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 a scholarly paper centered on the conference theme, which was “Innovative Scholarship for Tumultuous Times.” Their project, entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Selective Exposure: Generating a Public Perception,” was sponsored by faculty member Dr. Angela Haas. The Missouri Western Chapter of Alpha Chi, sponsored by Dr. Teddi Deka and Dr. Angela Haas, achieved its 35th anniversary as an Honors Society at MWSU.Your Content Goes Here

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Dr. Adrienne Johnson, associate professor and chair of the Department of Education, is ���߲�����’s recipient of the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Click here to read the full story.

Master of Arts in Teaching graduate student Ricky Maltbia, a teacher for Kansas City Public Schools, was featured in NPR-KCUR for restarting the Northeast High School marching band. .

The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of Dr. Adrienne Johnson, chair and associate professor of the Department of Education, for a two-week English Language Specialist project focusing on high-quality teacher development experiences for English teachers in under-resourced regions in Turkey. This project is in partnership with the Turkish Ministry of Education. Dr. Adrienne Johnson is part of a select group, as her project is one of approximately 240 that the English Language Specialist Program supports each year.

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 fields. Dr. Bogdon and the students worked with the Girl Scouts across three stations. One station included dissecting owl pellets to determine what the owl had been eating. A second station built its own bird feeder and the third station worked on board the Griffon Lab to examine pond invertebrates through microscopes.