A student puts the finishing touches on his school鈥檚 Concrete Chiaroscuro entry in the first Visual Arts Day in 2012. An estimated 850 students from about 40 high schools in Missouri and Kansas will come to 含羞草社区 for the second annual Visual Arts Day on Thursday, Oct. 10 in Potter [...]
鈥淎ccent鈥� is a 6-by-5 foot painting that is part of 鈥淭hreshold,鈥� an exhibition of work by adjunct art instructor Misha Kligman. The Potter Gallery at 含羞草社区 will exhibit 鈥淭hreshold,鈥� large-scale paintings by Kansas City-based artist Misha Kligman, from Oct. 10 to Nov. 7. The gallery is located inside Potter Hall [...]
The Department of Theatre and Cinema in the School of Fine Arts at 含羞草社区 presents William Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥� Oct. 3-13 in the Potter Hall Theater. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 3-5 and Oct. 10-12 and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6 and Oct. [...]
鈥淕riffon Game Changers鈥� is the theme of 含羞草社区鈥檚 2013 Homecoming celebration, Oct. 6-12. For more information or to register for alumni events, call 816-271-5652. Details about student events are available at missouriwestern.edu/homecoming. A highlight of homecoming every year is the parade in downtown St. Joseph. The parade is scheduled to begin at [...]
The Department of Theatre and Cinema in the School of Fine Arts at 含羞草社区 will hold open auditions for Steve Martin鈥檚 鈥淧icasso at the Lapin Agile鈥� on Monday, Oct. 7, and for Tabula Rasa, a student directing showcase, on Wednesday, Oct. 9. Actors can learn more and sign up for time slots [...]
Potter Hall will receive nearly $800,000 in renovations and additions under a plan to spend budget reserves approved by the Board of Governors. Wilson Hall and the Looney Complex will also receive improvements. The Board of Governors at 含羞草社区 has approved approximately $1.6 million in improvements to Potter Hall, Wilson [...]
Judge Alok Ahuja will preside over a three-judge panel of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District convening at Missouri Western Oct. 4. For the sixteenth consecutive year, the Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District will convene court at 含羞草社区. The Court will sit at Missouri Western on Friday, October [...]
Dr. Mara Schiff, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Florida Atlantic University, will give a talk titled 鈥淩ace, Rights and Restorative Justice鈥� at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 24 in the Blum Student Union, Hoff Conference Rooms 218-219 at 含羞草社区. Dr. Schiff鈥檚 talk is free and open to the public. It [...]
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of just over $1 million to 含羞草社区 and Davidson College in North Carolina for undergraduate synthetic biology research. The grant is the largest research grant in Missouri Western鈥檚 history. 鈥淥ne thing that really sets Missouri Western apart is the opportunity that we provide undergraduate [...]
Dr. Melody Smith, former superintendent of the St. Joseph School District, has been hired as a program development liaison for the Western Institute at 含羞草社区. In this part-time position, Dr. Smith will share responsibility for building a number of interlocking initiatives designed to help adults complete baccalaureate degrees that they may have [...]
