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This Week, Growing First-Gen Student Population Is Celebrated

November 8, 2022

If you are the first person in your family to go to college, congratulations! Also, today is your day, as First-Generation College Celebration Day is celebrated nationally and will be recognized throughout the week here on the Rockhurst University campus. The number of first-generation college...Read More

It’s Inauguration Week!

November 7, 2022

Sandra Cassady, PhD, the 15th president of Rockhurst University

This is it, folks. This Friday, Nov. 11, Sandra Cassady, Ph.D., will be inaugurated as president of Rockhurst University in what is shaping up to be a joyous, celebratory afternoon . Presidential transitions in higher education are usually historic moments — in Rockhurst’s 112-year history, there...Read More

Math Faculty Member Honored With “STEMMy” Award from Central Exchange

November 1, 2022

A member of the Rockhurst University mathematics faculty has been honored alongside other local female leaders in STEM for work that seeks to inspire a love of math in young people, particularly girls and young women. Zdenka Guadarrama, Ph.D., professor of mathematics, received the WiSTEMM Educator...Read More

Rockhurst University to Boost Athletics With Addition of Seven New Teams

October 28, 2022

Over the next two years, Rockhurst University will expand its athletics program with the addition of seven teams. Men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field will join the Hawks lineup as varsity sports for the 2023-24 academic year. Men’s...Read More

Student-Produced Short Films Set the Mood for the Halloweekend

October 27, 2022

Nothing says Halloween like a double-feature of scary movies, right? The red carpet (obviously the spookiest carpet color) will be rolled out at Arrupe Hall Saturday for the premiere of two short films with a cast and crew made up of mostly students in the Rockhurst Department of Film Arts, part of...Read More

Rockhurst Engineering Programs Celebrate Accreditation

October 6, 2022

Rockhurst University’s civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering programs are now fully accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, the global accreditor of college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering, and engineering...Read More

Alum Finds Life-Saving Help Through Revelations Learned Making Award-Winning Film

October 6, 2022

Filmmaker Chad Sogas, '03, had a rat tail for 10 years growing up. It was so much a part of his history that he decided to make a film about it, but the film uncovered something he kept hidden for years. Sogas is now an editor/director in the advertising industry in Brooklyn, New York. He created...Read More

Student Finds Academic Love Amidst the Wildflowers

October 3, 2022

Junior Gavin Schaefer on top of the Barkley building

In the middle of Kansas City’s bustling Crossroads Arts District is an unexpected patch of prairie. And in the middle of that, you’ll often find junior Gavin Schaefer. “It’s really serene, but it’s in the middle of the city,” he said. “A lot of people don’t know that this place exists — I grew up...Read More

Sisters Support, Inspire Each Other Through Saint Luke’s BSN Program

September 23, 2022

Eden and Addie Griffith, BSN Program Kansas City

Nearly every nurse has a story of why they got started in the profession, and almost all involve a nurse providing care and comfort to them or a loved one. For Addie Griffith, it was after breaking her orbital bone, face, nose and suffering a severe concussion when getting in a nasty collision on...Read More

Leadership and Ethics Day Turns Classroom Over Alumni Leaders

September 21, 2022

Once a year, Rockhurst University alumni are invited back to the classroom, this time as teachers. The annual Leadership and Ethics Day has become a tradition in the College of Business, Influence and Information Analysis at Rockhurst — a one-day marathon of guest lectures from alumni, who bring...Read More