For the first time in more than 30 years, Missouri Western’s spring commencement ceremony was held in Spratt Memorial Stadium. As the University approaches its centennial year, 2015, take a look back at significant commencement events throughout our history. The first commencement for the St. Joseph Junior College was held [...]
Four community members have agreed to serve as chairs of the comprehensive capital campaign that will be part of Missouri Western’s centennial in 2015: R. Dan and Dale Boulware and Dr. Mark and Mary Margaret Laney. “As we prepare to celebrate 100 years of transforming lives and carry that legacy [...]
Last fall, the annual International Fair at Missouri Western drew more than 400 participants and a Kuwaiti student’s presentation was standing-room-only. The University is embracing its internationalization, and Amy Kotwani, International Student Services director, couldn’t be more pleased. Dr. Krikor Partamian plays in the championship match of the inaugural [...]
If you go online and Google “bacterial computing,” four out of the first five entries that appear are papers that have been published by Missouri Western professors and students. Since 2006, Dr. Todd Eckdahl, Dr. Jeff Poet and eight teams totaling 19 mathematics and 35 biology Missouri Western undergraduate students [...]
Students have a new place to gather on campus, thanks to the generosity of a local family. This spring, the University dedicated the Kelley Commons, a beautiful outdoor patio right outside the Blum Union. It is named for the Kelley family, which includes the parents, Jean Kelley and the late [...]
“I wanted their memories to live on.” Those seven words sum up the feelings of Alonzo Weston and his longtime dream that was fulfilled with the help of a Missouri Western professor, a graduate student and an alumna. Last summer, Weston, a reporter for the St. Joseph News-Press, wrote a [...]
“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) Here is a question for alumni from the 1970s, ’80s or ’90s: What campus organization traveled all over the United States and made a name for Missouri Western because [...]
"This captures the spirit of him as a man.” Those were the words of Walter Cronkite’s daughter Kathy Cronkite when she toured the new Walter Cronkite Memorial in the Spratt Hall atrium last fall. The memorial was dedicated and officially opened on Nov. 4, 2013, the 97th anniversary of Walter [...]
“I can’t describe what it is like to actually see a human heart beating.” That was just one of many valuable experiences nursing student Michael Balak ’13 said he had this past summer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. when he participated in a 10-week experience there. Two [...]
