When students tell you they spent their summer conducting research amidst strawberry poison arrow frogs, sloths, Capuchin monkeys, great curassows (a bird), terciopelo (a venomous viper) and caimans, and you guessed they weren’t in Missouri, you would be correct. In fact, they were more than 3,000 miles from home in [...]
Sterling Fichter '13 For two alumni who earned history degrees from Missouri Western, an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition was too good to pass up. This past fall, Sterling Fichter ’13 and Garrett Holtz ’09 gathered with [...]
For the past two years, Dr. Doug Davenport has been encouraging the campus and community to dream about the future of Missouri Western, as the University created a new strategic plan. Dr. Davenport, interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, formed a steering committee that started its efforts with [...]
Five individuals became the newest members of the Missouri Western Athletics Hall of Fame during Hall of Fame Weekend festivities in October, presented by Rogers Pharmacy. Phillip Nelson, Dana Wertz, Dave Slifer, Steve Craig and Jenny Marr. Steve Craig Meritorious Service Mr. Craig's contributions to both the University [...]
First-year head coach Yuriy Litvinski kept his eyes toward the future in building the 2018 cross country squads. Flooded with underclassmen, Litvinski shuffled rotations and pushed the young Griffons to new heights. After opening the season by winning the both the men’s and women’s portions of the inaugural Griffon Open [...]
Griffon volleyball was not able to defend its 2017 MIAA Championship, finishing the season 15-17, but there were some outstanding individual performances. Six Griffons were named All-MIAA, and Missouri Western had players at each position ranked among the best in the MIAA. Junior Stephanie Doak was named second-team All-MIAA despite [...]
Despite returning just six upperclassmen from a record-breaking 2017 season, the soccer team kept pace with its new standards. Missouri Western finished the season 12-7 overall for the second most wins in program history. The Griffons qualified for postseason play for a fifth consecutive season, the only five extended seasons [...]
The 2018 Griffon football team saw a return to Missouri Western’s winning ways. The Griffons finished the regular season 6-5 and accepted an invitation to the Agent Barry Live United Bowl in Texarkana, Arkansas. It was the first postseason trip for the program since advancing to the NCAA Division II [...]
1970s Dr. David Belt ’73, retired biology instructor at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley, had a tropical plant named after him – Anthurium davidbeltianumcroat. Dr. Belt was volunteering for the Missouri Botanical Garden under Dr. Tom Croat when the new species was discovered in Peru in 2006. He taught at MCC [...]
