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Alum, as a Chaplain, Answered "Calling Within a Calling"

November 11, 2016
Fr. Dave Holloway, center, served first in the Navy, and then as a chaplain
The first time the Rev. Dave Holloway, ’77, joined the Navy, it was obligatory. The second time, he was called for a different reason. The current priest at St. Bernadette Parish in Kansas City, Missouri, who visited Rockhurst University in the fall as one of several alumni cocelebrants for Mass of...Read More

Rockhurst University Earns Missouri’s First Fair Trade University Designation

November 8, 2016
Presentation of the Fair Trade Designation
On Thursday, Nov. 10, Rockhurst University will become Missouri’s first Fair Trade University as designated by Fair Trade Campaigns , the result of an effort by students to ensure that goods the University buys and sells don’t come at the expense of the workers who make them. With the recognition,...Read More

Data is the Topic of the Day at Second Executive BIA Summit

October 30, 2016
Executive Panel Members at the BIA Summit
The Helzberg School of Management’s second annual Executive Summit on Business Intelligence and Analytics on Friday, Oct. 28, put data front and center, inviting leaders from across different industries to campus for a daylong discussion of the ways that analytics are changing nearly every industry...Read More

Students Showcase Exciting Tricks and Science Lessons at Spooktacular Optics

October 29, 2016
Student with skull mask
Local families gathered around the witches of “hocus pocus.” The children were excited to see the witches’ tricks, but might not have expected to learn about viscosity and sublimation in the process. Rockhurst University’s department of physics hosted Spooktacular Optics on Thursday, Oct. 27,...Read More

Astronaut Scott Kelly To Share “Leadership Lessons From a Year in Space” As the Guest of the Rockhurst University Leadership Series

October 20, 2016
Scott Kelly Headshot
Scott Kelly, the U.S. astronaut who spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station, will bring his record-setting trip to life as the guest of the Rockhurst University Leadership Series, scheduled for Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in the Muehlebach Tower at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown. Kelly...Read More

Rockhurst Jesuits Celebrate Election of New Superior General

October 14, 2016
General Congregation ballot box
Members of the Society of Jesus worldwide — including those in Rockhurst University’s own Jesuit community — were celebrating the completion of one of the most high-profile items on the agenda of their 36th General Congregation — the election of the Society’s 31st Superior General. In the early...Read More

In MECA Challenge, Students Solve Real-Life Problems With Innovative Thinking

October 12, 2016
MECA Student Participants
Time was quickly running out on Friday afternoon. Students hastily worked to put together PowerPoint slide shows and organize their presentations. Along with experienced local entrepreneurs, students were doing something that they may not have yet done in their college careers — solve a real-world...Read More

Rockhurst University Launches New Physics Honor Society

October 11, 2016
Nancy Donaldson shakes hands with Willie Rockward
“Wow.” That was the reaction of Willie Rockward, Ph.D., president of the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society and associate professor of physics at Morehouse College, to describe the newest members of that society, the 29 students and three faculty members from Rockhurst University’s chapter, which...Read More

Awards to Honor Three Outstanding Rockhurst University Alumni

September 23, 2016
An alumni awards trophy
As part of the annual Family and Alumni Weekend celebration of all Hawks from the past, Rockhurst University will recognize three outstanding alumni for their careers and contributions to the community in a luncheon scheduled for noon on Saturday, Oct. 1, in the Greenlease Library . The Xavier...Read More

RU’s New Enrollment Guru on the Jesuit Identity, the Future of Education, and His Love of Homegrown Music

September 19, 2016
RU associate Vice President for Enrollment Matt Ellis
In July, Matt Ellis stepped into the role of associate vice president for enrollment at Rockhurst University, a position that had previously held by Lane Ramey, who recently retired after several decades of service to the University. The Scottsbluff, Nebraska, native said it’s a tall order to...Read More

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