac on December 15, (http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2010/12/15)

For more English Department achievements,  see their Spring 2011Newsletter at:

  http://cas.umkc.edu/english/documents/Newsletter–Spring 2011 Issue 1.pdf
 

L. Randall Wray (Economics) has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for support of research on “alternative methods of providing government support in times of crisis, focusing on accountability, governance and transparency.” The award covers a 27 month period beginning November 1, 2010.

Recognitions

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Ann Wood (Sociology) reports that the  UMKC Sociology Department has been recognized for its work with a recent donation drive for “Stand Down”, a charity event on November 5th for marginal/homeless veterans in Kansas City  as the faculty, staff, students, and the Sociology Club collected clothing and personal items from various Sociology/Anthropology courses for donation.
See:- http://kcstanddown.org/index.html

Barry Anderson (Art and Art History) presented an invited lecture at Notre Dame University on October 28, 2010 on his video art. The lecture marked the opening of his exhibit of recent video works LoopPsych.
See:- http://artdept.nd.edu/events/2010/10/28/3945-photography-exhibition/
He also has a showing of other work currently taking place in St. Louis.
See:- http://www.brunodavidgallery.com/exhibition_spaces.cfm?exhibition_id=47&gallery_space_id=4

Richard Delaware (Mathematics and Statistics) was interviewed several times in 2010 (along with two Southwest Early College Campus Mathematics teachers) for an October 2010 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation report titled “College Readiness: The View from Early College High Schools”. He is acknowledged on p. ii, and quoted on p. 14.
See:- http://cas.umkc.edu/mathematics/Delaware/WW_CollegeReadiness_Oct2010.pdf

Betsy Beasley,  the office administrative associate  for New Letters has been honored for her work in women’s rights with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women in Politics Fund of  the Greater Kansas City Women’s Political Caucus . The award was presented on September 10 ,  2010.
See:- http://www.newletters.org/PDFs/News%20.pdf

Fredrick Lee (Economics) presented a paper on “Social Surplus Approach and Heterodox Economics,” at the 2010 Association for Heterodox Economics Conference in Bordeaux, France.
See:- http://ocs.sfu.ca/hetecon/index.php?conference=AHE&schedConf=AHE2010&page=paper&op=view&path%5B%5D=38&path%5B%5D=0

William Black (Economics) has had numerous media appearances and interviews in recent months.
See:- http://www.trutv.com/video/conspiracy-theory/liars-loans.html

Diane Mutti Burke (History) has published a book, On Slavery’s Border:  Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865, which focuses on the experiences of enslaved and slaveholding Missourians who lived and worked on farms within this state.
See:- http://www.earlyamericanplaces.org/?page_id=41
For a Missouri Research Board interview about her research
See:- http://umresearchboard.org/articles/15

Randall Wray (Economics) has published an essay on his perspective on the global financial crisis in The European. He also notes the work of his colleague, Bill Black (Economics) in identifying the origin of the crisis in fraudulent activities.
See:- http://www.theeuropean.de/wray

Faculty from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures used a Teaching Enhancement Grant (K. Krause and L. Myers, co-investigators) to attend a “Foreign Languages and Cultures Across the Curriculum” conference in Saratoga Springs, NY to research the possibility of starting such a program at UMKC. Lindsy Myers and Scott Baker will give a presentation as part of the FACET seminar series later this year.
See:- http://clac2010.wordpress.com/program and http://www.umkc.edu/provost/facet/

Kathy Krause, (Chair)  began a three-year term as a member of the Fulbright Review Committee for faculty fellowships to Belgium-Luxembourg-E.U.-and Poland.
See:- http://www.cies.org/
She also presented two papers this Fall: “Noblewomen and the Writing of History in Picardy and Flanders” as part of a panel on Lordship, History and the Dominae of Northern France at the Haskins Society Annual Conference at Boston College and  “The Charters of the Countesses of Ponthieu in the Thirteenth Century” at the Western Society for French History Conference, Lafayette, LA.
See:- http://haskinsatbostoncollege.blogspot.com/2010/07/2010-conference-schedule-and.html and http://www.wsfh.org/annual-conferences.html.

