MOSOunds: Recent Episodes
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Featuring interviews with students, faculty and staff and a variety of different topics, “MOSOunds” is a short-form podcast in which we bring the campus to you.
On this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Michael Garoutte to learn about the awards – now in their 30th year – which celebrate campus leadership, as well as senior Jordan Gibson, who was named the 2021 Leader of the Year.
As the director of ticketing operations and event management, Terrence Scott is a familiar face at games and other athletic events. You might also recognize him as a former member of the Lions football team, having played as a defensive back from 2006-10. But if you tuned in to the university’s virtual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration this year, you would have seen and heard another side of Terrence, who provided live and pre-recorded music for the event. A multi-instrumentalist since a young age, he has recorded two EP’s of his praise music in the last few years, with a third on the way this summer. In this episode of “MOSOunds,” we check in with Terrence to talk about his music and his personal journey, where he finds inspiration and what’s ahead.
The Project Stay program recently held a special celebration to recognize the many first-generation college students attending Missouri Southern.
It marked the fourth national celebration and the second year that it has been observed at MSSU.
On this episode of “MOSOunds,” we’re joined by Dr. Debbie Fort, director of Project Stay, and senior nursing major Taylor Boyett to talk about how Missouri Southern works to support those students who are the first in their family to attend college.
“13 Midnights” – a new anthology film featuring 13 ghostly stories – recently made its debut on Amazon Prime.
The film, which features actors sharing these stories directly with you, the viewer, is the creation of Steve Scearcy, a 1972 graduate of Missouri Southern State University who now lives in Kansas City.
Filmed in black and white, a cast of regional actors and actresses share the collected stories … such as a creepy reflection that dwells in a barroom mirror, piano lessons that continue to haunt a man years later, and a monster that lives under the bed. Scearcy himself appears in the film, popping in and out as a narrator between some of the segments to address the audience.
In this episode of “MOSOunds,” Scearcy talks about “13 Midnights” as well as his time at Missouri Southern. For more information about the film, click here.
Members of the Lion Pride Marching Band spent a recent Friday afternoon performing for Freeman employees and patients.
Don Linn, director of bands at Missouri Southern, says the idea of creating community outreach pep bands came as his department began grappling with the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It became clear to us that we wouldn’t necessarily have the opportunity to play at football games or even have parades like we normally do,” he says. “So how do you get music to people?”
In this episode of “MOSOunds,” we spend a little time with the band to learn how they’re adapting to the situation. Listen below to learn more about the band’s plans this fall and to hear some of their performance.
On this edition of MOSOunds, we’ll hear from Dr. Sharlow about the annual concert and let you enjoy some of the performances from this year’s event, held Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.
In this episode of MOSOunds, we’ll learn more about the band, the debut album they’re currently prepping and why their passion for Mexican food is a recurring theme.
Today, we will talk to Dr. Zak Watson, associate professor of English and chair of the English and Philosophy Department at Missouri Southern State University and to Dr. Amy Gates, assistant professor of English. We will also be hearing from Elisa Bryant, a Development Officer at MSSU.
The book Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was written in 1816, by Mary Shelley and published two years later.
In late August and early September of 2017 Hurricane Harvey hit the south Texas coast with a vengeance. Coming in at Category 4 intensity, the storm killed 80 people in the United States and drove thousands from their homes. Over 300,000 people were left without power.
Missouri Southern sophomore Social Work major Amanda Hosp was one of the volunteers who rushed to the scene. She worked in an American Red Cross shelter in Austin, Texas. She began making plans to assist in the relief effort before the storm even hit land.
Fall 2017 is the Korea Semester at Missouri Southern State University. In coming weeks, a wide variety of lectures, performances, films and other events will focus on the Korean culture.
In the first episode of “MOSOunds” – a new podcast from Missouri Southern – we take a look at the university’s “Alma Mater.”
The brief, four-line song was written by a group of Joplin Junior College students and made its debut in 1939. Lee Elliff Pound, director of the Alumni Association, shares a bit about its history, while Dr. Rick Espinosa discusses updating the piece via a new arrangement for the athletic band.