January 9, 2024
Rockhurst University has announced the dean’s list for the fall 2023 semester. This honor recognizes students who have achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or above. The following students have been named to the list: Omar Abla Dati Abuladze Haylee Ace Ben Adams Courtney Adams Nate Adamson Oscar Ahumada Jessica Aldana Sara Alghsein Safiya Ali Gage Allen Michael Allen Denim...
January 5, 2024
Photos courtesy Kenny Ellison. Glenn North has a number of titles on his resume — he’s a 2006 graduate of Rockhurst University, an adjunct faculty member in the English department, director of inclusive learning at the Kansas City Museum and poet laureate for Kansas City’s Historic 18 th and Vine District. By his own admission, some of the credit for...
January 5, 2024
Rockhurst University Companions, We recently were made aware that Dr. Mohamed Kohia, who retired from Rockhurst University in 2023 as professor of physical therapy, is seemingly shown in a video where he is identified as a Rockhurst University professor and is expressing views on the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. The University has reason to question whether this video accurately...
December 20, 2023
This week, Rockhurst University was one of 20 Missouri colleges and universities selected to receive competitive grand funding to enhance their nursing education program, part of an effort to build the state’s nursing workforce. The University’s Saint Luke’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences will receive $450,000 from the state’s Nursing Education Incentive Program, part of a $5 million grant...
December 19, 2023
Rockhurst University has received the NCAA Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence for achieving four-year Academic Success Rates of 90 percent or higher for the 13th consecutive year. Forty-four Division II member schools are recipients of the Presidents' Award for Academic Excellence. Rockhurst is one of eight schools to have earned the recognition every year since the award was started in...
December 6, 2023
Rockhurst University’s business school will be renamed the College of Business and Technology, representing a renewed focus on the premiere AASCB-accredited Jesuit business programs the school has built its name on and growth opportunities in its burgeoning tech and analytics programs to serve the growing need in tech, health and analytics-focused sectors. The Academic Affairs subcommittee of the Rockhurst University...
December 1, 2023
For more than three decades, the Rockhurst University community has rung in the Christmas season with a combination of stirring choral music, familiar Christmas carols and Biblical readings. So get out your festive sweater, fire up some hot chocolate, and plan to attend the 33 rd annual Ceremony of Lessons and Carols , scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2...
November 10, 2023
Over the summer, sophomore Sarah Joseph had the opportunity to learn as part of a select group from around the world as part of the Stowers Summer Scholars program at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. The institute, located blocks from the Rockhurst University campus, invites outstanding undergraduate students to be part of an intensive eight-week experience learning from and...
October 31, 2023
Photos courtesy Kyle Rivas/Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Every year, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce recognizes two outstanding female leaders with the ATHENA Award, one of its highest honors. The list of past honorees is a who’s who of Kansas City’s foremost female leaders, including philanthropist and civic leader Adele Hall and former Urban Neighborhood Initiative president...