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To Better Understand Their Patients, OT Students Bust Out the Drawing Pad

September 27, 2023
It’s been a while since first-year occupational therapy student Lindsey Fuentes sat down to really draw something. The mother of three said she does scribble shapes by request for her children. But it’s been a while since she really focused on observing a person or object and translating what she sees onto paper. “It was kind of intimidating at first,” she said. But this was about more than reconnecting with her artistic side. For a group of occupational therapy graduate students in the psychosocial lab course led by Tammy Bruegger, OTD, assistant professor of occupational therapy, a trip Friday to...
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University Breaks Ground on Alvin Brooks Center for Faith-Justice
December 2, 2022
“Why me, oh Lord?” It’s a question Alvin Brooks said he has asked himself at different points throughout his life — in trying times and in moments of triumph. And it was one, he said, that he found himself asking again on Friday as Rockhurst University broke ground on a faith-justice center named in his honor. It was only recently...
President Sandra Cassady, Ph.D.
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Rockhurst Inaugurates 15th President
November 14, 2022
“Go Hawks.” Sandra Cassady, Ph.D., closed her inaugural speech Friday with a cheer, marking her official appointment into the 15 th president of Rockhurst University. Cassady — who assumed duties of the presidency in June following the departure of the Rev. Thomas B. Curran, S.J. — was officially installed Friday, Nov. 11, in a series of afternoon events on campus...
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Rockhurst University and Andrews McMeel Universal Announce New Student Award For DEI-Centered Projects
November 13, 2022
Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU) will launch a new award for students at Rockhurst University to execute multimedia creative projects centered around diversity, equity and inclusion in honor of John P. McMeel, co-founder of AMU. The Andrews McMeel Universal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award is open to undergraduate or graduate students to propose a communication, multimedia or arts project based around...
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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 students both in the U.S. and at Rockhurst University has grown in the last 10...
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It’s Inauguration Week!
November 7, 2022
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 have only been 15 presidents (counting Cassady). But this one will have its own...
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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 STEMMy Award from women’s leadership organization Central Exchange during its 9 th annual STEMMy...
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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 volleyball will also be added as a varsity sport beginning with the...
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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 the Center for Arts and Letters’ ArtOberfest calendar...
Chad Sogas, Rockhurst alumni filmmaker
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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 the film “Rat Tail”...

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