Nodaway County is a county located in the northwest part of Missouri. As of the 2020 census,the population was 21,241. Its county seat is Maryville. The county was organized February 14,1845 and is named for the Nodaway River. It is the largest in area of the counties added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase and the fourth-largest county by area in Missouri.
Maryville is a city and county seat of Nodaway County,Missouri,United States. Located in the "Missouri Point" region,As of the 2020 census,the city population was 10,633. Maryville is home to Northwest Missouri State University and Northwest Technical School. Maryville is the second largest city wholly within the boundaries of the 1836 Platte Purchase which expanded Missouri's borders into former Indian Territory in northwest Missouri.
The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university in Kansas City,Missouri. UMKC is part of the University of Missouri System and has a medical school. As of 2020,the university's enrollment exceeded 16,000 students. It is the largest university and third largest college in the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
The University of Missouri System is an American state university system providing centralized administration for four universities,a health care system,an extension program,and ten research and technology parks. Nearly 70,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses. The health care system operates several hospitals and clinics in central Missouri,while the extension program provides distance learning and other educational initiatives statewide.
Missouri State University,formerly Southwest Missouri State University,is a public university in Springfield,Missouri. Founded in 1905 as the Fourth District Normal School,it is the state's second largest university by enrollment,with an enrollment of 23,307 at its main campus in the fall semester of 2022. The school also operates a campus in West Plains,Missouri offering associate degrees,which had an enrollment of 1,744 in the fall semester of 2022. A bachelor's degree in business is offered at Liaoning Normal University in China. The university also operates a fruit research station in Mountain Grove,Missouri and a Department of Defense and Strategic Studies program in Fairfax,Virginia.
Jackson State University is a public historically black research university in Jackson,Mississippi. It is one of the largest HBCUs in the United States and the fourth largest university in Mississippi in terms of student enrollment. The university is a member of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
Northwest Missouri State University is a public university in Maryville,Missouri. It has an enrollment of about 8,505 students. Founded in 1905 as a teachers college,its campus is based on the design for Forest Park at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and is the official Missouri State Arboretum. The school is governed by a state-appointed Board of Regents and headed by Interim President Clarence Green.
Pittsburg State University is a public university in Pittsburg,Kansas,United States. It enrolls approximately 7,400 students and is a member of the Kansas Board of Regents.
The Embassy of Canada in Washington,D.C. is Canada's main diplomatic mission to the United States. The embassy building designed by Arthur Erickson and opened in 1989 is located at 501 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest,Washington,D.C.,between the United States Capitol and the White House,just north of the National Gallery of Art. In addition to its diplomatic role,the embassy provides consular services for Delaware,Washington,D.C.,Maryland,Virginia,and West Virginia. It also hosts a Trade Commissioner Service office,which has Maryland,Washington,D.C.,Virginia,and West Virginia as its responsibilities.
Maryville High School is the public high school for Maryville,Missouri. It is the only institution to have the Spoofhound for a mascot. It is a Missouri State High School Activities Association Class III school. The present high school building on the southwest side of Maryville opened in the 1965-66 school year.
Founded in 2001,the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a member-based,501(c)(3) national non-profit organization that unites finance,policy and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy.
Bruce Allen Harrell is an American politician and attorney serving as the 57th and current mayor of Seattle,Washington. He was a member of the Seattle City Council from 2008 to 2020. From 2016 to 2020,he was president of the city council. He was acting mayor of Seattle from September 13 to 18,2017. He was elected mayor in his own right in the 2021 Seattle mayoral election,becoming the second Black mayor since Norm Rice,and the first African-Asian American mayor of the city.
John Jasinski is the interim provost for Missouri State University and was the 10th university president of Northwest Missouri State University.
Dean L. Hubbard is an American academic administrator. He was the president of Northwest Missouri State University from 1984 until 2009—the longest of any president in the school's history.
Wilbur Neil "Sparky" Stalcup was an American basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Northwest Missouri State Teacher's College—now known as Northwest Missouri State University—from 1933 to 1943 and at the University of Missouri from 1946 to 1962,compiling a career college basketball record of 332–236. Stalcup was also the athletic director at Missouri from 1971 until his death in 1972.
The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) is an organization mostly of U.S. universities located in metropolitan areas. CUMU was founded in 1989 by 10 university presidents gathered at Wright State University. CUMU is headquartered at Towson University in Towson,Maryland.
Dean L. Bresciani is the former president of North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo,North Dakota. He served from 2010 to 2022.
Scott Bostwick was an American football player and coach. He served as the defensive coordinator at Northwest Missouri State University from 1994 to 2010 under head coach Mel Tjeerdsma,during which time the Bearcats captured three NCAA Division II Football Championships,in 1998,1999,and 2009. In 2007,Bostwick was named the AFCA Division II Assistant Coach of the Year in 2007. He succeeded Tjeerdsma as head coach following the 2010 season,but died of a heart attack the following June.
Mun Young Choi is an American academic. He currently serves as Chancellor of the University of Missouri and President of the University of Missouri System. Prior to his appointment at Missouri he was Provost &Executive Vice President at the University of Connecticut. He has also taught at Drexel University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He lives in Columbia,Missouri.
Ryan Hawkins is an American professional basketball player for Giorgio Tesi Group Pistoia of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats and the Creighton Bluejays.
