Missouri Western State University’s Department of Biology is participating in the sixth annual Herp-o-rama, an event celebrating the diverse and unique lives of Missouri’s amphibians and reptiles, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 10, at the Remington Nature Center, located at 1502 MacArthur Drive in St. Joseph. Expect to see both native [...]
Missouri Western State University honored ten employees who are retiring and ten award winners at its annual Faculty and Staff Awards and Retirement Reception on May 2. Award recipients were: Missouri Western Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence Pam Clary, assistant professor of social work and director of the BSW program Shauna Hiley, professor of chemistry [...]
Dr. Julie Jedlicka, assistant professor of biology at Missouri Western State University, and faculty colleagues at Humboldt State University in California have won a $250,000 National Science Foundation grant to study the roles of birds, insects and climate change in the ecology of coffee production in Kenya. The International Research Experiences for Students grant will [...]
Remington and Agenstein Halls at Missouri Western State University will host two science fairs for high school students on Friday, March 10. Winners of the 39th annual Missouri Junior Academy of Science Regional Fair and the 44th annual Mid-America Regional Science and Engineering Fair will advance to the state level. Both events are open to [...]
Dr. Zachary Taylor Dr. Zachary Taylor from the environmental sciences program at Berry College in Georgia is the next speaker in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Taylor’s talk, “Climate Change and Prehistoric Agricultural Decline in Costa Rica,” is at noon Friday, March 3 in Agenstein [...]
Missouri Western State University and the Innovation Stockyard are hosting a regional science and technology employment panel and networking event from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 2 at the Kit Bond Science and Technology Incubator on the Missouri Western campus. The event is open to the public, but participants are asked to preregister online [...]
For the second time in three years, an undergraduate synthetic biology research project at Missouri Western State University and Davidson College in North Carolina has received a grant of more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation. It is the largest research grant in Missouri Western’s history. President Vartabedian announces a $1.1 million [...]
The fifth annual Herp-O-Rama will be on Saturday, June 11, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a new location – the Remington Nature Center on the banks of the Missouri River. This event is designed to educate people about the wonderful world of amphibians and reptiles and is geared towards all ages. There will be [...]
Gardeners of all varieties are invited to prepare for the growing season with the sixth annual plant sale sponsored by the Northwest Missouri Master Gardeners and Missouri Western State University’s Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society April 29 and 30. This year, the Missouri Western Clay Guild will also participate, selling pots and planters. The sale features [...]
The Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society at Missouri Western State University will sponsor a Science and Society symposium on genetically modified organisms (GMO) at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 in the East Hills Library Theater Room, 502 N. Woodbine Avenue. The event is free and open to the public. “Manipulated: The Science and Politics of Genetically [...]
