Last fall, a dinner was held to honor the past Board of Trustees, Regents and Governors with emeriti status. As we start to plan our centennial celebration in 2015, we wanted to look back on the history of our boards. On Jan. 19, 1965, when voters in 11 school [...]
Women’s and men’s basketball kicked off their seasons with a tip-off night to introduce players and coaches in October for 1,200 fans. The women opened their season with 9-2 record under new head coach Rob Edmsson. Rob came off of an NAIA National Championship at Oklahoma State University last [...]
The 2011-12 theatre season, “A Season of Classics,” is being called a success, as more than 7,700 people attended the four productions. “We’re very grateful that the campus and the St. Joseph community have been so supportive,” said Tee Quillin, assistant professor of theatre and cinema. “We knew that a [...]
Hillary Turner said when her family gave up dairy products, many of their digestive problems went away. And when they cut out grains, many more of their issues disappeared. That naturally led her, her parents, and four siblings to the paleo diet, which they have been faithfully following for the [...]
“Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the soul.” That, according to student Rosalind Blackwell, is why she says her participation in Missouri Western’s Lingering Melodies program is so rewarding. For more than a decade, students have been bringing peace and solace to terminally ill patients through their music. [...]
Missouri Western recently completed its first year of an agreement with Heartland Health in St. Joseph and the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha that benefits students in Missouri Western’s medical technology degree program. One student completed the program this past spring, and a second will begin this summer. [...]
Dr. Jane Frick’s mission throughout her 40-year career at Missouri Western has been to improve writing skills, and as an English professor and director of the Prairie Lands Writing Project, her impact and influence have been felt by hundreds of students and teachers. “I really, really like teaching,” she says, [...]
The legendary oil and gas entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens will be the speaker at the Convocation on Critical Issues at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 4 in the M.O. Looney Complex arena. His speech is titled “Leadership and Getting Things Done: Reflections on a Lifetime of Comebacks and America’s Energy [...]
Two different groups of students traveled to Costa Rica in May, and both came home with a wealth of experience and great memories. Ten nursing students who had completed either their first or second semester in the program spent five days working in temporary clinics and pharmacies in Costa Rica’s [...]
