Feb. 23, 2024--Missouri Western will host the 16th annual Conference on Applied Learning in Higher Education (CAHLE) on March 7-8, 2024. The Griffon Office of Applied Learning (GOAL) holds this national conference to highlight the current trends in applied learning, activities in which students use course content, models, theories and skills in real-world or hands-on [...]
Feb. 23, 2024--The Center for Academic Support is holding a free MoGEA Preparation Workshop for Missouri Western students on March 8 from noon to 4 p.m. in Murphy Hall room 109. The Missouri General Education Assessment (MoGEA) is required for all students with an ACT composite score of 19 and below who are pursuing admittance [...]
Feb. 23, 2024--Missouri Western’s Pop Culture Club is hosting two talks on campus in March. Both events are free and open to the public. Professor of Philosophy Dr. Jim Okapal will present “Enhancement and Alienation in 'Flowers for Algernon’” on March 1 at noon in Popplewell 207. Associate Professor of Cinema Toby Lawrence will present [...]
Feb. 23, 2024--Dr. Tilottama Roy, associate professor of biology at Missouri Western, has joined the Applications in Plant Sciences (APPS) editorial board. The APPS is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Botanical Society of America. As a recruiting editor, Dr. Roy will identify and recruit potential authors for individual submissions, with a particular focus on [...]
Feb. 15, 2024--The Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Missouri Western will host L.B. Galbearth Jr. at 5 p.m. on Feb. 21 in the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Recital Hall in Leah Spratt Hall, room 101. Galbearth received his bachelor’s degree in political science from Missouri Western in 1994 and holds a graduate certificate in [...]
Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, Missouri Western State University president, sent the following email to Missouri Western students and employees on Feb. 11, 2024: Greetings, For the second year in a row and third time in five years, our summer guests, the Kansas City Chiefs, are Super Bowl champions! What a thrill to watch the hard work [...]
Feb. 6, 2024--John Vanderpool, director of housing and residence life at Missouri Western State University, is one of five education professionals in the nation to receive a 2024 Campus Safety and Violence Prevention Award from NASPA, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. This award comes as a result of Vanderpool’s fast reaction to a [...]
Feb. 5, 2024--The Potter Art Gallery at Missouri Western State University will host Gaze - Paintings by Benjamin Parks, a solo exhibition of his large-scale portrait paintings intended to represent unmasked emotion and connection. The opening reception will be at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8 inside the gallery. It is open to the public [...]
Guest clinician and artist Trent Austin Feb. 5, 2024--The Missouri Western School of Fine Arts will host the 17th annual Jazz Festival, featuring Trent Austin on trumpet, on Thursday, Feb. 8 from 8 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. The festival is open to the public and admission is free. Nineteen school groups will perform [...]
Dr. Lenny Klaver, president, NCMC; Pete Gray, CEO, Gray Manufacturing; Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, president, Missouri Western; and Stet Schanze, president, Gray Manufacturing. Feb. 1, 2024--The central shop area in the Convergent Technology Alliance Center (CTAC) that is currently under construction on the campus of Missouri Western State University will bear the name of [...]
