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Bridge to the future: newly renovated Senior Lake Bridge is latest new campus landmark for 2022
Few years in recent William Woods memory have seen the establishment of as many new campus landmarks as in 2022. And now, the most prominent project of them all – the rebuilding of the famous bridge across Senior Lake – is now complete. This week the newly rebuilt bridge, which has yet to be formally […]
The “mural” of the story: retired longtime WWU Art professor has artwork permanently displayed at Columbia, Missouri Airport
For a professor lucky enough to teach at one university for 22 years, the pay-off is generations of students who learned from you, appreciated your guidance and took what you taught them out into the world and a successful professional career. Jane Mudd, part of the Art faculty at William Woods University from 1997-2019, will […]
WWU Social Work students help provide a lesson in “Reality” for junior high students through unique program
Allison Mattox ’23 was a student at Mexico (Missouri) Middle School when she was confronted with what life would be like as an adult when it came to family finances and budgeting. The Social Work major at William Woods was in eighth grade when she took part in a program called Reality Store, where participants […]
New campus landmarks, increased enrollment mark first week of Fall 2022 semester classes
The William Woods campus that students said goodbye to for the summer when they departed last Spring had a somewhat different feel when the calendar turned to August. During the first week of classes for the Fall 2022 semester this week, one could not help but notice so many new faces. As in new students, […]
Alumni You Should Know: Allyson Lewis ’82, Founder and CEO, The 7 Minute Life, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Allyson Lewis ’82 remembers the exact moment her life changed. “I was forty-one and as a full-time working mother, felt the constant crushing pressure of deadlines and obligations,” she recalled. “My life sped past me in a blur from one day to the next, one month to the next, and one year to the next. […]
Summertime in the William Woods horse stables: a unique experience for EQS student workers
On a Sunday evening in late May, a handful of Equestrian Studies students at William Woods University, working in the University’s horse stables for the summer, got an experience they may never get again in their budding careers in the industry. At 6:30 p.m. on May 22, just as the evening shift of student workers […]
After being grounded for three years, WWU students return to the world of global travel in 2022
There was a time when William Woods could accurately say, “Come to The Woods, and The World will be yours.” Meaning, of course, that those students who chose to be Owls had the chance to take life-changing trips to locations literally anywhere in the world during their time as students at WWU, through the University’s […]
First-year Owl already acing advanced business entrepreneurship
Daelynn Stock, just completing her first year at William Woods, still has three years of college before she will graduate in 2025 with a degree in American Sign Language (ASL)/Interpreting. But the Hermann, Missouri native has already graduated, in a sense, to the equivalent of an advanced course in business entrepreneurship. Stock “took stock,” if […]
University graduates 308 as commencement exercises return to normal
For the first time since 2019, commencement exercises at The Woods returned to the traditions the University has followed for decades on Saturday, April 30, as 308 WWU students received their diplomas and moved into the alumni ranks. Following two years of COVID-19 restrictions that significantly altered the University’s standard commencement activities, Graduation Day 2022 […]
Hosting basketball one more example of the close relationship between William Woods and the Special Olympics
Missouri Special Olympics is a movement that has been impacting athletes, their coaches and families across the state, and nation, for decades. In Fulton, the historic organization has found a home at William Woods University inside the gymnasium named for the University’s most legendary athlete. Since 2015, the basketball arena at WWU’s Helen Stephens Sports […]