Shoes that Shine
Examples of Runquiet’s work. Small business owner Lauren Rundquist never imagined she would be serving clients around the world while at the same time giving back to the community. “My goal is to make other people happy, to bring joy to others” says Rundquist, a senior strategic communications major with minors in business and entrepreneurship at Mizzou.…
Serving Seniors
Programs focused on providing care to senior citizens of Boone County are a major part of service learning at MU. Boone County Council on Aging and Adult Day Connection are two area programs that care for seniors and involve MU student volunteers. The senior citizen community is one of four main emphasis areas of service learning…
Celebrating Service
MU Service Learning Marks 25 Years
Jeff Selingo to Deliver Keynote Address at Mizzou’s Celebration of Teaching
Jeff Selingo Best-selling author and award-winning columnist Jeff Selingo will deliver the keynote address at the University of Missouri’s Celebration of Teaching at 1 p.m. on May 19. Selingo has spent his journalism career covering colleges and universities worldwide. His book, College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students, explores…
Service-Learner Earns MU’s First Peace Corps Prep Award
Dana Humphrey served as a health education advocate in Ghana as part of Mizzou’s Peace Corps Prep Program. In December, St. Louis native Dana Humphrey graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work from MU. Along with this degree, Humphrey received the Minor in Leadership and Public Service, the Multicultural Certificate and was MU’s first awardee…
Art with a Personal Touch
Madalynn Olmsted uses her art to educate the public about the stigmas associated with mental illnesses. Senior Madalynn Olmsted’s artwork draws upon her experience with mental illness and brings awareness to the prevalence of mental illness in today’s society. Olmsted uses drawings and embroidery of birdcages, childhood toys, razor blades, chains, pill and alcohol bottles, barbed…
Rob McDaniels Named Director of Mizzou Career Center
Rob McDaniel Rob McDaniels has been named director of the Career Center at the University of Missouri. McDaniels, who has part of the MU Career Center staff since 1987, begins his new role as director on Sept. 1. “I look forward to connecting with students and I am honored to be a part of their lives,”…
Loftin visits MU’s Capitol Interns
Mizzou legislative interns had lunch with a special guest during an event hosted in their honor at the Missouri State Capitol on April 15. MU Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin visited with students who spent the past semester as interns in offices of state legislators as part of the Civic Leadership Intern Program (CLIP). Loftin conversed with…
A New Way to Lecture
The University of Missouri’s best-kept secret, according to Brad Mitchell, senior media producer for Educational Technologies at Missouri (ET@MO), weighs 400 pounds and stands eight feet tall. Located on the second floor of the Heinkel Building, the Lightboard is the newest addition to the services and tools MU’s Instructional Media Studio offers faculty. The Instructional Media…
Learning Center Honors Excellence in Tutoring
From left-right: Nicole Rieken, Lisa Weeda, Chris Baumann, Joy Han, Jennifer Para, Amanda Mueller, John Tenny, and Katie Youmans. Not pictured: Kaystin Weisenberger and Molly Benton The Learning Center at Mizzou honored 10 student tutors with the 2015 Bonnie Zelenak Excellence in Tutoring Awards Friday, May 8. These awards recognize tutors who have distinguished themselves through their…