The Institute for Industrial and Applied Life Sciences, a public/private cooperative effort to enhance workforce and economic development in the Midwest region, has renamed itself Innovation Stockyard. Innovation Stockyard specializes in animal health, but can provide support services for any idea. The team can help test and develop the idea [...]
A new student group opened a food pantry on campus for students this month. Rotaract, a club for adults ages 18-30 that meets to exchange ideas, plan activities and projects, and socialize, will hold a ribbon cutting later this month for the pantry. The group began planning activities in fall [...]
Teddi Deka, professor of psychology and honors program director at Missouri Western State University, is Missouri Western’s recipient of the 2015 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. She has taught at Missouri Western for 18 years. Regan Dodd, assistant professor of health, physical education and recreation, was appointed Missouri Western’s [...]
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 [...]
