Missouri Western State University graphic design students visited two graphic design firms, Willoughby Design and Design Ranch, on their annual Kansas City Studio Tour on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Students from Teresa Harris’s Graphic Design IV and Final Portfolio were given a guided tour of the facilities, an overall presentation of the studio’s [...]
Four Missouri Western State University business students competed at the Collegiate FBLA State Leadership Conference in Columbia, Missouri earlier this month, earning a total of 10 top-5 finishes to advance to the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida in June. Students who placed include: Andrew Fox 1st place – Marketing, Sales, & Communication Case [...]
Artemii Udovenko, a senior majoring in Psychology, was awarded one of eight H. Y. Benedict Fellowships from the Alpha Chi National Honors Society, for his Honors Thesis, entitled, “Prejudice and Comprehensibility of Accented Speech in Hiring Decisions.” The scholarship provides $3000 toward the first year of graduate study. Artemii was recently accepted to [...]
On Saturday, April 6, 2024, undergraduate students Jordon Anderson (Nursing), Juniper Brown (Political Science), Mercedes Mareske (Digital Animation), and Tia Vernon (Education) won the Trisha Yarbrough Collaborative Research Competition and $5000 award, after presenting their research at the Alpha Chi National Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. To compete, students from diverse majors collaborate on [...]
Missouri Western State University was recognized by the Missouri Partners in Prevention consortium with three awards at the Meeting of the Minds Conference on April 13-15 in Kansas City. Click here to read the full story.
Two Missouri Western State University nursing students were awarded DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nursing Students for the spring 2022 semester. Hai Le, third semester nursing student from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and Shayla Bocchine, fourth semester nursing student from Agency, Missouri, were honored as part of the DAISY Foundation's programs to recognize compassionate and [...]
For the sixth time in ten years, MWSU's Alpha Theta Beta chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, has been awarded a Best Chapter Award for 2020-2021. The award recognizes local chapters that are particularly active in their institutions and communities and embodies the society’s mission to stimulate scholarship [...]
Dr. Tilo Roy has been selected as the next editor-in-chief of the prestigious newsletter, “The Vasculum”, published biannually by the international scientific society, the Society of Herbarium Curators. Dr. Roy was selected amidst a host of candidates from all across the globe for this voluntary position. She will shadow the current EIC for [...]
Dr. Cary D. Chevalier has been recognized by The Wildlife Society (TWS), the international professional society for wildlife science, management, and conservation, as the International Student Chapter Advisor of the Year for 2021. This is a very prestigious award and an international recognition. There are approximately 140 student chapters of TWS in the [...]
Dr. James Carviou, assistant professor of journalism, is a recipient of the 2021 College Media Association Distinguished Adviser Award for four-year college newspapers. He serves as a college media adviser for MWSU's campus annual, The Griffon. Dr. Carviou is published widely in scholarly journals and books. His research interrogates media narratives and audience [...]
