The College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce one staff award and four sets of faculty awards that were presented at the annual CAS Dean’s Fall Reception on September 11.
Faculty Awards are as follows:
Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award (awarded to a tenure-track or tenured faculty member)
- Laurie Ellinghausen, Ph.D., from the Department of English
Royall Distinguished Professors (honors faculty committed to research excellence, creativity, and interdisciplinarity, as well as pedagogy)
- Barry Anderson, M.F.A., from the Department of Art & Art History
- Mark Brodwin, Ph.D., from the Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Michelle Smirnova, Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology
- Lindsey Arbuthnot Clancey, M.S. from the Department of Criminal Justice & Criminology
Bernardin Research Development Grant (recipients are granted support to prepare a grant proposal in their chosen area of research)
- Majid Bani Yaghoub, Ph.D., from the Department of Mathematics & Statistics
- Alison Graettinger, Ph.D., from the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Clara Irazabal-Zurita, Ph.D., from the Latinx & Latin American Studies Program
- Ye Wang, Ph.D., from the Department of Communication Studies
Haskell Distinguished Research Award (recipients receive an award to support the completion of a scholarly project or creative work)
- Cristina Albu, Ph.D., from the Department of Art & Art History
- Hadara Bar-Nadav, Ph.D., from the Department of English
- Joseph Hartman, Ph.D., from the Latinx & Latin American Studies Program
- Sungyop Kim, Ph.D., from the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning + Design
- Fengpeng Sun, Ph.D., from the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Staff Award is as follows:
Outstanding Staff Member
(awarded to recognize outstanding contributions made by staff members who are employed by the College of Arts & Sciences with strong characteristics including: respectful, responsible, resourceful, receptive, responsive, and reasonable)
- Hannah Hohenstein-Flack, M.A., from the Department of History
Two UMKC students, Fatima Delic and Cameron Casey, have been selected as 2017 Harry S. Truman Bootstrap awardees. Chosen in a competitive process among UMKC undergraduate applicants, they will join interns from the other University of Missouri campuses living together in condos near the Capitol and working in offices of Missouri representatives and senators.
Missouri poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who both received National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships in December 2016, will take to the stage of the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library with New Letters on the Air host/producer, Angela Elam. On Wednesday, April 12th, 2017, they will discuss their recent books and “What Makes a Poem Work?” for National Poetry Month. April also marks the beginning of the 40th year of broadcasting for this nationally-distributed public radio literary show that is the companion to New Letters magazine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and can be heard locally on KCUR 89.3 FM. 
Communication Studies major Chelsea Bihlmeyer recently presented her paper, “Unpacking the Tinder Lexicon: Visual Rhetoric and Power,” at the 2017 annual conference Central States Communication Association. The paper was competitively selected, and was the result of an independent study she completed with Dr. Steven Melling during the Fall, 2016 semester.