Rockhurst News

An exhibit on view until mid-August in the Greenlease Library on campus featuring works that start the same — but end in different places.

Rockhurst University’s College of Business and Technology has earned extended accreditation from the AACSB International, one of the most widely recognized and prestigious accreditations for schools of business worldwide.

Rockhurst University and Saint Louis University have named a program director to guide a new Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist program expected to launch in 2028 as a partnership between the two institutions.
Nicholas Curdt, DNAP, CRNA, CHSE, will lead the program, design its curriculum and guide it as it undergoes the accreditation process. Curdt will also serve as a point of contact for interested prospective students for what promises to be a high-demand program.

Rockhurst University’s newest graduate degree is the Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

A year after Rockhurst University cracked the top 10 on the list of Midwest Regional Universities by U.S. News and World Report, the institution is once again moving up – this time claiming the top spot in the state on that list, among other honors.

Odin George Buser was born with a complex set of health issues as a result of unbalanced chromosome translocation that prevented him from doing a lot of the things children his age would normally do. But when he was given something like a toy that he could manipulate, he would beam with happiness, his mother Courtney said.

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.

Jingjing Pan, assistant professor of nursing, had already had a full nursing education by the time she began as a student at Saint Luke’s College of Health Sciences (before it became part of Rockhurst University in 2020).

U.S. News and World Report released its Best Grad Schools 2025 rankings Tuesday, with several programs in the College of Business and Technology ranked among the nation’s best, along with several of Rockhurst University’s health sciences programs.

Yu Liu, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry, knows that organic chemistry has a bit of a reputation. It’s an innately difficult subject; a crucible for generations of science majors at Rockhurst. Despite being the face of what many consider Rockhurst’s most difficult class, Liu was named Faculty of the Year by students at the Festival of Student Achievement in April. How does he do it?