Professors Jimmy Adegoke and Jejung Lee, UMKC College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geosciences, are part of a team of researchers that recently received a $1.4 million Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The three-year grant supports new research on the interactions and feedbacks between […]

The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Vision Research Center has been awarded a $100,000 grant (over two years) from the American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) for their proposal “Protection of optic nerve head astrocytes and structure in glaucoma.” Degeneration or acute damage of the retina due to glaucoma is a major cause of visual loss […]

Despite the assumption that active-duty military members are in normal weight and fit, the U.S. military is struggling with escalating rates of overweight and obesity. Studies have long shown that the increasing numbers of people in our society who are overweight or obese often suffer from reduced social status, reduced employment opportunities, and increased morbidity […]