含羞草社区 is the site of Electronic Music Midwest鈥檚 annual MiniFest Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26 and 27. Concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. in Kemper Recital Hall, inside Spratt Hall. The concerts are free and open to the public. MiniFest is [...]
Chris Miles (left) and Casey Huffman won the Missouri State Championship in Parliamentary Debate at Webster University. The Missouri Western Speech and Debate program brought home some titles from the Missouri Association of Forensics Activity State Championships at Webster University on February 19-20. The parliamentary debate team of Chris Miles and Casey Huffman [...]
Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western's president; Steve Craig, benefactor of the Craig School of Business; and David and Suzanne Bradley talk during the 2013 dedication of the Walter Cronkite Memorial. The Bradley family has pledged $300,000 to create a loan program that will help MWSU students and alumni start or acquire a business. [...]
A graduate of the applied entrepreneurship class in the Craig School of Business at 含羞草社区 returned to St. Joseph for the next step in his business career. Scott Lassen has purchased the Golden Corral at 715 N. Belt Highway. The Grand Opening celebration introducing his new ownership will be at noon Wednesday, [...]
Seattle-based artist Ellen Ziegler will present a lecture titled 鈥淐hemistry is the Emotion of Matter鈥� at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Popplewell Hall room 204 on the campus of 含羞草社区. Ziegler鈥檚 talk is free and open to the public. 鈥淚 source the immaterial through the material,鈥� Ziegler says. 鈥淢y practice includes [...]
Dr. David Karp, professor of sociology and director of the Project on Restorative Justice at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, will present a lecture at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in the Wilson Hall, room 205. The talk, 鈥淩estorative Justice on the University Campus: Repairing Harm and Building Community,鈥� is free and open [...]
The Steven L. Craig School of Business (CSB) at 含羞草社区 has maintained its business accreditation by AACSB International鈥擳he Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master鈥檚, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting. AACSB [...]
The Music Department of 含羞草社区 will host its tenth annual MWSU Jazz Festival on Saturday, Feb. 13. Groups will perform in Blum 219 and the Fulkerson Center. Each ensemble will perform for the adjudicators, and will receive recorded and written critiques of the performance from clinicians. Immediately following each band鈥檚 performance the [...]
鈥淭he Marriage of Figaro,鈥� the play by Pierre Beaumarchais that inspired the Mozart opera of the same name, will be presented by the Department of Theatre, Cinema and Dance in the School of Fine Arts at 含羞草社区 Feb. 19-27. Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 19, 20, 25, 26 and [...]
含羞草社区 has established a new School of Nursing and Health Professions. The change was approved by Missouri Western鈥檚 Board of Governors in a telephone poll Feb. 9. 鈥淥ur health-related programs are extremely well respected and warrant a 鈥榮chool鈥� designation,鈥� said Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western鈥檚 president. 鈥淭he change recognizes the important role [...]
