Missouri Western's Mei Zhang (left) and Dr. Jeanne Daffron '74 (second from right) meet with a delegation from Jiaxing University on campus. A delegation of four administrators from Jiaxing University in China visited campus last spring to discuss ways to strengthen and expand the exchange partnership between the [...]
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 [...]
Dear Friends, What an exciting time at Missouri Western. Our marketing slogan touts that everything is possible at Missouri Western, and that rings truer than ever as we kicked off our Centennial in January 2015. We started our Centennial year in style that month, starting first with the announcement of [...]
Megan Wood: Connecting with classrooms across the globe Student Megan Wood couldn’t afford to travel abroad to learn about education systems in other countries, so she did the next best thing – she brought the world to her. In the past year, the elementary education major from Lebanon, Mo., has [...]
