Kay-Lynne Taylor is the new director of the Career Development Center.As director of the center, Taylor will oversee programs and services that will help students and alumni develop lifelong career planning and job search skills. Among other activities, the center provides career advising, manages on-campus employment opportunities and organizes job [...]
Dr. Michael Lane and Dr. Bob Willenbrink joined Missouri Western this fall. Dr. Lane is the dean of the Craig School of Business, and Dr. Willenbrink is the founding dean of the School of Fine Arts. Dr. Lane had been a professor of accounting at Emporia State University in [...]
This past fall, the student chapter of The Wildlife Society was named International Student Chapter of the Year out of 120 chapters, and the chapter’s advisor, Dr. Cary Chevalier, was named International Chapter Advisor of the Year for the first time in 2013. The student group also earned the international [...]
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of just over $1 million to Missouri Western and Davidson College in North Carolina for undergraduate synthetic biology research. The grant is the largest research grant in University history. Missouri Western is the lead institution for the grant proposal, which was written [...]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln had a lot in common. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, his friend William Taft never understood how to work with the media. And Lyndon Johnson was a great storyteller, although half of the stories he told were not true. These bits of information and more highlighted [...]
The Craig School of Business has benefited from a real-life example of a business concept taught in its classrooms: asset appreciation. The value of the largest individual gift in Missouri Western history has grown to 140 percent of the amount pledged. Steven L. Craig, founder and CEO of Craig Realty [...]
A film created by theatre and cinema students won “Best Comedy” at the inaugural Foster’s Film Festival in St. Joseph last fall, and a film by an alumnus won “Best Drama.” The award-winning comedy was “Unfortunate,” a “mockumentary” about a fortune cookie writer who gets dumped and starts writing “misfortunes.” [...]
To know Larry “Gator” Rivers ’73 is to know basketball. From the time he was an eighth-grader playing on a high school varsity team, to a college standout, to a 16-year career with the Harlem Globetrotters, to serving as a coach and a mentor; for Rivers, it’s always been about [...]
Six runways, 8,300 acres, 251 miles of roadway, 17 miles of Gulf shoreline, 1,500 buildings and structures, and about 23,000 people. That all became the responsibility of Capt. Keith Hoskins ’88 when he was named commander of Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida last March. The former Griffon football player [...]
