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 […]
U.S. Dept. of Energy program offers students opportunity for hands-on genetic sequencing experience The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Biological Sciences was recently selected as one of only 20 universities nationwide to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2010-2011 Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Education Program. The program, supported by DOE’s Office […]
Grant from National Science Foundation will fund development of ‘Whiteboard to Boardroom’ program From new and improved educational technologies to cutting-edge medical devices, researchers and scholars at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) are continually at the forefront of innovation and invention. When it comes to commercializing and bringing those innovations to market, however, UMKC […]
Interdisciplinary group of researchers to study ‘crosstalk’ between bones and muscles. The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently announced the awarding of a “Grand Opportunity” grant to the Bone Biology and Muscle Biology Groups at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). The grant was […]
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