Diana Vargas has always been interested in hospitality and travel. Missouri State University’s hospitality leadership program gave Vargas the best of both worlds with a hospitality leadership degree. “I was looking for the best program, and I found MSU,” Vargas said. Finding the right path Vargas grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. She started going to a community college in … [Read more...] about Falling in love with hospitality leadership, Springfield
Husref Rizvanovic, a 2018 Citizen Scholar, recently went to the American Thyroid Association's (ATA) 89th Annual Thyroid Conference Oct. 30-Nov. 3 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended with Dr. Johnson Thomas, a Mercy doctor and section chair in endocrinology. They presented on their research about thyroid cancer. Dr. A. Daniel Pinheiro, a Mercy head and neck surgeon, and Dr. … [Read more...] about Biology student works toward a cure
Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 with Drs. John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino. Their prize was for the development of lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Adam Wanekaya, professor of chemistry at Missouri State, knew Whittingham when Wanekaya was a PhD student at the University of New York, Binghamton. Whittingham was the chair of Wanekaya’s PhD … [Read more...] about Nobel Prize winner taught MSU professor
Every year, students work to clean up Jordan Creek at least three different times. On Oct. 19, more than 10 students volunteered their time. Dr. Matthew Pierson, associate professor of civil engineering, said that an estimated two dump trucks of trash has been cleaned from that section since they started. Pierson is grateful for everyone that volunteers to make … [Read more...] about Engineering students take out the trash
Dr. Rohit Dua doesn’t contain his teaching to college students. Dua, associate teaching professor of electrical engineering, wants everyone to be educated on electrical engineering. On Sept. 14, he ran the basic parameters measurement laboratory at the cooperative engineering EE laboratory. This was for students at Central High School (CHS). His son, and many children of … [Read more...] about Playing with electricity