After teaching at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Tom Kachel joined the Southwest Missouri State University Department of Home Economics in 1980. He was responsible for the development of contract design classes for the growing interior design program. He retired as assistant professor of fashion and interior design. To honor Kachel as a founding member of the … [Read more...] about Tom Kachel retires after nearly 30 years
Three years ago, if you had asked the group of alumni and community members who called themselves the Hospitality and Restaurant Administration Advisory Board what they envisioned for the future of the program at Missouri State, they would have given you a specific list of very ambitious goals: • Become a fully fledged department under the College of Natural and Applied … [Read more...] about Advisory board “on board” with progress
Bats of Missouri is the third publication in Indiana State University’s series on the bats of the United States. Written by Dr. Lynn Robbins, a professor of biology at Missouri State, in conjunction with two former graduate students, Justin Boyles and John Timpone, Bats of Missouri is, according to Dr. Robbins, a “biological look at the habits and distribution of bats in … [Read more...] about Missouri State professor gone “batty”
Diet Coke® + Mentos® = Fountains. Really, really big fountains. Participants in the 2009 Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference on the Missouri State University campus got a chance to see this in action, learn the science behind it and have a lot of fun, all at the same time. Oct. 24, 2009, marked the 16th annual EYH conference, sponsored by the College of Natural and … [Read more...] about Expanding Your Horizons 2009
Biology Professor John Havel is on sabbatical during the 2009-10 academic year, doing research on biological invasions at the Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin (http://limnology.wisc.edu). While at Trout Lake Research Station, he has sampled invasive snails in lakes and streams in the northern highland district and developed experiments to examine their dispersal … [Read more...] about Biologist migrates north at snails pace