Spring Break
Some consider Walt Bodine a journalism legend. Many recognize Bodine from his show heard on 89.3 KCUR, but that is just one aspect of his long-lasting career. Bodine has been a regular in the journalism business for nearly 60 years. He has worked for news stations such as Fox 4 and Channel 9, as well as various radio stations.
For one UMKC graduate, tribulation fueled a determination to succeed. Kwame Turner, who just graduated with a degree in Film and Political Science with plans to attend Law School at St. Louis University, has had a challenging past couple years by most people's standards.
UMKC will directly benefit from a new initiative to address the shortage of health care professionals in Missouri. Gov. Jay Nixon visited the Hospital Hill Campus last Thursday to announce that UMKC is one of the many colleges and universities across the state which will be part of the Caring for Missourians program, an initiative to train more than 900 health care professionals to serve in critical-need areas.
Plans are in the works for a new student-run radio station run through KCUR. Student Sarah Troyer took on the idea of the new radio station as her final project for a class with Patty Cahill, general manager of KCUR. The vision of the radio station was originally born in basketball player Brian Goettinger who graduated this year.
The UMKC Students in Free Enterprises (SIFE) team had much to celebrate at their year-end gathering on April 28. The team brought home a first-place finish at the Dallas Regional in April. SIFE is a multidisciplinary campus organization that allows students to utilize personal knowledge to create projects that improve their local communities.
Hospital Hill will soon be bustling with high school and college undergraduate students with dreams of entering the medical field. The UMKC Health Sciences departments offer summer programs that reach out to young people in this community, as well as neighboring communities, getting them one step closer to those dreams.
Even as most of the university breaks for summer, the Sustainability Team is keeping an eye on the goal of greening campus. The Sustainability Team held their final meeting of the spring semester April 29 to discuss the progress made in their eight key areas of focus for 2009 and to develop game plans for summer.
Most UMKC professors want you to get a good education. One wants to change your life. His name is Stephen Pruitt, and he's a professor of Finance at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. He says his favorite part of the job is face time he gets with students.
Author Gene Healy believes Obama will go down in history as one of the least popular presidents of all time. "Barack Obama's presidency will most likely be a failed presidency," Healy said. But Healy isn't a staunch conservative paling around with Rush Limbaugh.
UMKC professor honored A UMKC professor of Physics was recognized by the state for excellence in teaching. Elizabeth R. Stoddard, Ph.D., was one of 15 educators from colleges and universities state-wide selected to receive the 2009 Governor's Award for Excellence in Education.
May 12 11:29 p.m. Larceny - A victim returned to a car parked in the Rockhill Parking Structure to find a window broken and computer speakers stolen out of the car.
