Western Playhouse, a summer theatre company at Missouri Western State University, presents the critically acclaimed epic musical “Miss Saigon” July 4-13 in the Potter Hall Theater. “I wasn’t that familiar with ‘Miss Saigon’ when we began talking about producing it this summer, but when I heard the soundtrack, I immediately fell in love with it,” [...]
Two teams of computer science students at Missouri Western State University were selected to present their web application projects at a national collegiate conference in April. They were two of only nine teams selected from colleges and universities across the country, and the Missouri Western students brought home first and second place. […]
A reception and awards ceremony for Missouri Western State University’s literary magazines, “Canvas” and “The Mochila Review,” will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Junior College Room of the Blum Student Union. The event is free and open to the public. Awards will be presented to students who submitted the top [...]
Deb Ballin (second from right), past president of the Missouri Environmental Education Association, presented MEEA’s 2012 Community-Based Environmental Education Service Award to (left to right) Debbi Wright, Kit Bond Incubator lab manager; Gwen Funk, St. Joseph School District GATE teacher; and Kendra Lau, SJSD GATE coordinator. A partnership between the Kit Bond Science [...]
The Missouri Western State University department of art, in conjunction with the Missouri Western Library, will host a photography display, “Our Lives Through Books: An Exhibition of Photographs,” created by students. The exhibit is on the main floor of the library in the Hearnes Center on campus. […]
Missouri Western State University music major Donovan Jones will spend his summer performing professional opera with Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, Ark. […]
The Missouri Western State University chapter of Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society and the Northwest Missouri Master Gardeners will host their third annual plant sale from 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Friday, April 26 and 9 a.m.–2 p.m. (or until sold out) Saturday, April 27 in Remington Hall at the north entrance. […]
Missouri Western State University has announced the winners of its first 48 Hour Film Project. The competition was held from Friday, March 22 through. Sunday, March 24. Teams had 48 hours to write, shoot and edit the film, after being given a genre, a prop, a line of dialogue and a character. There were 12 [...]
About 15 years ago, Missouri Western State University’s president, Dr. Robert Vartabedian, and his wife, Laurel, stopped at a visitors center in Trinidad, Colo., where a display caught their attention. It told the story of a 1913-14 immigrant coal miners’ strike in the area that culminated in what has become known as the Ludlow Massacre. [...]
A short film written and directed by students at Missouri Western State University was selected for screening at the Kansas City Film Festival in the Heartland Narrative Shorts Category. It was screened on April 12 and 13 at the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet theatre in Kansas City, Mo. […]
