UMKC's First Gen Roo program honored National First-Generation College Celebration Day with a week dedicated to wellness and community, supporting students whose parents did not complete a bachelor's degree in the U.S.   The theme of the 2024 National First Generation...

 The new Uplift Resource Drive in the Bloch School wants to provide resources to the unhoused population of KC, and Alice Oropeza is ready to take action.    Community members will be able to donate items until Nov. 21 and the supplies, such as hygiene items, will go directly...

  17 UMKC BSN students and one PhD nursing student attended an immersive disaster exercise called the Missouri Hope program that prepares participants for emergency disaster situations.    In this three-day experience students are trained to treat and transport patients...

  Student Advocates for Equity (SAFE) is a student-led group that is bringing gender-based violence advocacy and awareness to UMKC by uplifting survivors of all gender identities.   The group seeks to change the perception of gender-based violence as a women’s only issue...

  As she flipped through her household’s mail, UMKC journalism major Natalie Adams came across an envelope that altered her thoughts completely. In bold letters that read “Board of Elections,” Adams, a first-time voter, was reminded that in just a few months, the future...