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Roo Bakes: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Roo Bakes: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Kate Beilsmith
December 22, 2020

https://youtu.be/qp3cK2JGSXM Ready for the holidays? Step up your baking game with Katie Beilsmith as she shows you how to make the perfect holiday chocolate chip cookies.

UMKC student chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal posing in the volker campus student union.

UMKC students voice mixed opinions on shift to online-only classes

Kate Beilsmith
November 30, 2020

UMKC Chancellor Mauli Agrawal announced on Nov. 18 that most of the remaining in-person classes will move online for the rest of the semester. Clinicals, labs, and experiential classes will remain in-person, but all lecture-based courses will be taught virtually.  Not...

Display in Miller Nichols Library that is celebrating 100 years of women's sufferage

“Raising Your Voice, Casting Your Vote”: University Libraries celebrates 100 years of women’s suffrage

Kate Beilsmith
November 16, 2020

In celebration of a century of women’s suffrage, University Libraries has presented a virtual display that highlights the role of music in the fight for the female vote. “Raising Your Voice, Casting Your Vote: Music of Suffrage” features suffragette albums, bands and...

UMKC College Democrats meeting targeted by racist and homophobic “Zoom bombing”

UMKC College Democrats meeting targeted by racist and homophobic “Zoom bombing”

Kate Beilsmith
October 20, 2020

Unwelcome guests entered a UMKC College Democrats Zoom meeting using racist and homophobic slurs as their names on Oct. 5. According to Charisma Sewell, the campus representative for the College Democrats who was present at the incident, the offenders were blasting music...

UMKC alumna publishes first book about the secrets of Kansas City

UMKC alumna publishes first book about the secrets of Kansas City

Kate Beilsmith
September 22, 2020

An alumna from UMKC’s Creative Writing MFA program, Anna Kniggendorf, has recently published a book about the more hidden parts of Kansas City. “Secret Kansas City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure” is not the typical city guide. Instead of exclusively writing...

Local writing business receives coronavirus resiliency grant

Local writing business receives coronavirus resiliency grant

Kate Beilsmith
September 14, 2020

According to the Washington Post, over 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed due to COVID-19. Tina Medina’s 14-year-old business, Wise Writers and Speakers, could have been one of them. Luckily, Wise Writers and Speakers was one of 23 businesses in the Kansas...

Policing expert weighs in on Mayor Lucas’s oversight measures for KCPD

Policing expert weighs in on Mayor Lucas’s oversight measures for KCPD

Kate Beilsmith
September 8, 2020

A UMKC criminal justice professor believes Mayor Lucas’s new oversight measures for KCPD are steps in the right direction, but that there is much more to be done. The measures, which were proposed amidst the unrest following George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis...

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