Feb. 11--The music program in the Missouri Western State University School of Fine Arts will host the 19th Annual Jazz Festival starting at 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 12. The festival has grown from four bands attending in its first year, 2007, to this year’s 18 school groups performing in Blum 219 and the Fulkerson Center. [...]
Feb. 10, 2026--Missouri Western State University named 343 students to the President’s Honor Roll for the fall semester of 2025. Students who carried 12 or more hours of graded credit and earned a grade point average of 4.0 qualify for the honor. They are listed below by hometown. Arizona Chandler: Rachel Cain Oro Valley: Rachel [...]
Feb. 10, 2026--Missouri Western State University named 379 students to the Dean’s Honor Roll for the 2025 fall semester. Students who carried 12 or more hours of graded credit and earned a grade point average of 3.5 qualify for the honor. They are listed below by hometown. Alabama Phenix City: Bryce Dawson Arizona Gilbert: Sienna [...]
Jan. 16, 2026--The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University will present a public showing of “Stars of the Pharaohs” at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23. Travel to ancient Egypt to see how science was used to tell time, make a workable calendar and align huge buildings. You’ll learn about the connection the ancient Egyptians [...]
Dec. 11, 2025--Missouri Western State University will celebrate the achievements of 204 graduates during the Winter Commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13 in the MWSU Fieldhouse in the M.O. Looney Complex. The public is invited. Doors open to guests at 10:15 a.m. MoWest will confer 172 undergraduate degrees, 51 of them with honors, [...]
Dec. 10, 2025--The Bushman Planetarium at Missouri Western State University will present public showings of "Mystery of the Christmas Star" in December. Friday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21 at 3 p.m. “Mystery of the Christmas Star” Journey back over 2,000 years to Bethlehem to discover a [...]
Nov. 21, 2025--Missouri Western State University’s Cinematic Arts Program presents a clinical talk by Jeremiah Lafleur at 2:30 p.m Thursday, Dec. 4 in the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Recital Hall located in Leah Spratt Hall room 101. Lafleur is the assistant director of marketing and recruitment for community and workforce development at Southern Utah University, [...]
Nov. 14, 2025--Missouri Western State University’s Cinematic Arts Program presents a clinical talk by Mark David Christenson at 2:30 p.m Thursday, Nov. 20 in the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Recital Hall located in Leah Spratt Hall room 101. Christenson is an actor, director, podcaster and live improv performer in Los Angeles with appearances on stage [...]
Nov. 12, 2025--The jazz program of the Missouri Western State University School of Fine Arts will present its annual fall jazz concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 18 in the Potter Theater. The concert will feature a performance by the MoWest Jazz Ensemble. The theme of the concert is A Little of This and a [...]
Nov. 12, 2025--Missouri Western State University’s School of Fine Arts will host its Fall 2025 Honor Choir Concert, at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the Fulkerson Center. More than 300 middle and high school singers from across northwest Missouri and the greater Kansas City region will join voices for the concert featuring two ensembles: [...]
