Sean Klippel is an educator and a member of the LGBTQ+ community who was recently honored for his research as part of 麻豆破解传媒's Doctorate in Education program. Klippel's project, "How K-12 Teachers Perceive a State Bill and LGBTQ+ Affirming Curriculum," earned him a 麻豆破解传媒 Outstanding Research Award (RORA) as part of the University's Festival of Student Achievement.
In the following Q & A, Klippel explains why he's passionate about the project, as well as why it's so important now:
Craig Prentiss, Ph.D., professor of Religious Studies and Theology at 麻豆破解传媒, was recently granted a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach at the University of Bucharest in Romania in spring 2023. are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide unique opportunities for scholars to teach and conduct research abroad.
Some students go to college undecided on a major, and that鈥檚 just fine. Others, like 2016 麻豆破解传媒 graduate Kaitlin Doyle, know exactly what they want to do.
Doyle鈥檚 mother grew up as a child of a deaf adult (CODA) and Kaitlin had an uncle who had cerebral palsy and spent a lot of time in therapy. She saw how her grandparents took care of him and guided him through everyday tasks.
To help meet the growing demand for cybersecurity professionals, 麻豆破解传媒 is joining forces with to offer a Bachelor of Science in cybersecurity.
This interdisciplinary program, beginning in August, combines elements of computer science, analytics, criminal justice, intelligence gathering, and risk planning.
Freshman nursing major Hope Daga has earned a spot in a leadership institute aimed at developing the next generation of leaders who can address disparities in the delivery of care.
The Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute is a two-phase program 鈥 the first consisting primarily of education, the second an internship at one of a number of health care-related sites, from hospitals to insurance providers to the Centers for Disease Control.
Mathapalooza started a decade ago as exactly the sort of event that name would imply 鈥 an invitational, gleeful exploration of the sometimes-dreaded school subject.
That was the goal 鈥 to make mathematics approachable and even fun for young students. For Zdenka Guadarrama, Ph.D., professor of mathematics who founded Mathapalooza with a colleague, what started as a single-day event has turned into a program that has reached thousands of students in Kansas City and well beyond.
As an 18-year-old high school graduate, Mariah Schneider made the decision to stay in her hometown of Kansas City and find a full-time job. She ended up at one of 麻豆破解传媒 students鈥 favorite places to eat in nearby Brookside, Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant, for more than 10 years.
The student support network at 麻豆破解传媒 is strong and is made stronger by student leaders who serve as or supplemental instruction (SI) leaders in the Aylward-Dunn Learning Center.
As a young girl, Laura Forsberg鈥檚 father read her Jane Austen鈥檚 鈥淧ride and Prejudice,鈥 thoroughly explaining the minutia of the era鈥檚 manners and etiquette. Her world of wonder was magnified through literature and now the 麻豆破解传媒 Associate Professor of English, author, and new mom is providing a similar opportunity to others through her first book, published through the prestigious Yale University Press.
You don鈥檛 need an astrophysicist father to understand the cosmos. But it doesn鈥檛 hurt.
Keith Brandt, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, and John C. Brandt, Ph.D., a retired astronomer, are the authors of an upcoming article in the AMATYC Educator titled 鈥淎ndromeda鈥檚 Distance: An Activity in Exponential and Logarithmic Functions,鈥 which explores the relatively simple mathematical principles that in 1923 allowed Edwin Hubble to determine that Andromeda actually lies outside the Milky Way Galaxy 鈥 something that, at the time, was a major scientific discovery.