Kenneth Baker gave an invited lecture at the University of Exeter, Sept. 7-9, 2010 entitled “Schiller, Gutzkow, Laube, Hebbel—German Historical Drama of the 1850s.” It will be published next spring, in the Yearbook of the Forum Vormärz Forschung.
See: http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/conferences/gutzkow/
He also published an essay: “The ‘Nature’ of Pleasure: Homosexuality as Trope in Early Brecht.” in Limbus: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies 3 (2010): 195-210. The topic of the Yearbook was “After Nature.”
See:- http://arts.monash.edu.au/german/limbus/

Gayle Levy is just beginning her three-year term on the national screening committee for the Fullbright Student Program to Western Europe.
See:- http://us.fulbrightonline.org/about.html

Larson Powell, co-edited special issue of Musik-Konzepte, no. 150 (2010) on Stefan Wolpe.
See:- http://www.etk-muenchen.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=139523&template=neu_werke_default_musik
He also published : “The Modulated Subject: Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie II,” Search: Journal for New Music, no. 7, Summer 2010 and gave two invited lectures:“Heimat through a Double Lens: Wolf’s Einmal ist Keinmal.” Humboldt-Kolleg in honor of Jost Hermand, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Nov. 19, 2010.  and  “Adorno and the American Radio,” University of Colorado – Boulder, CO, Nov. 11, 2010 (inaugural guest lecture for new program in Critical Theory).
See:- http://german.lss.wisc.edu/~smoedersheim/hermand/ and http://www.searchnewmusic.org/powell_stockhausen.pdf

Kati Toivanen (Chair, Art and Art History) had an exhibition of her work Domestic Debris at the Art &Design Gallery of the University of Kansas in October, 2010.
See:- http://ereview.org/2010/09/27/spots-spiders-and-sweepings-kati-toivanen/

The English Department reports many exciting activities and achievements as we move through the current semester.
See-: http://cas.umkc.edu/english/Newsletter.pdf

Recognitions

Monday, October 11th, 2010

Tina Niemi (Geosciences) was granted a Fulbright Specialist award (www.cies.org/specialists/) to work with the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa in Israel (http://marsci.haifa.ac.il/about.htm). Niemi spent five and a half weeks in Summer 2010 at the new Department of Marine Geosciences doing a workshop on the Quaternary Evolution of the Gulf of Eilat/Aqaba. Niemi and colleagues will edit a special volume on the topic in Quaternary International, the Journal of the International Union for Quaternary Research.

Pellom McDaniels (History) received the  2010 Julius E. William Distinguished Community Service Award from the NAACP at its national convention in Kansas City this summer. The award is for his exhibit “They Came to Fight” and the website and outreach related to African Americans in WWI.
See:- http://www.theycametofight.org/docs/the-came-to-fight-press-release.pdf and www.theycametofight.org

The Dept. of Communications Studies congratulates Walt Bodine on the recent celebration of his 90th Birthday and thanks him for his many years of service to the department and its students as an adjunct professor. as well as KCUR 89.3 FM. For the past 25 years, Walt has worked at KCUR 89.3 FM hosting KCUR’s Walt Bodine Show. An endowed scholarship is planned.
See:- http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/10/2214033/kcur-reworking-bodines-monday.html and http://www.kcurmultimedia.org/WaltBodine/default.asp

Jim Sheppard (Philosophy) has had his course Environmental Ethics and Policy recognized as one of the top five environmental classes in the nation by the Sierra Club in August 2010.
See:- http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201009/coolschools/fantasydraft.aspx

Clancy Martin (Chair, Philosophy) continues to get accolades for his novel How to Sell.
See:- http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-30/jonathan-franzen-recommends-4-overlooked-books/

