Vienna Commencement Weekend Honors Guests from Greece and Beyond

Webster University’s Vienna campus celebrated its annual commencement with ceremonies last weekend. Vienna’s Tina Hofmeister provided a report to share via Webster Today: Friday Evening: Honors Convocation With approximately 80 attendees, Friday’s Honors Convocation cocktail was really moving as our very best students were recognized in front of their proud families in the stately Viennese [...]

Multimedia Coverage of Webster Commencement All Weekend

Webster University faculty, staff and administrators have been working for months to celebrate what students have been working for years to reach: Saturday’s 93rd annual Commencement and the degrees that will be conferred upon a worldwide class of 7,479 — 1,031 of whom will be at the ceremony at The Muny in St. Louis. As [...]

Webster Celebrates 25 Years in London

Webster University-London alumni, graduating students and their families, and administration and faculty gathered May 4 to commemorate a special anniversary on the lawn of Regent’s College London – home to Webster – in beautiful Regent’s Park. The cocktail reception with 150 attendees celebrated the 25th anniversary of Webster University programs in London. The guests joined [...]

Webster Faculty Member Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

A prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship was recently awarded to Juan Chavez, adjunct professor in Webster’s Department of Art. Known as “midcareer” awards, these annual grants are intended for advanced professionals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards only 220 fellowships [...]

DOE Awards Webster $1.9 Million Grant for K.C. Teaching English Program

ST. LOUIS, May 2, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition today announced that it has awarded Webster University a five-year, $1.9 million National Professional Development Grant. This is the largest federal grant that Webster has ever received. The grant will fund “The Culturally Responsive Instruction for English Learners Project,” [...]

2012 Student Leadership Awards: Celebrating Student Achievements

The Student Leadership Award dinner Friday, April 27, provided an occasion to recognize the outstanding work of Webster University’s student leaders, student employees and student organizations on the St. Louis campus. In remarks at the event, President Beth Stroble, Provost Julian Schuster and outgoing SGA President Courtney Turner, spoke of their excitement in seeing the [...]

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