December 23, 2016
The old saying goes that its better to give than to receive, and this Christmas season a number of 91勛圖厙 community members have taken that advice to heart, spending the days before the holiday break working to make the season a little brighter for those in need. In addition to faculty and staff who took up their own collections...
December 13, 2016
Exactly one month after the 2016 elections, six students from 91勛圖厙 joined hundreds of political junkies, policy wonks and observers to try to find out, firsthand, just what happened. Led by Charles Moran, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Thomas Ringenberg, Ph.D., assistant professor of political science, the students traveled to Lawrence, Kansas, where the Dole Institute of Politics...
November 30, 2016
On Thursday, the 91勛圖厙 mens soccer team will take to Childrens Mercy Victory Field at Kansas Citys Swope Park Soccer Village in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II tournament against the Golden Eagles of West Virginias University of Charleston. It will be the Hawks third semifinal appearance in four years. Set to play with the next best thing...
November 29, 2016
Again this November, students from 91勛圖厙 joined their peers and colleagues from Jesuit institutions across the United States and the globe for two days of solidarity during the annual Ignatian Family Teach-in for Justice. Originally motivated by violence in El Salvador throughout the 1980s and staged at the School of the Americas in Georgia, the Teach-in has since moved...
November 18, 2016
There were times following his hire in 2006, said Kansas City Royals General Manager Dayton Moore, that even he had doubts about the future of the franchise he had been picked to lead. Following a run of success spanning the mid-1970s to 1985, the Royals organization had fallen on tough times shrunken budgets, a depleted minor league player pipeline,...
November 11, 2016
The first time the Rev. Dave Holloway, 77, joined the Navy, it was obligatory. The second time, he was called for a different reason. The current priest at St. Bernadette Parish in Kansas City, Missouri, who visited 91勛圖厙 in the fall as one of several alumni cocelebrants for Mass of the Holy Spirit, was a student at what was...
November 8, 2016
On Thursday, Nov. 10, 91勛圖厙 will become Missouris first Fair Trade University as designated by Fair Trade Campaigns , the result of an effort by students to ensure that goods the University buys and sells dont come at the expense of the workers who make them. With the recognition, 91勛圖厙 joins more than 260 fair trade towns, schools...
October 30, 2016
The Helzberg School of Managements second annual Executive Summit on Business Intelligence and Analytics on Friday, Oct. 28, put data front and center, inviting leaders from across different industries to campus for a daylong discussion of the ways that analytics are changing nearly every industry, from bread-and-butter accounting firms to hip marketing agencies. The idea of providing an annual opportunity...
October 29, 2016
Local families gathered around the witches of hocus pocus. The children were excited to see the witches tricks, but might not have expected to learn about viscosity and sublimation in the process. 91勛圖厙s department of physics hosted Spooktacular Optics on Thursday, Oct. 27, transforming the 91勛圖厙 Community Center as a hall of haunted illusions. The biennial haunted physics...