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…
Working together for safe, inclusive communities
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel Perpetrators of hate crimes seek to victimize entire communities. The shootings at two Jewish centers in Overland…
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.
Kansas Citians speak at Middle of the Map Fest Forum: live blog
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KU Hospital, others attacking problem of child deaths
Mike Sherry – The Hale Center for Journalism Chloe Robinson was about the size of a bag of frozen spinach at birth. Born 15 weeks early and weighing only 1 pound, she spent her first eight months in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Kansas Hospital. That was five years ago, and,…
Profile: John Coler of Techstars
John Coler is a young Kansas City-based entrepreneur who has worked in different areas throughout the local entrepreneur community. Recently, he joined the Techstars team and is now based out of the Sprint Accelerator in the Crossroads District.
Moveon.Org poll shows most Kansans support Medicaid expansion
But Brownback campaign skeptical of the results By Jim McLean KHI News Service April 8, 2014 TOPEKA — Poll results released today indicate that the Medicaid expansion issue could be a factor in the Kansas governor’s race. The poll, conducted last week for MoveOn.org Political Action, a left-leaning group dedicated to “progressive change,” showed that 52 percent…
1 Million Cups with RareWire and Leap.it
Entrepreneurs filled the auditorium inside the Kauffman Foundation for the anniversary edition of 1 Million Cups. This week featured one presenter with a mobile app development tool and another with a socially integrated search engine.