Missouri State University

Missouri State University graduate student Josh Stegall will co-host a competitively-selected academic workshop for scholars across the country at the Western States Communication Association in February 2022 in Portland, Oregon. The workshop is based on Stegall's innovative scholarship, which explores the material dimensions of human speech and how they function to persuade.

Missouri State University student Katie Farr will compete in next year's Miss Missouri pagent after winning the Miss Southern Missouri crown recently.

Missouri State University student Marlee Frederking was recently crowned 2021 Okawville Fair Queen.

Cassidy McCandless (PA-S1, MS, RDN, LDN), a member of the Missouri State University Physician Assistant Studies Class of 2022, has accepted the position of Student-Member-at-Large on the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Board of Directors.

In spring 2021, 17 students graduated with distinction in their major from Missouri State University's Honors College.

After a record-setting number of entries, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri, is proud to showcase the next generation of contemporary artists in its National Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. Out of over 200 submissions, 56 artworks were chosen from 38 artists. Three of them are Missouri State University students.

Greta Cross, the editor-in-chief of The Standard, Missouri State University's student-run newspaper, has been named Journalist of the Year by the Missouri College Media Association. The award recognizes Cross as the top student journalist in Missouri for 2020. She is a senior journalism major.

James Morgan, a Missouri State University student majoring in hospitality leadership, has been chosen as the 2021 MSU Student Employee of the Year by the Student Employment Office.