September 13, 2018
Call it playing with a purpose — a bright, inviting room, with walls covered in swatches of all colors and textures. There’s also a small trampoline, fidget spinners, and a particularly comfy-looking blanket, to name a few. For a child, this looks like a dream come true. When Rockhurst University junior Joey McGuire looks at the same space, he sees...
August 28, 2018
Around the beginning of the recent summer break, Nancy Donaldson, Ph.D., professor of physics, got an unexpected email. It was from Galen Pickett, Ph.D., a professor in the department of physics and astronomy at California State University Long Beach, regarding some statistics that he stumbled across in the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System database. Pickett had a connection to...
August 16, 2018
On Friday, more than 400 fresh faces head to campus for their first year at the Rock. Besides some certain universal truths of residence hall living they are sure to experience, what else do we know about the class of 2022? They’re pretty darn smart. The national average ACT score as of 2017 is 21. This year’s freshman class at...
August 8, 2018
Modeling, designing, sewing — when it comes to fashion, senior Daniela Lopez Romero does it all. It’s been that way for a while. It began, she said, on a visit to her grandmother in Colombia, where she helped make a simple skirt to wear to the beach. “That was the spark,” she said. “I said ‘Wow, I can make my...
July 19, 2018
In April, officials from Rockhurst University and architecture firm Gould Evans announced plans to transform the lower level of the Greenlease Library into a new multidisciplinary engaged learning and innovation space for students at Rockhurst and in the community — the STEAM Studio pop-up. Those same STEAM Studio leaders are now announcing an early boost to that effort, in the...
July 16, 2018
There’s no getting around it — the world needs more coders. Technology is an industry in need of qualified employees, capable of powering the software and hardware that the world increasingly relies on. That’s as true in Kansas City as any number of other cities in the U.S. — according to the Kansas City Tech Council’s annual Tech Specs report...
July 11, 2018
There’s good news and bad news for firms investing in corporate social responsibility initiatives in a recent article published in the Journal of Business Ethics co-authored by Wenbin Sun, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing in the Helzberg School of Management. The good news — companies are rewarded for undertaking efforts to improve their relationship to the environment, to their labor...
July 2, 2018
Rockhurst University has announced the dean’s list for the spring 2018 semester. This honor recognizes students who have achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or above. The following students earned a place on the list: Morgan Abegg Caroline Adams Zerina Adrovic Salvador Aguirre Justin Ahlheim Mara Akers Amber Akin Cesar Aldana Jack Alsbach Christiana Alvey Iman Aly Steven Amrein Marianna...
June 19, 2018
It took years for Jenny Buehler, ’11, to learn the routines that medical professionals in the United States use every day to care for patients. But on a recent trip halfway around the globe, Buehler said she learned quickly that medical care for so many others is anything but routine. Buehler will finish her pediatrics residency at Cardinal Glennon Children’s...
