Missouri Western will host up to 1,000 students and faculty members for the annual American Chemical Society Midwest regional meeting for the Kansas City section in October. Dr. Mike Ducey, professor of chemistry and department chair, noted that 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the meeting, and the Kansas City [...]
Missouri Western is offering its first accelerated bachelor’s to master’s degree program this fall in the Department of Chemistry. The program will provide students the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry/Natural Science/Chemical Business and a Master of Applied Science in Chemistry in five years instead of six. [...]
According to Dr. Mark Laney, president and CEO of Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph, population health is the new direction in healthcare today, and this fall, Missouri Western began offering the first bachelor’s degree in population health management in the country. In early 2015, Mosaic Life Care pledged $1.5 [...]
Tom Ridge, former governor of Pennsylvania and the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will be the featured speaker at the 22nd R. Dan Boulware Convocation on Critical Issues at 10 a.m. Sept. 15. The Convocation in the Looney Complex is free and open to the public. “There are few issues [...]
“We get to make a difference in the community, in families and in people’s lives.” That, Annette Weeks says, is why she enjoys her position as director of the Craig School of Business’s Center for Entrepreneurship at Missouri Western. Since the center opened last fall, Weeks has assisted 90 entrepreneurs [...]
Lauren K. Scanlon, of Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina, passed away June 26, 2015 at Crystal Coast Hospice House. Lauren is survived by her husband, James, who was Missouri Western’s president from 2001-2008; son, Blake, and daughter-in-law, Ellen Ault Scanlon, of San Francisco; and grandson William Lucas Scanlon. In an [...]
1980s Trish Cryer Loeblein ’81 and Walt Loeblein ’83 retired as high school teachers. They had also been supporting students and staff with technology. They noted that the “terrific teachers in the chemistry department inspired us to be teachers.” The couple resides in Colorado. Dirck Clark ’85, formerly chief strategy [...]
The Missouri Western Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2015 will be inducted and recognized on Hall of Fame Weekend Oct. 9 and 10. This year’s honorees include Amy Beverly ’06, who played softball from 2003-06; Nicole Lindsey Collier ’03, who played basketball 2001-03; and Eric “E-Bo” Walker, who played [...]
Twenty-six spring sport student athletes were named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll, with three picking up Scholar Athlete Awards: Cody Childs, baseball; Madison Romjue, golf; and Morgan Rathmann, softball. The St. Joseph Convention and Visitors Bureau estimated the economic impact of the March 2015 MWSU/Apple Market Softball Classic at $250,740. An estimated [...]
