2009 Features

Renaissance Man

Bob Lambrechts has built a successful career by melding different disciplines, and believes interdisciplinary programs will make students more competi...  Full Story >>
Published: 4/2/2009 |

 

A gift that will keep on giving

Dr. Robert Cowan graduated from the University of Kansas City (now UMKC) School of Dentistry in 1949. Over the course of the ensuing 60 years, along w...  Full Story >>
Published: 3/30/2009 |

 

Everyone is a champ

In celebration of African-American History Month, sixty 4th and 5th graders from the Afrikan Centered Education Collegium Campus gathered in the E. E....  Full Story >>
Published: 3/23/2009 |

 

Dental School mobilizes to “Give Kids a Smile”

400 local elementary school students converged on the Dental School as part of the American Dental Association’s annual 'Give Kids a Smile' day....  Full Story >>
Published: 3/16/2009 |

 

What you think you see is not reality

Taking a close look at Alexander Archipenko's sculptures -"Ornaments." ...  Full Story >>
Published: 3/12/2009 |

 

It's never too late to learn

It’s not always easy being a non-traditional student. But at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, non-traditional students have found support. ...  Full Story >>
Published: 3/10/2009 11:23:21 AM |

 

The Great Debaters

In 1935, Melvin Tolson rose up against the weight of racism and poverty. The Kansas City native led Wiley College’s first African American debate te...  Full Story >>
Published: 3/9/2009 |

 

Making sense of the past

“If you want to listen to a lecture full of humor and passion, Dr. Potts is your man,” said UMKC student Mark Hays, future teacher of Secondary So...  Full Story >>
Published: 3/2/2009 |

 

Living her destiny

When Destiny Byers first heard about the School of Education’s Institute for Urban Education (IUE), she thought UMKC just might be the university fo...  Full Story >>
Published: 2/23/2009 |

 

Smitten scholars

Despite the stresses of school – and the distractions of books, beakers and ballads – several University of Missouri-Kansas City professors have m...  Full Story >>
Published: 2/16/2009 |

 


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