FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fulton, Mo. ‒ Oct. 22, 2024: Researchers from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, have uncovered more than 113 fossilized bones of a 66-million-year-old dinosaur, making “Shady” — as it is affectionately...
Record Numbers of Blue Jays Flock to 2023 Homecoming and Family Weekend The 2023 Homecoming and Family Weekend brought hundreds to campus for fast-paced celebrations that kept the Westminster community hopping from event to...
Spring rains flooded the quarry area, preventing workers from approaching the slick, muddy terrain to uncover bones previously discovered there. A tibia, three rib bones, and other remains littered the site at the Grand...
Vi Lowe is a 2023 graduate of Fulton High School who attended the 2023 Dinosaur Dig as a guest of Westminster College, with firm plans to attend a larger university in the fall. The...
A livestream test run of the upcoming virtual Hancock Symposium on Sept. 16, 2020, captured NASA Chief Scientist Dr. James Green enthusiastically discussing visiting Westminster in person, but only after “we land on Mars.”...
You are cordially invited to join Westminster College’s undergraduate research team and Dr. David Schmidt for a virtual informative presentation on Shady the Dinosaur from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10,...
From left: Garrett Williamson, Dr. David Schmidt, Tim Burridge, ’21, Meredith Bolen, ’16, Colette Faiella, ’21, and Sophia Hessenkemper, ’23, were shocked at the discovery of the 3,000-pound, 7-foot-long triceratops skull on their summer...
A conversation with David Schmidt, Ph.D., brings to mind a line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when the iconic character says, “That belongs in a museum!” The associate professor of Biology and...
Westminster College recently updated its Environmental Science major, and with good reason. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Environmental Science is becoming one of the fastest-growing professions in the United States. The major...
Sawyer Young ’18 is the recipient of a Mizzou Kinder Fellowship through the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Young, who is pursuing a master’s degree in history at MU,...
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