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...
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,...
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...
Mikaela Ruga ’16 ΑΓΔ remembers wandering off during preschool recess to dig holes and pick through pea gravel in search of tiny seashells and interesting rocks, stuffing the treasures in her pockets. It wasn’t until Ruga took...
Environmental Science majors Leticia Ferreira ’19 and Rebecca Roth ’19 were both like Indiana Jones to local schoolchildren last week. Ferreira and Roth visited St. Peter Catholic School on March 13 with fossils, rocks,...
Many great success stories will walk across the stage when the Class of 2018 receives diplomas at commencement exercises, but one of the most inspiring is the story of ChristiAna Dunham from St. Louis,...
Climate change will be one of the dominant topics at this year’s 2017 Hancock Symposium, being held September 20-21 on the Westminster College campus, when one of the nation’s most prominent experts in the field...
Along a meandering stream on a wide-open plain, a herd of massive, rhinocerous-like creatures bend down to drink. The size of African elephants and with dual, side-by-side horns protruding from their snouts, the brontotheres...
Students Mengxi Tan ’16, Laura Wiltshire ’16, and Mikaela Ruga ’16 (above, from left to right) were recently selected to present their research on the taxa of fossil teeth and the clay mineralogy of...
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