Katie Kline (English) and the teachers affiliated with the Greater KC Writing Project were featured on Monday evening August 2, 2010 FOX 4 News broadcast! The news story focused on the ways in which area teachers are meeting the needs of ELL (English Language Learning) students. Check out the video link below. Congratulations for Katie and the GKCWP!
See:- http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-story-english-second-language-080210,0,2592912.story

Veronica N. Wilson-Tagoe ( Black Studies) has told us of her chapter “Feminism and Womanism” in A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature published earlier this year.
See:- http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405135034,descCd-tableOfContents.html

Richard Delaware (Mathematics and Statistics) has reported on the work of the Southwest Early College Campus Mathematics Team (that included Dr. Frank Gardella of Hunter College ) over the last two years. Since the completion of that report in June 2010, the team has grown from 7 to 17 with expansion of the school from under 500 to over 1600 students. He also has prepared over 40 Mathematics Video Shorts featuring the students of Southwest with the help of an $18,000 grant from PREP-KC. These can be viewed below on the Southwest YouTube Channel which Dr. Delaware maintains.
See:- http://cas.umkc.edu/mathematics/MathTeamReport06-01-10.pdf and http://www.youtube.com/user/southwestecc

Linna Place, Director of International Academic Programs reported in May that Maria Iliakova, a triple major in Biology, Chemistry and Spanish in May 2010, had been awarded a Fulbright to study biology in Barcelona, Spain. Maria also had been in the High School Science, Mathematics and Technology Institute taught by Charles Wurrey, (Chemistry) Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor.

The UMKC Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society, was chosen to be among the 12 Best Chapters (out of more than 700) in AY 2009-2010. This recognition is based on an evaluation of the local chapter’s activities program over the academic year according to Beth Miller, their faculty adviser. The award carries a cash prize as well.

Two Sociology majors Kianda Simmons and Dorian Johnson decided to empower and lead fifth to eighth grade girls at Central Academy through a program they created and funded called “Precious Minds.” They were to be recognized by Mayor Funkhouser for their volunteer efforts in May 2010.
See:- http://www2.kcmsd.net/Lists/News1/DispForm.aspx?ID=1185

Deborah Smith (Sociology) has seen a revision of her 2007 award winning paper from The Gerontological Society of America’s Civic Engagement in an Older America Initiative published in Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.
See:- http://info.umkc.edu/umatters/books-etc-2/

Foreign Languages and Literatures faculty, Kathy Krause had an article published, Xanath Caraza had a short story included in an anthology , and Gayle Levy completed a translation that will be a chapter in a book to be published later this year.
See:- http://cas.umkc.edu/ForeignLanguages/FacultyNews.asp and http://cas.umkc.edu/ForeignLanguages/Students-Alumni.asp

Kerri Stowell, who graduated from A&S with a degree in Communications Studies, is now part of KMBZ 9 “First News”. Her career has taken her to Louisiana, Iowa and Nebraska prior to returning to Kansas City.
See:- http://www.kmbc.com/station/24576658/detail.html

Barry Anderson (Art and Art History) had a showing at the Lawrence Art Center June 18 through July 17 that included this piece “Treebeasties”.He also works displayed as part of an exhibit of videos and short films at the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles, July 10 through August 20.

Clancy Martin (Chair, Philosophy) published an article in Harper’s magazine in June, 2010 and one in The London Review of Books in July, 2010.
See:- http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/06/0082994 and http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/clancy-martin/things-they-dont-want-to-hear.
He also was interviewed about the themes in his forthcoming book Love, Lies and Marriage, the writing of which was supported by UMRB grants.
See:- http://umresearchboard.org/resources/162

Elijah Gowin (Art and Art History) had his work ‘Into the Sun” exhibited in May 2010 at Dolphin.
See: http://elijahgowin.blogspot.com/

Caroline Davies (Geosciences) reports that she and four environmental studies majors have been awarded a grant for $10,000 to develop and test desiccants and solar collectors to address water needs in developing countries. This is part of the national EPA P3 National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet. They will be presenting their design and research results at the National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington DC, April 2011.
See:- http://www.epa.gov/ncer/p3/index.html

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