Missouri Western State University journalism students brought home three second place finishes in the 2017 David J. Adams Apple Awards contest, announced during the national College Media Association Conference in New York City. “In a national competition that featured entries from schools like the University of Miami, Oregon State, Temple, BYU and Alabama, Missouri Western [...]
A Kansas City art gallery will display the work of a Missouri Western State University faculty member. “Floating World,” an exhibition of paintings by Kathy Liao, will be displayed at the Kiosk Gallery from March 17 through April 13. Liao is an assistant professor of art and director of painting and printmaking. Drawing inspirations from [...]
The Center for Entrepreneurship in the Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University will hold its second annual Entrepreneurship Week March 27-31, 2017. Sponsored by Don Tolly American Family Insurance Agency and Sumner, Carty, Hardy & Schwichtenberg, PC, Entrepreneurship Week is a series of workshops and events for local business professionals, aspiring entrepreneurs, [...]
The Missouri Western State University Arts Society is hosting its first “Meet the Prof” event at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 25, in the ceramics lab in Potter Hall. The opportunity to meet and learn from David Harris, associate professor of art and ceramics instructor, is free and open to the public, but seating is limited [...]
To help the region’s manufacturing sector meet its workforce needs, Missouri Western State University has added two new options to its two-year Associate of Applied Science in Manufacturing Engineering Technology program. Students can enroll in the precision machining and the instrumentation and automation programs beginning this fall. “These programs meet an identified need for mid-level [...]
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 [...]
Nesha Ruther, winner of the 2017 MoRe Prize from The Mochila Review. Award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni has selected poet Nesha Ruther as winner of The Mochila Review’s 2017 Undergraduate MoRe Prize. Ruther’s poem “A Love Poem to Ernst Winter” will be published in the 2017 issue of The Mochila Review, Missouri Western State [...]
Students and faculty in the technical communication program at Missouri Western State University will benefit from a new partnership between the University and Adobe Systems Inc. The partnership through Adobe’s University Outreach Program enhances campus access to the company’s industry-standard Adobe Technical Communication Suite. “This will help our students get jobs when they graduate,” said [...]
Vivian Dean The Art Entrepreneurship Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University will continue at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 8 with Dean Vivian’s talk titled “Figure Out the Numbers: Taxes for Artists.” The 90-minute seminar is free and open to the public. Vivian will review the details of what self-employed artists need 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 [...]
