The Griffon News

Thorne awarded for teaching excellence
Ann Thorne, professor of journalism and the Griffon Yearbook adviser, will be presented with the Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence at the Governor’s Outstanding Teacher Award luncheon in Columbia on April 11.
“It’s just incredible,” Thorne said. “It’s such a special award that only one person a year can get, so I’m [...]

Help is coming to Honduras – the third poorest country in Central America - and you can be a part of it.

Twenty commercial music students from Western were invited to work the 38th annual Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, Feb. 28 to March 2. Specifically requested by the CRS due to their demonstrated ability last year, Western students were tasked with everything from setting up for the performers to providing video and audio support.

Western biology students are doing undergraduate research evaluating how certain pharmaceuticals affect raccoons.

While college students everywhere are considering their spring break travel options, eighteen Western students have been working on theirs all semester. Western’s HON 396 class, Nineteenth Century Paris – La Belle Époque, will travel to Paris March 8-11 to study French social and cultural developments of the time period and how they relate to modern [...]

Instead of sitting at home like some Missouri Western students will be doing this spring break, a select few will have the opportunity to tour London.

Biology and math students have made Western proud; in a competition against schools such as Harvard, Princeton and Berkeley, they took home four awards.