Bringing a broad array of educational and business experience from around the world, Matthew J. Wilson took the helm as the University’s president on July 1, 2019. Wilson arrived from the University of Akron, where he had served as president for two years and dean of its law school. Previously, [...]
Celebrating 50 years! Happy 50th anniversary to the Missouri Western campus and our four-year institution! It was the fall of 1969 when Missouri Western moved to its present location and began offering bachelor’s degrees. When the campus opened that fall, 2,536 students were enrolled and there were 167 employees. Three [...]
When Eugenia Wallace ’19 was at cheer camp in September of her freshman year at Missouri Western, the other cheerleaders found out her birthday was coming up. “How old will you be?” they asked. “20? 21?” Wallace said it was a little awkward when everyone found out she would be [...]
So how did seniors Merle Phillips and Rebecca Prest spend their summer vacations? Both were selected to participate in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, where they conducted research for 10 weeks at two top-notch research institutions. Phillips, a chemistry major, worked in a research lab at Harvard University in [...]
Training teachers in Egypt Dr. Adrienne Johnson spent two weeks in Cairo this past spring when she was selected for an English Language Specialist assignment for the U.S. Department of State. Just 80 people from the United States are selected in the program each year. Dr. Johnson, assistant professor [...]
Dr. William Eickhorst, professor emeritus of art, was studying at Parsons School of Design in New York in the early 1960s when a friend in his printmaking class gave him one of his pieces. That print became the first acquisition in what was to become a collection of more than [...]
On June 30, 2019, an era will end for Missouri Western when President Dr. Robert A. Vartabedian retires after 11 years at the University’s helm. Missouri Western was his first college presidency, culminating a stellar career of almost four decades in higher education. “Dr. Vartabedian led with the best interests [...]
A negative was turned into an amazing positive when the local St. Joseph Woodworkers Guild agreed to create a new ceremonial mace for Missouri Western this spring. The original mace, which was carried in and placed on the stage at Commencement ceremonies, was stolen in May 2018. When University personnel [...]
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 [...]
