A handful of students in the Bloch School's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (IEI) received a boost toward success in the business community. April 30th, IEI announced the winning teams of the 2010 Regnier Family Foundations Venture Creation...

In an age of corporate downsizing, nobody's job is safe. One option is to take your skills and start your own business, keeping your future in your own hands. That is exactly what hundreds of people have done with help from the Missouri Small Business and '...

One UMKC pre-dental student has a vision of putting smiles on the faces of men, women and children across the Metro area. Eve Lofthus came up with idea for Smile Academy in August 2009. Since then, she has been working to launch the effort to provide pr...

Robots took over Miller Nichols Library May 12 and the UMKC Friends of the Library were there to witness it. While some library visitors gathered round to view little robots lining tables on the third floor of the library, others gathered in the new addi...

Families around the world can now say they have a home thanks to the efforts of Habitat For Humanity (HFH). HFH is a non-profit organization that builds homes for families in need with the help of volunteers and donations. Habitat operates in nearly 90...

With the U.S. unemployment rate lingering around 10 percent, it's a difficult market to land a job. Jobs are tough to come by for seasoned professionals, recent graduates and, particularly, students looking for some valuable experience in the workforce ...

Two new faces have arrived on Capital Hill and they look alarmingly like Roos. In fact, they are Roos. UMKC students Jacquelyn Hoermann and Kendra Burgess are spending the summer in Washington, D.C., learning about the intricacies of politics. Part of t...

Tim Williams, an Engineering Student, asked, 'Is there any difference between processing my debit card as credit or debit? Why do the stores ask me?' If your debit card carries the logo for Visa or Mastercard, you can use it anywhere you see those logos....

UMKC Graduate Rachel Waldemer recently received the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Fellowship Award. Waldemer graduated from UMKC in the spring with a Bachelor of Science Degree, majoring in Biology, Chemistry and Spanish. 'I'm really excited and happy ab...

For three seniors in the School of Computing and Engineering, not even the graduation ceremony could keep them from the American Society of Mechanical Engineer's Human Powered Vehicle Challenge May 5-7 at the University of Central Connecticut. and nbsp...

With their newly-built buggy and a U-Haul van, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Team from the School of Computing and Engineering headed to South Carolina to compete against some of the best schools in America. This was the second year for the t...

Armed with new parts and a cutting-edge operating system, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Robotics Team from the School of Computing and Engineering headed to Dallas, Texas, April 17-18 to compete against the best teams around....

The UMKC community came together May 3 to celebrate the life of Dr. Kuang Lu Cheng, retired professor Emeritus of Chemistry. Eckhard Hellmuth, professor Emeritus of Chemistry, said Cheng was a dedicated teacher and researcher up until the day he died, Ma...

May 11 10:46 a.m. Accidental Damage - A pane of a glass door appeared to have been accidentally broken in the Fine Arts Building. May 13 12:30 p.m. Larceny and ndash; A staff member returned to his vehicle in the UMKC parking area 5 and found his...

UMKC awards two honorary degrees

Health experts say the average adult needs at least sevem to eight hours of sleep a night. People who don't get enough sleep are at greater risk of obesity and diseases like diabetes, stroke, heart disease, depression and high blood pressure. Workers who...

The first video game was invented by Willy Higginbotham. Higginbotham was no teenage computer wiz kid, however. In the early 1940s, he worked on advanced radar displays for B28 bombers and went on to work for the Manhattan Project, where he designed the...

The UMKC Theatre Department bid farewell to six graduates May 6. Graduates with M.F.A's in Acting, Nicholas Alan Gehlfuss, Bennett Ferguson, Rachel Hirshorn, Tyler Horn, Helen Gonzalez and Anna Safar gave their final acting performances at UMKC before he...

Kansas City has a national reputation for good barbeque and great jazz. But there aren't a lot of people who automatically associate rap music with the city. UMKC film studies student Chris Williamson wants to change that. June 17, his feature-length fi...

Emily Mertz Modern tattoos are often pictures depicting feelings or some sort of design. Other tattoos, however, use words to send a message. Sophmore Emily Mertz decided to choose one word that could mean anything: 'Saudade.' The Portuguese word, when...