Yara Elkoush, a senior electrical engineering student at Rockhurst University, was recognized with the inaugural Maurice L. Brooks Award for Global Engagement at the United Nations Association of Greater Kansas City’s 55th annual Mayor’s U.N. Day Dinner.
As part of the All Companions Assembly on Aug. 19 that kicked off the academic year, Rockhurst University recognized several faculty and staff for both outstanding contributions and their years of service.
Joanna Cielocha, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, has received a $206,112 Mid-Career Advancement grant from the National Science Foundation to study parasites known as gregarines, which infect grasshoppers, in the American West to broaden the understanding of the gregarine diversity and distribution.
Rockhurst University’s newest graduate degree is the Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Although he lives in Boise, Idaho, and wasn’t familiar with Rockhurst University, Ted Marconi, ’26 Ed.D., said that when he started to look for a doctoral program he knew he had found the right one when he encountered Rockhurst.
It’s all about problem solving, according to Phillip Wrigley, ’12 M.Ed., who recently earned a nomination as Kansas Teacher of the Year and a national honor — one of three recipients of the American Civic Education Teacher Award (ACETA).
Rockhurst University’s College of Business and Technology will once again add to its graduate degree offerings in fall 2025 with the introduction of its Master of Science in Information Systems degree.
Recognizing a need to provide opportunities for those affected by ongoing reductions in force at federal agencies, Rockhurst University officials have announced a new tuition discount program designed to provide retraining and educational opportunities for recently displaced members of the U.S. federal workforce.
Each spring, a handful of students in the University’s criminal justice program are invited to be part of the Innocence Project course. This small group spends their semester reviewing a case where an incarcerated person has raised questions of innocence. Their goal is to review the case and report to the Kansas City-based Midwest Innocence Project whether they believe a case for innocence exists.
Rockhurst University has announced the dean’s list for the fall 2024 semester. This honor recognizes students who have achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or above.
The world is about to get more Jesuit-educated health care, education and business professionals. That’s after a series of hooding and pinning ceremonies Saturday that marked the completion of studies for more than 200 students in several Rockhurst University’s graduate degree programs and its Bachelor of Science in nursing program.
The Missouri Department of Conservation and the Missouri Community Forestry Council recently announced Rockhurst University has been awarded a 2024 Missouri Arbor Award of Excellence in the business and institution category, recognizing the outstanding efforts by the University to improve and preserve the natural environment on campus and beyond.
Sean Lenihan was in elementary school when Rockhurst University Professor Nancy Donaldson started the Physics of Medicine degree at Rockhurst.
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.
