Missouri Western State University will host a celebration of the Chinese New Year at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11 in the Hoff Conference Room, Blum Student Union room 218. The celebration is free and open to the public. The celebration will include food, games and culture. Visitors will discover Chinese legends through music and poetry [...]
André Nerman Poems from one of the most popular French poets and screenwriters of the 20th century will be the focus of a two-actor dramatized reading at Missouri Western State University. “Rappelle-toi Prévert,” the performance in French conceived and produced by André Nerman, pays homage to the life and works of Jacques Prévert. [...]
Missouri Western State University will hold its 16th annual Reading of Challenged and Banned Books at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2 in the Enright Community Rooms, Spratt Hall 214-216. Missouri Western students and faculty and members of the St. Joseph community will hold a reading of books that have been either banned or challenged in [...]
Dr. Susie Hennessy, professor of French and foreign language coordinator at Missouri Western State University, was decorated as a Chevalier (knight) of the French “Ordre des Palmes Académiques,” or Order of Academic Palms, during a ceremony at the university. Dr. Hennessy was presented with the order’s insignia, a medallion on a ribbon, by [...]
The Griffon News, the student newspaper of Missouri Western State University, earned 22 awards and its editor-in-chief was named the top college journalist in the state at the Missouri College Media Association convention, which was hosted by Missouri Western on April 14. David Hon, a junior convergent media major from Platte City and president of [...]
Mary Stone Dockery, a 2009 graduate of Missouri Western State University, will read from her recently published book of poetry, “Mythology of Touch” at 4 p.m. Friday, April 13 in the Blum Union first floor lounge. The poetry reading is free and open to the public. “My first creative writing class happened at Missouri Western, [...]
