The Quad

As of this issue, A&S has a total of 24,825 living alumni. Of these, 13,094 reside in the KC Metropolitan area.

The A&S Theatre Department’s Undergraduate Spring Production is set to open February 24. For more details about this period piece written entirely in verse, see:
http://cas.umkc.edu/theatre/Playbill/09-10/LaBete.htm

Also, remember that their World Premier of Slammed is February 12. http://cas.umkc.edu/theatre/Playbill/09-10/Slammed2.htm

Jim Falls both looks back over his years at UMKC and to the future in this interview.
Renowned History professor to retire

In Spring 2010, total UMKC initial enrollment was 12,157 of which 4,139 were in A&S. In Spring 2009, the numbers were 11,639 and 3,911.

A recent count indicates that fewer than one third of A&S faculty have joined the “experts” list established by the UMKC public relations office. Join the experts list and be available to the media. Help put A&S out into the community. Go to:
http://www.umkc.edu/news/experts/add_expert.asp

In Spring 2010, A&S will have 34 percent of UMKC’s enrollment in its classes and A&S faculty will teach 41.3 percent of all credit hours earned at UMKC. In Spring 2009, the counterpart percentages were 33.6 percent and 42 percent.

We know that all A&S units are being cost conscious in these lean budget years. But for those with approved activities and programs that have need for guest lodging convenient to campus, we call your attention to a current offer from The Raphael hotel that can further save money. Because UMKC holds a preferred client status at The Raphael, they are holding our negotiated rates of $135 per night valid through 2010. As an added bonus, they are offering a special Renovation Celebration rate of $99 for a standard room and $139 for a suite through April 2010. The renovation increased their capabilities to accommodate small meetings.

For more information contact: Nancy D’Amico at 816-802-2142 or nancy@raphaelkc.com.

A&S Faculty with current NSF Grants (with end dates after 10-31-09).
We are still working to get recent grant and award data from all funding sources from ORS on A&S research and scholarly activities. We were able to obtain the following information on those grants that are funded by NSF.

Jimmy Adegoke, (Geosciences) $497,268
Geosciences Education …
Michael Kruger (Physics) $416,405
Nanocrystalline Alumina…
Zhonghua Peng (Chemistry $300,000
Poloxometalate-containing
Jerzy Wrobel (Physics) $260,511
MRI: Development of a High…
Yong Zeng (Math/Statistics) $94,454
Statistical Analysis of Filtering …

Total A&S NSF support for this period = $1,568,638.
Total UMKC NSF for this period = $8,543,025.
A&S Share = 18.4 percent

If we include the KCTEach-Noyes Scholarship (monies where we joined with others Schools in getting the award), the dollar amount goes to $2,487,638 and the A&S share of recent NSF funding was 29.1 percent.

Elijah Gowin (Art and Art History)
For more information go to:  www.tinroofpress.com

Dr. Jennifer Martin

Dr. Jennifer Martin, Hall Family Foundation Professor of Theatre, was the developer and founding editor of the Journal of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. It is a peer-reviewed digital, kinetic, on-line journal designed specifically for research and scholarship in movement-dependent art forms including theatre, dance and performance art.  Her prototype article “Using a Period Movement Score in Actor, Training, Rehearsal and Performance: The Restoration Period and “The Country Wife” can be viewed through the following link:

• www.ATMEWEB.org/resources/digital_journal.shtml

Michael Henry (Communications Studies) is the only A&S faculty member to be named to the 13-member UM System eMentors group to work with others interested in “…integrating eLearning methodologies into their courses…”  Michael has been teaching online courses for over 15 years. To learn more about Michael and the eMentors group, go to:  www.umsystem.edu/ums/departments/aa/elearning/ementors.shtm

Kristi Holsinger (Criminal Justice and Criminology) has combined  her  teaching and research with service learning for her students as mentors in the juvenile justice system. See:
www.umkc.edu/news/feature.asp?id=117

Tony Caruso (Physics) has just been awarded $293,722 by the Office of Naval Research to further his research on developing a High Efficiency Solid State Neutron Detector.

