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 [...]
Missouri American Water Company has lifted a precautionary boil water advisory that included Missouri Western State University. The advisory was activated as a precaution after a water main break caused water system pressures to drop. It is no longer necessary to boil water before drinking or cooking.
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 [...]
International Student Services and the International Student Council at Missouri Western State University will sponsor a Bubble Tea Bar from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 8 in the Blum Student Union Lobby. Bubble, or boba, tea is a tea-based drink mixed with fruit flavor or milk containing small “pearls” of sweetened tapioca. The [...]
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 [...]
Missouri Western State University announced the names of students who completed the degree requirements during the summer and fall semesters of 2016. A total of 440 degrees were conferred. Graduates include: Agency, Missouri Kenneth R. Holdsworth, Bachelor of Science in Physical Education; Johnathan Douglas Ottinger, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Technology; Allison Mae Reed, Bachelor [...]
Graduate programs were created at Missouri Western State University in 2007. An editorial in the St. Joseph News-Press on March 7 recognizes this milestone: This year marks the 10th anniversary of the first graduate programs at Missouri Western, and that step seems significant in the life of the university, the city and the region. The [...]
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 [...]
The Board of Governors at Missouri Western State University approved a project to renovate an entryway to Popplewell Hall. The project is funded by Building Affordability, the 2015 legislation also known as House Bill 19 that appropriated $4.8 million to Missouri Western for capital improvements. “HB19 provided state funds for much-needed improvements on our campus,” [...]
