December 14, 2017
Say it’s a Tuesday. Clear skies but chilly. Team’s in first place. Can you predict how many people will show up before the game even starts? That was the question before the business intelligence course taught by Xuan Pham, Ph.D., assistant professor of management and analytics, and Sandra Cannon, Ph.D., an adjunct instructor of management in the Helzberg School of...
December 6, 2017
Through toilet paper rolls, glue, macaroni necklaces and paint, junior Sarah Hummel first fell in love with the art of crafting. For every birthday and anniversary, a grand sculpture of materials, created with love, was presented. Now, with the help of family and friends, Hummel has turned her passion for crafting into a part-time business run from the comfort of...
December 4, 2017
Last year, a new initiative launched aimed at increasing the number of college graduates in the Kansas City area. With the help of 17 different regional educational institutions and a number of community partners, the KC Scholars program provides three different options for college funding designed to benefit traditional and nontraditional students alike who qualify based on academic performance and...
November 29, 2017
It wasn’t game day. It wasn’t even practice. But Rockhurst University senior soccer midfielder Salim Gumati was sweating. Gumati had just got done running drills with students from Longfellow Elementary School, located in the Kansas City neighborhood that is its namesake. On Wednesday, the Hawks took part in an NCAA community engagement event ahead of their Final Four appearance Thursday...
November 27, 2017
It’s not hard to imagine Phil Bennett, ’11, ’15 MBA, on TV. Bennett has a passion for singing, an outgoing, affable personality and a fondness for bowties that seems meant for the stage. He’s already had a previous brush with national fame — he was invited to be part of ESPN’s ESPY Awards show in 2012 as the University of...
November 14, 2017
It hasn’t always been so easy to view information. In March 1917, before the construction of the University's current library, Rockhurst University was named a partner in the Federal Depository Library Program, established by the Government Printing Office to provide free public and immediate access to government records at the 1,100 designated depository libraries in the United States. On Tuesday,...
November 4, 2017
Since it started less than two years ago, Active Minds has built a presence on the Rockhurst University campus with programming and advocacy aimed at changing the culture and reducing the stigma that can exist around mental illness. Through word-of-mouth, approximately 50 students showed up for the first meeting, before Active Minds was even an official organization. The group has...
November 3, 2017
If one is looking for an example of the impact data can have on organizational decision making, one need look no further back than this week. On Wednesday, the Houston Astros bested the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 World Series, marking the culmination of a yearslong rebuilding process powered to a large degree by advanced data analytics. The Dodgers,...
October 30, 2017
At Rockhurst University, Casey Honeywell, ’09, studied history. So it’s only fitting that she has now made some history of her own. In September, Team USA captured gold in the first-ever roller derby championship at the World Roller Games in Nanjing, China, the culmination of years of training and a sign of the growing global popularity of the sports Honeywell’s...
