A student puts the finishing touches on his school’s Concrete Chiaroscuro entry in the first Visual Arts Day in 2012. An estimated 850 students from about 40 high schools in Missouri and Kansas will come to Missouri Western State University for the second annual Visual Arts Day on Thursday, Oct. 10 in Potter [...]
“Accent” is a 6-by-5 foot painting that is part of “Threshold,” an exhibition of work by adjunct art instructor Misha Kligman. The Potter Gallery at Missouri Western State University will exhibit “Threshold,” large-scale paintings by Kansas City-based artist Misha Kligman, from Oct. 10 to Nov. 7. The gallery is located inside Potter Hall [...]
The Department of Theatre and Cinema in the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University presents William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Oct. 3-13 in the Potter Hall Theater. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12 and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 and Oct. [...]
“Griffon Game Changers” is the theme of Missouri Western State University’s 2013 Homecoming celebration, Oct. 6-12. For more information or to register for alumni events, call 816-271-5652. Details about student events are available at missouriwestern.edu/homecoming. A highlight of homecoming every year is the parade in downtown St. Joseph. The parade is scheduled to begin at [...]
The Department of Theatre and Cinema in the School of Fine Arts at Missouri Western State University will hold open auditions for Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on Monday, Oct. 7, and for Tabula Rasa, a student directing showcase, on Wednesday, Oct. 9. Actors can learn more and sign up for time slots [...]
Potter Hall will receive nearly $800,000 in renovations and additions under a plan to spend budget reserves approved by the Board of Governors. Wilson Hall and the Looney Complex will also receive improvements. The Board of Governors at Missouri Western State University has approved approximately $1.6 million in improvements to Potter Hall, Wilson [...]
Judge Alok Ahuja will preside over a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District convening at Missouri Western Oct. 4. For the sixteenth consecutive year, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District will convene court at Missouri Western State University. The Court will sit at Missouri Western on Friday, October [...]
Dr. Mara Schiff, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University, will give a talk titled “Race, Rights and Restorative Justice” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24 in the Blum Student Union, Hoff Conference Rooms 218-219 at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Schiff’s talk is free and open to the public. It [...]
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of just over $1 million to Missouri Western State University and Davidson College in North Carolina for undergraduate synthetic biology research. The grant is the largest research grant in Missouri Western’s history. “One thing that really sets Missouri Western apart is the opportunity that we provide undergraduate [...]
Dr. Melody Smith, former superintendent of the St. Joseph School District, has been hired as a program development liaison for the Western Institute at Missouri Western State University. In this part-time position, Dr. Smith will share responsibility for building a number of interlocking initiatives designed to help adults complete baccalaureate degrees that they may have [...]
