April 13, 2021
This week, Rockhurst University will celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in a whole new way. Normally, the University schedules its MLK Day celebration in January to honor King’s birthday. However, COVID-19 means things look a little different this year as a result of the later start to the spring semester. Instead of...
April 8, 2021
Since 2004, Rockhurst University has marked the solemn occasion of Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with an interfaith ceremony in partnership with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. This year, in addition to a ceremonial reading on Kinerk Commons of names of those killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust – a list that includes 152 members of the...
April 5, 2021
Last year, senior biomedical physics of medicine major Bella Salerno was looking forward to her summer vacation for reasons other than getting out of town. Salerno had been accepted to the Purdy Summer Research Fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine’s department of radiation oncology and was looking forward to the experience of delving deeper into a subject she’s grown...
March 30, 2021
The U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate School list for 2022 is out, and several programs within Rockhurst University’s College of Business, Influence and Information Analysis earned recognition among the best in the nation. The management programs in the Helzberg School of Management, which is part of the University’s College of Business, Influence, and Information Analysis, were ranked No...
March 26, 2021
Rockhurst University has named Laura Horne-Popp as the next director of the Greenlease Library, effective June 1. Horne-Popp comes to Rockhurst from the University of Central Missouri, where she serves as assistant university librarian of the James C. Kirkpatrick Library. She brings to her new role extensive experience in all aspects of library operations and information services. Her instruction and...
March 19, 2021
Joshua Roberts had all the posters printed for Spring 2020 – his first in charge of an intramural sports program that hadn’t been given a lot of attention in the recent past. Then the pandemic hit and the posters never got off his desk.
March 18, 2021
Rockhurst University Companions, With the rise of the pandemic over the past year, our nation has also seen an inexcusable rise in violence directed toward Asian-Americans. These despicable acts of hate include verbal assaults, physical violence and even death, including the recent murder of a 75-year-old man taking a routine walk through his San Francisco neighborhood. Such hate is also...
March 15, 2021
On March 12, 2020, students, faculty and staff alike were notified that campus would be shut down for two weeks, a precautionary measure meant to prevent further spread of coronavirus/COVID-19. They would not be back for the remainder of the spring semester. That announcement came shortly after the World Health Organization called the crisis a global pandemic and the same...
March 14, 2021
For 2020 senior men’s lacrosse players Jason Zabel and Jake Bastien, life in early March 2020 was good. The seniors had helped the team to a No. 8 national ranking and they were two short months away from graduating. Then the downward spiral began.