Policy in Action panel brings tri-state representatives together to talk Innovation
The “From the Field: Policy in Action” panel at the Kauffman Foundation brought representatives from Iowa, Kansas and Missouri together to discuss entrepreneurship and innovation.
Community gathers at JCC for service of unity and hope
After the shootings that killed three people and are being investigated as a hate crime, over one thousand people gathered for an interfaith service Thursday, April 17 in Overland Park, Kan. at the Jewish Community Center where some of the violence took place. People of many faiths from across the community filled the White Theater…
Preschool Trauma Program In Kansas City Getting National Attention
By Alex Smith – KCUR Every parent knows that young children have meltdowns now and then – at home, at school, in the grocery store – but sometimes a tantrum can be more than a bad day. It can be the sign of traumatic stress. A program started in Kansas City, Kan., offers teachers and…
Brownback signs law expanding autism coverage
By Dave Ranney KHI News Service Bryan Thompson Kansas Public Radio OVERLAND PARK — Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law Wednesday a measure that is expected to make insurance coverage for autism services available to about 750 children over the next two to three years. House Bill 2744 was a compromise measure that gained eventual support from…
1 Million Cups with DropShades and CouponCloud
Every Wednesday morning entrepreneurs fill the Kauffman Foundation to the brim for 1 Million Cups. This week DropShades and CouponCloud presented their companies in the auditorium lined with a few hundred audience members.
Read and share messages of support for the victims of hate in Kansas City
The hateful acts of one person have taken the lives of three of our community members, and wounded many more. So far we’ve collected several messages of support and we’ll continue to add more as they are submitted. Read what others from across the country have written and add your message below. “An evil act….
Kansas City takes on the NASA Space Apps Challenge for 2nd Year
While many would consider going out on a Friday night to include dinner, drinks or going dancing, a select group of individuals went to Ingenology, a startup incubator in the Crossroads district, to build software for NASA’s Space Apps Challenge.
JCC to host interfaith service of unity, hope
An interfaith unity service to honor the victims of Sunday’s shootings will be held 10 a.m. Thursday at the Jewish Community Campus’ White Theatre. Clergy from different faith communities across the metro will lead the 45-minute service. Three community members were killed Sunday afternoon in shootings at two locations: Overland Park’s Jewish Community Center…
NIH director talks about one and done at KU — for flu shots
That annual flu vaccine could be a thing of the past by the end of the decade, the director of the National Institutes of Health said during a Monday visit to the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Francis Collins said that NIH-funded researchers are perhaps five years away from developing a universal flu vaccine,…
24-hour hackathon leads to new websites for nonprofits
Web pro Meg Adams stayed up for 24 hours to help design a new website for Kansas City Actors Theatre. (Photo by Caitlin Cress/Hale Center for Journalism) Caitlin Cress — The Hale Center for Journalism The project space at Think Big Partners in the Crossroads is packed: the open…
Q&A with robotics competition co-founder Dr. Woodie Flowers
Lindsey Foat – The Hale Center for Journalism Instead of seeing 58 robots competing, Dr. Woodie Flowers sees 58 solutions to a problem he created. Flowers is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, original host of the PBS series “Scientific American Frontiers” and the co-founder and creator of the…
KC Week in Review: Will she come back to Kansas? Sebelius resigns. Plus, analysis of this week’s local elections…
It’s not often someone from our area gets to hold a national cabinet level post. But that’s coming to an end for the embattled former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, who resigns this week as our nation’s Health Secretary. Not since former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft was picked by President George W. Bush to be…
Students Solve Old Problem with New Ketchup Cap
Video: John McGrath — The Hale Center for Journalism High school seniors Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson have spent a lot of time thinking about ketchup. As students in the Project Lead the Way program at North Liberty High School, Richards and Thompson have researched and developed a bottle cap that prevents that first squirt…
Kansas educators take battle over school finance bill to Twitter
For the last 35 years school librarian Nancy McFarlin has been connecting Kansas students with information, but the veteran educator said she didn’t personally realize the informative power of Twitter until last weekend. “I thought it was just one more thing to learn to do, (but now I find it) informative and current,” McFarlin, who…
Profile: Doug Peterson
Doug Peterson has worked at the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Missouri for over 25 years. He started his career as a soil scientist and is currently a state soil health conservationist. He teaches residents and farmers from around Missouri about soil health and how soil health impacts virtually all natural resources.