Mathapalooza started a decade ago as exactly the sort of event that name would imply 鈥 an invitational, gleeful exploration of the sometimes-dreaded school subject.
That was the goal 鈥 to make mathematics approachable and even fun for young students. For Zdenka Guadarrama, Ph.D., professor of mathematics who founded Mathapalooza with a colleague, what started as a single-day event has turned into a program that has reached thousands of students in Kansas City and well beyond.
As an 18-year-old high school graduate, Mariah Schneider made the decision to stay in her hometown of Kansas City and find a full-time job. She ended up at one of 麻豆破解传媒 students鈥 favorite places to eat in nearby Brookside, Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant, for more than 10 years.
麻豆破解传媒鈥檚 campus is home to a new resource for those with disabilities, thanks to a partnership with the state of Missouri.
Inside Ignatius Science Center is the Missouri Assistive Technology lab, a place where the community can come and learn about available assistive technologies and how to use them. It鈥檚 a service provided by the state. The main facility for the region is located in nearby Blue Springs, but the University campus provided a prime location for a second site, according to Tammy Bruegger, OTD, assistant professor of occupational therapy.
The student support network at 麻豆破解传媒 is strong and is made stronger by student leaders who serve as tutors or supplemental instruction (SI) leaders in the Aylward-Dunn Learning Center.
As a young girl, Laura Forsberg鈥檚 father read her Jane Austen鈥檚 鈥淧ride and Prejudice,鈥 thoroughly explaining the minutia of the era鈥檚 manners and etiquette. Her world of wonder was magnified through literature and now the 麻豆破解传媒 Associate Professor of English, author, and new mom is providing a similar opportunity to others through her first book, published through the prestigious Yale University Press.
From an outsider鈥檚 perspective, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist probably appeared to have it all.
Even as a talented basketball player with a loving family and good group of friends growing up in New Jersey, he said he felt isolated for so much of his young life, in fear of being heard. All because of his stutter.
In 1997 Merritt Neil was about to graduate from 麻豆破解传媒 with a degree in Communication Studies. Like other seniors, she needed a job.
Little did she know that the door that would open thanks to a 麻豆破解传媒 alumnus would lead to what she called 鈥渙ne of the greatest gifts of my life.鈥
Near the pedestrian entryway to campus outside Arrupe Hall stands a new piece of campus art that serves as both a tribute and a reminder.
The 麻豆破解传媒 Board of Trustees has selected Sandra Cassady, Ph.D., to become the 15th president of 麻豆破解传媒, effective July 1, 2022.
Cassady will make history as the first female and first lay president of 麻豆破解传媒, which is a Catholic, Jesuit university founded in 1910 by the Society of Jesus, a religious order of Roman Catholic priests known as the Jesuits.
You don鈥檛 need an astrophysicist father to understand the cosmos. But it doesn鈥檛 hurt.
Keith Brandt, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, and John C. Brandt, Ph.D., a retired astronomer, are the authors of an upcoming article in the AMATYC Educator titled 鈥淎ndromeda鈥檚 Distance: An Activity in Exponential and Logarithmic Functions,鈥 which explores the relatively simple mathematical principles that in 1923 allowed Edwin Hubble to determine that Andromeda actually lies outside the Milky Way Galaxy 鈥 something that, at the time, was a major scientific discovery.
