April 3, 2025--Dr. Evan Elizabeth Hart, associate professor of history, is Missouri Western State University’s recipient of the Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. The Governor’s Award is sponsored by the Missouri Council on Public Higher Education and will be presented this week in Jefferson City. Dr. Hart has been at Missouri Western since [...]
April 18, 2022--Missouri Western State University will host a discussion panel on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine due to the Russian invasion at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. The event will [...]
It’s tough to write a column in advance when you’re dealing with a subject described as a “moving target.” I’m talking, of course, about COVID-19 and its attendant problems. So many things we don’t know, or situations change suddenly: Is there a vaccine for this virus? Should we wear masks? When will we feel comfortable [...]
University of North Texas portrait of Ronald Schumann, Photographed on 23, March 2017 in Denton, Texas. (Adriana Salazar/UNT Photo) Jan. 28, 2020—Dr. Ronald Schumann of North Texas State University will present two lectures in Missouri Western State University’s Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series Feb. 3 and 4. Both presentations are free and [...]
Dr. Leslie Waters Oct. 3, 2019—Dr. Leslie Waters, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, will present a talk titled “Borderlands and Ethnic Cleansing in World War II Eastern Europe” at noon Friday, Oct. 11 in Popplewell Hall, room 104 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. [...]
Dr. James Okapal, chair of the Department of Philosophy & Religion and the Department of History & Geography, was recently interviewed on the philosophy and pop culture podcast "I Think Therefore I Fan." On the Sept. 18 episode, "Fantastic Friends and Where to Find Them," Dr. Okapal talks with hosts Dr. Rachel Robison-Greene and Dr. [...]
By Ken Newton, News-Press NOW|Aug 15, 2019 For a 17-year-old devoted to music, a week or two from heading to college, the allure proved too great to ignore. Less than 100 miles from his doorstep, the royalty of rock would convene. Ditching his summer job early, the teenager answered this call, a decision about which [...]
March 1, 2019—Missouri Western State University will honor March as Women’s History Month with a series of events that are free and open to the public. The theme of Women’s History Month 2019 is “What Is and Is Not Feminist?” Unless otherwise noted, all events will be at 6 p.m. in the Hoff Conference Room, [...]
Dr. Jonathan Leib A political geographer from Virginia will present a talk titled “Boasts of the Confederacy? Race, Memory and the Politics of Monument Landscapes in Southeast Virginia” at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27 in Agenstein Hall, room 224 on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The event is free and open [...]
Missouri Western State University will host two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives to celebrate Constitution Day 2018 on Monday, Sept. 17. Dan Maffei, a Democrat from New York, and Steven Kuykendall, a Republican from California, will meet with students and give two public presentations as part of the Congress to Campus program [...]
