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Ellen Spake Lecture Series

Ellen Spake Lecture Series

5:30 pm

Greenlease Gallery and Science Center 115

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Thu

Open Minds Book Discussion: "James" by Percival Everett

Open Minds Book Discussion: "James" by Percival Everett

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Greenlease Gallery

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Spring Break

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Film Series: "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"

Film Series: "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind"

7:00 pm

Arrupe Hall auditorium

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Rockhurst Community Highlights

Students

Senior Sofia Valdespino remembers when she fell in love. Her parents had enrolled her in tennis lessons in her native Mexico City when she was five years old. 

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Joanna Cielocha, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, has received a Mid-Career Advancement grant from the National Science Foundation to study parasites known as gregarines, which infect grasshoppers, in the American West.

Alumni

Kimberly Reynolds, ’24 M.S. in speech-language pathology, traveled to Uganda to advocate for children with disabilities, completing her clinical fellowship with Hope Speaks in Kampala and serving with Imprint Hope in Jinja.

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