All posts by Jodi Fortino
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State of Coronavirus in Kansas City Metro
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Thursday morning that the city is under a state of emergency for at least 21 days. “Protecting all of...
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Barbara Bichelmeyer leaves UMKC
Barbara Bichelmeyer joined UMKC as a provost and executive vice chancellor in the fall of 2015, nine weeks before the Ferguson protests made their way...
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TeachScope: UMKC professors use artificial intelligence to identify implicit biases
A team of UMKC faculty is using artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way students and teachers communicate with each other in the classroom. The project...
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Law school to host Expungement Day event
More than 200 people are expected to attend Expungement receiving free access to their criminal records and reviewing what convictions qualify for removal from their...
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From Yale to Wimbledon, UMKC costume design among world’s best
The UMKC Theatre department’s costume design program is no game of dress up. For the second year in a row, the Hollywood Reporter included it...
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Students invent deep-learning technology to help the visually impaired
A headband that can move objects without touch. A pair of glasses that can narrate the world without sight. This futuristic technology may sound like...
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Students hope for more space, better facilities in new conservatory building
Some UMKC Conservatory students are celebrating after Chancellor Mauli Agrawal announced the new conservatory will remain on campus. Others are hesitant to express excitement, due...
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Modern art or the work of a toddler?
The semester may have just started, but results of an art survey fielded through UMKC and other top universities have been released by the platform...
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ALAS speaker Steve Ellner discusses Maduro’s Venezuela
Venezuela may be nearly 3,000 miles away, but speaker Steve Ellner brought the country to the forefront Nov. 15 at UMKC to discuss its challenges...
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Association of Latin American Students raise scholarship money for Dreamers
Hispanic Heritage Month may have ended in October, but UMKC’s Association of Latin American Students (ALAS) is still celebrating this month after earning a nearly...
