Did You Know...

• With the completion of the new Health Sciences Building at the Hospital Hill campus, UMKC became one of fewer than 30 universities in the nation to have all four major health science schools -- Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Dentistry -- all centrally located on one campus.

• UMKC researchers were awarded more than $46 million in research grants and contracts in 2008.

• The UMKC Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, in collaboration with the School of Computing and Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences, have developed an internationally renowned program of research on mineralized tissue -- with over $11M a year for research related to bone and teeth.

• Faculty from UMKC School of Biological Sciences have recently been published in Cell, Nature and Nature Immunology - three of the top tier journals in the field.

• Three patents were issued in 2008 to scientists in the UMKC School of Pharmacy Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

• The School of Dentistry recently received an $8.2 million gift, one of the largest individual gifts ever made to a school of dentistry in the United States.

• Two thirds of the dentists currently practicing in Missouri received their D.D.S. from the UMKC School of Dentistry.

• UMKC School of Dentistry students treat patients at the rate of approximately 80,000 patient visits per year.

• The School Medicine's Master of Science in anesthesiology is one of only five offered in the nation. The 27-month program welcomed its first class in January 2008.

• Approximately 45 percent of School of Medicine graduates live in Missouri/Metro Kansas City and St. Louis.

• The School of Nursing maintains a 3-year clinical program for B.S.N. students, the most clinical hours offered in any of the local Nursing programs.

• The School of Nursing recently received a $1.75 million Health & Human Services grant to establish the UMKC Rural Nursing Initiative, designed to increase the numbers of baccalaureate-level registered nurses serving populations in rural areas.

• The UMKC School of Pharmacy was recently selected to receive the 2009 Student Community Engaged Service Award by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. UMKC was one of only four pharmacy schools in the nation to receive this inaugural award, which recognizes student-led community engagement projects.

• Approximately 70 percent of School of Pharmacy graduates stay in the Kansas City metro area or surrounding counties and towns.

• The School of Biological Sciences Fungal Genetic Stock Center (FGSC) recently received a five-year National Science Foundation grant extension to continue operation of the center. The FGSC houses one of the largest collections of fungal samples available to researchers worldwide.

• 80 percent of School of Nursing graduates who attend classes in the Kansas City area (not distance-learners) remain in the Kansas City area to practice.

• The UMKC Health Sciences Building, which opened in the fall of 2007, features more than 225,000 square feet of classroom, lab, research and office space and was awarded first place in the Public Projects category of the 2008 Cornerstone Awards presented by the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) of Kansas City.

• 2009 School of Medicine graduates: 38 percent remain in Missouri for their residencies; 33 percent going into primary care/family medicine.