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Tom Grossi

Q&A with Tom Grossi

Cristian Martinez, Sports Editor
August 25, 2022

The Packast is a channel rising rapidly on the YouTube platform, created by former comedian and teacher Tom Grossi. In anticipation of my upcoming article series, Grossi provides some backstory to some of his most popular video/streaming concepts and the future of his show. The...

UrinatingTree, YouTube

Q&A with Urinating Tree

Cristian Martinez, Sports Editor
August 25, 2022

UrinatingTree is a sports-based Youtube channel founded by Steve Linkowski in 2010. Even though he started as an unknown video game reviewer, his historical videos on sports franchises and weekly uploads that cover the NFL season jolted him to over 500K subscribers. During...

Miller Learning Center

New Health Sciences building promotes collaboration between healthcare fields

Ross Tipton, Writer
August 23, 2022

UMKC is poised to begin work on a new health science building in the UMKC Health Sciences District, housing new, state-of-the-art dental teaching clinics and expanded medical school teaching facilities.   This project will take the Health Sciences District to the next...

UMKC costume design program listed as one of best in country

UMKC costume design program listed as one of best in country

Alivia Meyers
May 3, 2022

The Hollywood Reporter recently gave UMKC’s costume design program high praise and listed it as one of the best places to study the art and technology of costume design.  In their article “The Top 10 Costume Design Schools in the U.S.,” the Hollywood Reporter listed...

UMKC opens new, on-campus COVID testing center

UMKC opens new, on-campus COVID testing center

Robin Ramsey
March 8, 2022

UMKC has partnered with Curative, a mobile COVID testing center, to offer free nasal PCR tests to UMKC faculty, students and the general public.  According to UMKC Today, UMKC decided to partner with Curative because local COVID testing shortages made it difficult to...

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