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January 05, 2018
The holiday season is over … the wrapping paper that was strewn about the room has been collected and discarded; the lights unstrung and put away, the needles from the greens swept up. The New Year is upon us. It’s 2018. We are now in our 175th anniversary year. It will be August before we…
January 05, 2018
The Siegal Lifelong Learning Program will offer several courses on a variety of topics—ranging from the 1960s to the Booker Prize winners—beginning in January. Each course will last for eight weeks. Courses beginning in January are: Contemporary Feminine Voices (Sundays beginning Jan. 7) A…
January 05, 2018
The PeopleSoft Student Information System (SIS) will undergo planned maintenance Sunday, Jan. 7, between 3 and 6 a.m. During this timeframe, SIS and SIS Mobile will not be available to members of the university community.
January 05, 2018
Pallavi Tiwari’s passion for biomedical engineering started in a garage in India. When she and a college friend realized the difficulty people with blindness have in navigating their surroundings—especially indoors—they set to work in Tiwari’s garage, teaching themselves how to solder. They then…
January 05, 2018
The Advincula Research Group, led by Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering Rigoberto Advincula, received new funding totaling $180,000 from Honeywell–Kansas City National Security Campus. The funding is for 3-D printing of high-performance polymer materials in additive…
January 05, 2018
Angela Ciccia, associate professor of communication sciences, won the 2017 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Distinguished Member Award. The award honors an ACRM member who has made significant contributions to the organization as a chair of a committee, task force,…
January 05, 2018
As part of Educational Services for Students Disability Resources’ recognition of October as Disability Awareness Month, the office created the Outstanding Faculty Advocate Award. Students registered with the office were asked to nominate faculty members who were exceptional advocates for students…
January 05, 2018
The university community is invited to join Arnold Hirshon, associate provost and university librarian, as he presents “The Future of the Book in a Digital Age” Saturday, Jan. 20, at 1 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship. Hirshon will give a condensed—and perhaps…
January 05, 2018
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences International Education Programs Office invites university community members to bring their lunches and learn more about study abroad options in Guatemala and Nicaragua during spring break and summer break. This information…
January 05, 2018
The University Farm will offer its one-day “ABCs of Honey Bees” course twice on two Saturdays this winter: Feb. 17 and March 17. This four-hour course will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day in the Main Lab Administration Building, Kutina Classroom. Directional signs will be posted. The…