Wanda Beard spent more than two decades as a teacher, starting at the now defunct University High on the UCM campus. Beard, 83, died Aug. 18 at Warrensburg Manor Care… Read more »
Author: Kaitlin Brothers
Two UCM students receive prestigious Fulbright grant
Noelle Brooks, senior international studies major, and Marena Coonrod, a graduate in special education, were selected as Fulbright students, which allows them to teach English abroad. “It is probably the… Read more »

Grant advances research at UCM
Two undergraduate students from UCM are busy on research projects thanks to the Undergraduate Scholars Grant. Daniel Akin, senior biology major, and Jessica Den Dekker, junior economics major, were awarded… Read more »
Technology, cell phones phase out need for blue-light pylons
By Leah Kemple and Kaitlin Brothers UCM has joined several other Missouri schools in eliminating emergency blue-light pylons, or E-phones, due to the proliferation of cell phones. Initially, UCM developed… Read more »
Gone but not forgotten
This summer, UCM lost five faculty members: Alfred Twomey, Joyce Jabolenski, Joseph Dolecki, Linda Mederis and John Horine. Their work was appreciated by the staff and faculty who knew them… Read more »

Percussionist marches into retirement after 34 years at UCM
Mike Sekelsky was very young when he first watched the Drum Corps International while hiding in the woods in Wisconsin. He said he used to walk four or five blocks… Read more »

McKein Michael Burch
McKein Michael Burch, 10, died on Friday, April 13, at his residence.

Jason Kander receives SGA award
VIDEO BY KAITLIN BROTHERS / MULTIMEDIA EDITOR (WARRENSBURG, Mo. )-Jason Kander, Missouri’s former secretary of state, received an award from UCM’s Student Government Association. Kander came to UCM April 20… Read more »

Kevin Willmott and Mark von Schlemmer on a film-tastic journey
VIDEO BY KAITLIN BROTHERS / MULTIMEDIA EDITOR (WARRENSBURG, Mo. )-Kevin Willmott is a film director and writer, and an associate professor at the University of Kansas teaching film studies. Mark… Read more »
What I hope for in the new SGA president
The Student Government Association sees a change in Presidents for the first time in two years. Courtney Abt, a graduate student studying criminal justice, recently won the SGA presidency by… Read more »