Kudos to Josh Pohl, convergent journalism major and editor-in-chief of the Griffon News, for scoring an Honorable Mention in the Apple awards at the National College Media Association Convention in New York City. The Griffon News competed against other four-year universities with fewer than 5,000 undergraduates.
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 [...]
Arianne Boma, convergent journalism major and Griffon yearbook editor-in-chief, won the national second-place Apple award for yearbook cover design at the National College Media Association Convention in New York City. The national winning design will don the cover of the 2022 (96th volume) of The Griffon yearbook.
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. Csengele Barta, associate professor of biology, was awarded the Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) Award of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), for the fourth consecutive year in 2022. The prestigious award recognizes excellence in plant science scholarship and undergraduate student research mentorship of faculty at primarily undergraduate serving institutions. The award [...]
Missouri Western students participated in the Sleep in Heavenly Peace Bunk Bed build event at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. This event helps ensure no child will sleep on the floor in the local communities. Sixteen beds were brought back to St. Joseph to be distributed by Wyatt Park Christian Church to children [...]
Dr. Mark Mills, Dr. Aracely Newton, Dr. Cary Chevalier, and students from the MWSU Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society built a new footbridge over a drainage on the Otoe Creek Nature Trail.
Congratulations to Dr. Julie Jedlicka and MWSU honors graduate Laney (Hayward) Nute who co-authored a peer-reviewed publication with others in PeerJ Life and Environment. The paper analyzed how seasons, guilds, and years affect avian foraging in Mexican coffee farms. Laney is now a graduate student at the University of Mississippi researching endangered species [...]
On Friday, Nov. 5, Dr. Ollie Bogdon, department of education, nine students from education, and two students from the department of biology attended the Live STEAM 2021 Event at Science City in Union Station. This event brought together 200 fourth and fifth-grade Girl Scouts for an evening focused on engaging girls in STEM [...]
Biology undergraduate student, Alyka Zahnd, and her research mentor, Dr. Csengele Barta, associate professor in the department of biology have been recognized and recently featured in the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Newsletter, reaching an international audience. Alyka and Dr. Barta’s research proposal, “Offense and Defense strategies in plants’ chemical warfare for [...]
