December 12, 2019
For many children, unwrapping presents on Christmas means discovering all order of blinking, beeping, moving things to annoy the adults in the room. However, those with developmental or neurological disabilities can have trouble with the fine motor skills needed to push or pull the corresponding controls on those sorts of toys. That’s why students and faculty from Rockhurst University’s exercise...
December 11, 2019
As the rest of us spend holiday break catching up with friends or family, curled up with a book or binging TV shows, Matt Schmidli, MFA, assistant professor of theater, will be roaming an apocalyptic wasteland. Filming began last weekend on the pilot episode of Black Zone, a TV show filmed in Kansas City in which Schmidli plays the lead...
December 6, 2019
Rockhurst University’s physics of medicine program is a unique one, centered on active, hands-on learning designed to provide future health care providers a foundation in physics by showing how the concepts exist within the world of medicine. It’s been a success , attracting national attention — in April, physics of medicine received the 2019 American Physical Society Improving Undergraduate Physics...
December 4, 2019
In Ignatian spirituality, the “examen” is a prayer that allows the pray-er to look back over the day, reviewing with the intent of “finding God in all things,” giving thanks for what went well and pausing to reflect on things that didn’t go well, finishing with a look toward the next day and what can be done better. Similarly, Rockhurst...
November 27, 2019
Junior Karen Bravo had been looking at November 2019 on the calendar with some uncertainty, but also maybe a bit of anticipation. Bravo, a finance and Spanish major, moved at age 7 with her mother and younger brother from Guadalajara, Mexico, to the United States. Her family had always been careful to maintain legal residency status. But becoming a citizen...
November 14, 2019
Eight lives. Thirty years. This year, Jesuit institutions and communities across the world are recognizing three decades since the murder of six Jesuits at the University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, along with their housekeeper and her daughter on Nov. 16, 1989. The crime, perpetrated by members of the country’s military in an apparent attempt to frame...
November 8, 2019
Becoming one of the world’s foremost advocates for justice was not necessarily a goal for Sister Helen Prejean when she took her final vows. But once she started down that path, there was no escape. Sr. Prejean, whose 1994 book Dead Man Walking was turned into a hit film the next year, was the guest of the Visiting Scholar Lecture...
November 8, 2019
“Love ought to manifest itself in deeds rather than in words” goes the St. Ignatius of Loyola quote familiar to so many in Jesuit circles. Rockhurst University is heeding that call in a new way with the launch of the Love in Action Fund, designed to help meet the often unique, sometimes urgent circumstances in which members of the Rockhurst...
October 31, 2019
To many members of Rockhurst University’s Voices for Justice student group, the annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice is a highly anticipated opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C., to learn from peers and put their faith into action to advocate for a wide range of social justice causes. But getting there means raising funds, and raising funds sometimes means getting...
