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William Woods University announces Fall 2018 Dean’s List
Fulton, MO – William Woods University (WWU) today officially announced its Dean’s List for the Fall 2018 academic term. A total of 256 students earned a place on the Fall 2018 Dean’s List, that requires a full-time student achieve a minimum 3.6 semester and cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale. Last fall’s list […]
Meet Terry Martin, Visual Arts
Professor of Visual Arts Growing up in Nature I was fortunate to grow up in Southern Missouri, in Springfield, where my father was a professor at Missouri State University. Growing up, there were lakes and streams and rivers. I had a bicycle and a fishing rod and was up at daylight each day and home […]
EQS students of all ages compete in nationally-ranked Hunter/Jumper Show
The third of three high-level national and regional competitions during the month of November, the Lake St. Louis Hunter/Jumper show offered another chance for William Woods Equestrian Science students and faculty to demonstrate why the EQS program at The Woods is the most prestigious in the nation. Coming on the heels of the American Royal […]
Meet Charlie Schattgen ’19, Exercise Science
Mid-Missouri native with a sports interest I was actually born here in Fulton and lived here for a few years and in Jefferson City for a while as well. When I was a kid we had to move to Virginia Beach, Virginia for my dad’s work. But then about seven years ago we moved back […]
Woods Briefs: Fall 2018
William Woods Students, Faculty, and Staff Jim Head, a recently retired Education professor, was honored by the NE District Principals Association with the creation of the Jim Head Aspiring Administrators Scholarship. Head has more than 31 years of experience as a teacher and administrator in Missouri’s public schools, served as the state president of MASSP, and […]
EQS students and faculty shine at prestigious western show, Color Breed Congress
Each year, students and faculty from William Woods University’s nationally-ranked Equestrian Science program demonstrate the strength of the program at some of the industry’s largest national and regional horse shows. That was the case at the Color Breed Congress, held last month in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where both students and faculty earned multiple champions, reserve champion […]
Meet Kelley Barr ‘21, Theatre Major
Coming to WWU I fell in love with the campus and the town and in doing so, found out that William Woods had a very good Theatre program, which I liked because I was looking to go into music and theatre. At the time, I wanted to major in education and the department was nice. […]
Meet Briley Browning ’19, Double Major in Mathematics and Educational Studies
Going from a big school to a small school My story is a little different than the average WWU student. I transferred here my sophomore year after spending a year at the University of Missouri in Columbia, which is a huge school thatwas not a great fit for me. When you are used to all your […]
William Woods University History professor awarded $25,000 grant for research on new book
Craig Bruce Smith is authoring “The Greatest Man in the World: A Global History of George Washington” Fulton, MO – Craig Bruce Smith, an assistant professor of History at William Woods University (WWU), was recently awarded a $25,000 grant for research on his forthcoming new book. The grant from PNC Charitable Trusts will be used […]
EQS students compete successfully at the historic American Royal in Kansas City
The American Royal is one of the nation’s most historic horse shows, an event that has been going on since the early 1900s in Kansas City. It is the United Professional Horsemen’s Association (UPHA) National Championship for Saddlebreds, hackney horses and Standardbreds, with professionals from all over the nation coming to compete in Saddle Seat […]