Webster News
Excellence in Teaching: Kemper Award Winners DiFate, Palmer, Delman, Hutton
The William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching is awarded each year to two full-time and two part-time faculty members at Webster University who demonstrate teaching at its finest. Nominated and supported by students and colleagues, they are selected by a committee of their peers for their outstanding teaching. This year’s full-time faculty recipients [...]
Webster Welcomes International Educators, NAFSA to St. Louis
More than 8,000 international university and college presidents, provosts, professors, administrators and policy experts from approximately 120 countries will be meeting in St. Louis May 26-31 for an annual, six-day NAFSA conference that focuses on the globalization of higher education. With 10,000 members worldwide, NAFSA is the world’s largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education, and [...]
Stroble Receives Educational Leadership Award
President Elizabeth (Beth) Stroble was one of 16 women honored as a leader in the St. Louis area during the 10th annual “Salute to Women in Leadership” dinner, hosted by the St. Louis Community Empowerment Foundation May 16. Stroble was selected for her work in educational leadership. “I am humbled to be recognized among so [...]
International & U.S. Campuses
Webster Welcomes International Educators, NAFSA to St. Louis
More than 8,000 international university and college presidents, provosts, professors, administrators and policy experts from approximately 120 countries will be meeting in St. Louis May 26-31 for an annual, six-day NAFSA conference that focuses on the globalization of higher education. With 10,000 members worldwide, NAFSA is the world’s largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education, and [...]
Webster Leiden Commencement Welcomes ICC Prosecutor
The Webster University Leiden (Netherlands) campus welcomed Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as its 2013 commencement speaker at ceremonies Saturday, May 11. “Mrs. Bensouda did a great job,” said Webster Leiden director Jean Paul van Marissing. “She is a very powerful woman, a role model for women leadership and for our [...]
NCR Welcomes Webster Alumnus Col. Jeremy Martin as Commencement Speaker
Webster University alumnus and Commandant of the Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Ft. Meade, Md., Col. Jeremy Martin, will deliver the commencement address during Webster University National Capital Region’s 2013 commencement ceremony, to be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 18 at the Bender Arena, American University. “We are honored to continue Webster’s partnership, [...]
Webster Events
Film Series: ‘Fame High’ May 24-26
The Webster University Film Series presents Fame High May 24, 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Moore Auditorium. Admission is $4 for Webster staff and faculty and free for students with Webster ID. Fame High Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2012, USA, 88 min. From the nail-biting freshman auditions to the spectacular year-end performances, Fame [...]
Film Series: ‘The Hedgehog’ May 23
The Webster University Film Series presents The Hedgehog Thursday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Moore Auditorium as part of The Celluloid Couch series. Admission is $4 for Webster staff and faculty and free for students with Webster ID. The Celluloid Couch THE HEDGEHOG (Le hérisson) (Mona Achache, 2009, France, 100 min.) Paloma is [...]
David Axelrod Visits Webster, Discusses ‘Building Brand Obama’
“A piece of cake,” was David Axelrod’s response to “How did you decide to help a bi-racial man with a Kenyan name run for president of the United States?” His light-hearted comment set the tone as the former counsel to President Obama, gave an inside look at Obama’s 2008 run for president to a packed [...]
Campus Snapshots
Snapshots: Faculty Staff Recognition Breakfast
Webster University faculty and staff gathered at the home campus May 14 for the annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Breakfast. Here are a few snapshots from the event. If you would like to have a particular photo from the breakfast, contact Marianne Kirk at kirkma@webster.edu.
Snapshot: ROTC Grad has Multiple Webster Ties
Webster Army ROTC student Jane McKibben recently received her commission in the U.S. Army and proudly pinned on her “butter bars,” becoming a second lieutenant in a ROTC ceremony. The newly commissioned 2nd Lt. McKibben, who graduated last week from Webster University with a BA in International Relations, was among 16 ROTC graduates to be [...]
Snapshots: Central Florida Holds 5th Annual Delta Mu Delta Induction
The 5th Annual Central Florida Delta Mu Delta induction ceremony was held in Winter Park, Fla. on May 3. Seventeen students from the Orlando metropolitan campus location and other Florida campus locations were inducted as members of Delta Mu Delta, Lambda Kappa Chapter, the international honor society in Business Administration. Campus directors from Ocala and [...]
Other Recent Articles
Excellence in Teaching: Kemper Award Winners DiFate, Palmer, Delman, Hutton
The William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching is awarded each year to two full-time and two part-time faculty members at Webster University who demonstrate teaching at its finest. Nominated and supported by students and colleagues, they are selected by a committee of their peers for their outstanding teaching. This year’s full-time faculty recipients [...]
Webster Welcomes International Educators, NAFSA to St. Louis
More than 8,000 international university and college presidents, provosts, professors, administrators and policy experts from approximately 120 countries will be meeting in St. Louis May 26-31 for an annual, six-day NAFSA conference that focuses on the globalization of higher education. With 10,000 members worldwide, NAFSA is the world’s largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education, and [...]
Gorloks to Face Kean in Championship Opener May 24
The nationally 12th-ranked Webster University baseball team plays Kean University (N.J.) in the final contest on day one of the NCAA III Baseball Championship, better known as World Series, on May 24 at 7:45 p.m., in Appleton, Wis. While some of the favorites from recent Series did not make the finals this year, it is [...]
Film Series: ‘Fame High’ May 24-26
The Webster University Film Series presents Fame High May 24, 25 and 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Moore Auditorium. Admission is $4 for Webster staff and faculty and free for students with Webster ID. Fame High Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2012, USA, 88 min. From the nail-biting freshman auditions to the spectacular year-end performances, Fame [...]
Film Series: ‘The Hedgehog’ May 23
The Webster University Film Series presents The Hedgehog Thursday, May 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Moore Auditorium as part of The Celluloid Couch series. Admission is $4 for Webster staff and faculty and free for students with Webster ID. The Celluloid Couch THE HEDGEHOG (Le hérisson) (Mona Achache, 2009, France, 100 min.) Paloma is [...]
Snapshots: Faculty Staff Recognition Breakfast
Webster University faculty and staff gathered at the home campus May 14 for the annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Breakfast. Here are a few snapshots from the event. If you would like to have a particular photo from the breakfast, contact Marianne Kirk at kirkma@webster.edu.
Survivor of Rwandan Genocide Named Outstanding Graduate
In 1994, during the Rwandan genocide, Olive Mukabalisa was a 5-year-old living in a refugee camp in her own country. She lost her father, mother and a brother to the genocide. Nineteen years later, Mukabalisa was 8,000 miles away from the horror of her childhood. She is a remarkable Webster University student leader who joined [...]
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