Southeast Missouri State University

In the fields near Jordan, Montana, prospecting the Hell Creek Formation, a group of Southeast Missouri State University students recently uncovered fossils that tell a story 65 million years old. From June 20-26, 2021, the geoscience students embarked on a trip to search for dinosaur fossils, and they did not return empty handed.

Alexys Bergschneider, a senior from Springfield, Missouri, and Justin Tuschhoff, a senior from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, were crowned the 2020 Man and Woman of the Year during Southeast Missouri State University's 2020 Spirit Week celebrations.

Southeast Missouri State University sophomore Killian Delaney has been named the 2020 Golden Opportunity Scholar by the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

Southeast Missouri State University student Gabrione Kent has combined his passion for charitable work and entrepreneurship to help fight food insecurity on campus and in the local community. Kent, a senior entrepreneurship major from Warrensburg, Illinois, created the One Meal A Week program as a way for students to donate their unused meal plan dollars to the Redhawk Food Pantry.

Seven Southeast Missouri State University students from Southeast's Donald L. Harrison College of Business and Computing traveled to the third annual Foundation for Economic Education Conference (FEECon) in Atlanta, Georgia, June 13-15.

Southeast games are excited about a plan to develop an eSports venue in Southeast's Missouri State University's Towers Complex that is expected to attract both recreational and competitive Southeast players when it opens for the start of the fall 2019 semester.

Southeast Missouri State University senior Heather Leslie of Bartlett, Tennessee, is taking the fall semester off to continue traveling across the nation, working on the Discovery Channel's "Street Outlaws: Memphis" and "Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings."

Southeast Missouri State University's Hoover Center, a facility offering supportive programming during the daytime hours to well and frail senior adults age 60 and older, is a unique space serving the elderly and their families in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson areas. The Center also serves as an educational training facility for Southeast undergraduate students majoring in family studies and communication disorders.

Words are powerful, and some words can cut deep. In the fourth annual Skin Deep Project, Southeast Missouri State University students are learning how to take control of the words that define them by proclaiming words of empowerment and redefine who they really are.

Zackary Koeller, a senior from Jackson, Missouri, and Danielle Bergfeld, a senior from Effingham, Illinois, were crowned the 2018 Man and Woman of the Year at halftime of the Southeast Missouri State University Homecoming football game on Saturday, Oct. 13, on Houck Field.

Southeast Missouri State University student Myriah Bernard was recently selected to serve as a student delegate at the 42nd World Federation of United Nations Association's (WFUNA) Plenary Assembly and 3rd Global Youth Forum in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Southeast Missouri State University's Conservatory of Theatre and Dance will offer two sneak peeks of its upcoming performance of "An American Hero" in New York City with two non-ticket dress rehearsals of the show at Southeast's River Campus.

This weekend, several nontraditional students - many over 50 years old - will be crossing the stage demonstrating the "will to do" has no age parameters. Ron Broyles of New Madrid, Missouri, Marie Gill of Portageville, Missouri, and Lorrie Compton of LaGrange, Georgia, are earning bachelor's degrees Southeast Missouri State University's spring commencement ceremony May 12 and preparing to pursue their next challenges.

Southeast Missouri State University senior Heather Keesee says being a Libra - a natural people pleaser - makes hospitality management a great career fit for her. She is interning this summer at the Beau Rivage MGM Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she is shadowing management in hopes of launching a career in the industry.

Kara Hartnett, editor of the Arrow , the student newspaper of Southeast Missouri State University, was named Journalist of the Year at the Missouri College Media Association (MCMA) Conference April 7-8 at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.

The Southeast Missouri State University cyber defense team took second place at the 2018 Erich J. Spenger Midwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) March 23-24 at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois.

For the sixth straight year, the Southeast Missouri State University Cyber Defense Team won the Missouri Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) March 3.

Southeast Missouri State University students selected to participate in a four-day seminar during spring break week March 13-18 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

It was love at first step for Sabrina Presley of Lowndes, Missouri, when she walked onto Southeast Missouri State University's campus at the age of eight to present a History Fair project.

Southeast Missouri State University alumna Twila Mason of Bloomfield, Missouri, will be starting her own part-time crafting business, Twila's Crafty Cat Studio.

Southeast Missouri State University alumna Eliza Grove of Dix, Illinois, works as a consultant with Lighting Science Group in Satellite Beach, Florida. Her clients include the Los Angeles Dodgers and the U.S. Olympic team as it traveled to Sochi for the Winter Olympics.

Southeast Missouri State University alumnus Garvin G. Ambrose of Toronto, Canada, has accepted a position as the Chief of Staff in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago.

Southeast Missouri State University alumnus Timothy Weddle of Jefferson City, Missouri, has recently been hired as the St. Louis Symphony's "first call substitute."

When alumna Carol Backman of Cape Girardeau learned about the U.S. embassies overseas in high school and went home talking to her mother about it, she assumed it would not go anywhere. However, once she graduated from Southeast Missouri State University, her mother, who had made a mental note of the conversation, gave her a job application for a position with the U.S. Department of State.

Southeast Missouri State University alumna Kelley Oswald of Ballwin, Mo., has two passions: dance and nutrition. Last season, Kelley expressed her passion as a dancer for the St. Louis Ambush Indoor Soccer team's dance team while advancing her education by studying nutrition at Saint Louis University.

Southeast alumnus Chance Hill of Saint Robert, Mo., is flying high with Royal Caribbean Cruise line.

Alumna Laura Roth of Jacksonville, Ill., is the founder and artistic director for the Dance on Film Project in St. Louis.

Alumna Crystal Lewis of Sikeston, Mo., is the founder and director of the Conversion Dance Project in Phoenix, Ariz. On June 21, she will present a solo work at the BETA Dance Festival in Phoenix, Ariz.

Kristen Schulte of O'Fallon, Mo., has recently begun work as the State Parks Youth Corps coordinator.

Southeast Missouri State University alumna Kelcey Matheny of Bradford, Tenn., is busy exploring New York City this semester as one of just 16 dancers selected for the Broadway Dance Center's Professional Semester Program.