Month: April 2018

Two law enforcement officers in Wyandotte County graduated recently from the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center in Yoder, Kansas.

The two were Miranda Lawson and Wesley Winters, patrol officers with the University of Kansas Medical Center Police Department in Kansas City, Kansas.

Students in the class received certificates of course completion from KLETC and Kansas law enforcement certification from the Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training, the state’s law enforcement licensing authority. The training course fulfills the state’s requirement for law enforcement training.

The center, located near Hutchinson, Kansas, is a division of University of Kansas Professional and Continuing Education.

Undergraduate researchers from Kansas City, Kansas, were among those making presentations on Sunday, April 15, in the Developing Scholars Program Research Poster Symposium at Kansas State University.

In the program, students are provided with opportunities to participate in research projects with a faculty mentor. The students receive academic, social and financial support while participating in the project.

Students from Kansas City, Kansas, making presentations included:

• Marcellus Brown, “Intersecting Logic and Energy Transfer Through Engineering Design: Shifting Mental Frameworks for Conceptualizing Natural Phenomena”;
• Carolina Bueno, “Effects of Gap Junction Enhancers in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells”;
• Jaymond Kelly, “Blockade of B2-GPI Decreases Hypoxic Tissue Damage”;
• Luis Lopez, “Evaluation of an Immunomodulatory Feed Additive During the Transition Period: Immune Cell Counts in Blood”;
• Ingrid Silva, “Effects of Folic Acid Supplementation on Critical Speed”;
• Monica Tlaxcalteca-Romero, “Studies Toward the Development of a Universal Transport Method for Gram-Negative Bacteria”;
• Chelsea Turner, “Stories of Resistance & Resilience: Indigenous Hip-Hop in the Heartland.”