Dr. Jennifer Martin, Hall Family Foundation Professor of Theatre, was the developer and founding editor of the Journal of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. It is a peer-reviewed digital, kinetic, on-line journal designed specifically for research and scholarship in movement-dependent art forms including theatre, dance and performance art.  Her prototype article “Using a Period Movement Score in Actor, Training, Rehearsal and Performance: The Restoration Period and “The Country Wife” can be viewed through the following link:

• www.ATMEWEB.org/resources/digital_journal.shtml

Michael Henry (Communications Studies) is the only A&S faculty member to be named to the 13-member UM System eMentors group to work with others interested in “…integrating eLearning methodologies into their courses…”  Michael has been teaching online courses for over 15 years. To learn more about Michael and the eMentors group, go to

• www.umsystem.edu/ums/departments/aa/elearning/ementors.shtm

Kristi Holsinger (Criminal Justice and Criminology) has combined  her  teaching and research with service learning for her students as mentors in the juvenile justice system. See:

• www.umkc.edu/news/feature.asp?id=117

Tony Caruso (Physics) has just been awarded $293,722 by the Office of Naval Research to further his research on developing a High Efficiency Solid State Neutron Detector.
Dan McIntosh (Physics) studies galaxies and their mergers and has his students looking to the stars for data. He has been featured in several recent interviews and stories and was just awarded a two-year grant titled: “Catching Galaxies in the Act” in the amount of $42,988 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. See also:

http://www.umkc.edu/news/feature.asp?id=113
http://archive.kcur.org/kcurViewDirect.asp?PlayListID=7071

Keith Buszek (Chemistry) was interviewed about the counterintuitive research results that emerged from the joint efforts of two teams of synthetic chemists and computational chemists involving faculty at UMKC, UCLA and the University of Minnesota. For the interview, go to:

• http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/January/18011001.asp

Toya Like (Criminal Justice and Criminology) was interviewed by KCTV5 after a recent homicide and discusses the data reporting that Missouri has the second highest rate of homicides among blacks. For more, go to:

• http://www.kctv5.com/news/2236009 4/detail.html
• http://www.kctv5.com/video/22359997/index.html

Dr. D. V. S Muthu and Paul R. Scott in front of a Raman spectrometer

Paul R. Scott has returned to UMKC upon completion of this competitive internship awarded by the Research Internships in Science and Engineering sponsored by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum and the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. He did his internship in the area of spectroscopic condensed matter physics in which one research technique is called Raman spectroscopy. The unique nature of his internship was that he was employing the technique at the research center created by its developer, Nobel Laureate C.V. Raman. To see more go to:

• http://indousstf.org/pdf/January_2010.pdf and scroll to “Crossover Pursuits.”

HSCP Summer Workshop

A&S faculty coordinators at the HS/CP Summer Workshop

The High School/College Partnership (HS/CP) dual credit program has grown from having two faculty members and serving two high schools in 1979 to now serving 65 schools and having as faculty more than 220 Master Teachers. Another 40 high school faculty are currently enrolled in graduate course work at UMKC and MU to qualify to teach UMKC courses in their high schools for dual credit. HS/CP currently offers more than 90 courses in 19 disciplines and, in AY 2008-09, more than 4,700 different students took HS/CP courses.

Three women have served as directors: Anna Larkin (1979-2004), Tammy Green (2004-2006), and Lynne Clawson-Day (2006-present). Curators Distinguished Teaching Professor Charles Wurrey (Chemistry) was instrumental in getting the program started.

The program brings more than 5,000 students to campus each year for competitions, workshops and guest lectures. One such event was the Foreign Language Fair held on October 6, 2009 – the 11th in the yearly series.

• HS/CP was the first accredited program in Missouri. To see what accrediting requires, go to http://nacep.org