ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (March 20, 2024) — Augustana College announces the selection of Lindsay Adolphs as the assistant vice president for CORE and community-engaged learning. Adolphs, who now serves as executive director for academic and career planning at St Ambrose University, will join the college April 15.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 20, 2024) — After their international tour in Greece during Monmouth College's spring break, the Chamber Winds, Chorale and Chamber Choir are back on campus.

The three ensembles will present a "home concert" at 7:30PM, March 23, in the Kasch Performance Hall of Dahl Chapel and Auditorium, performing music from their tour. The event is free and open to the public.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 19, 2024) It's not a foolproof system, but one of the indicators of a solid economy is an automobile dealership with a full lot, according to retired Monmouth College business professor Ken McMillan.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 19, 2024) — In January, harsh weather prevented the Rev Charles Burton from traveling to Monmouth College from St Louis to give the keynote talk for the school's celebration of the life and impact of the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

The 1992 Monmouth graduate will instead present his talk at 7PM, March 26, in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. Titled "From Equality to Equity: A Dream Redefined," the talk is free and open to the public.

Press spokesperson Jaclyn Driscoll, a 2012 Monmouth graduate, confers with Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch during another busy day in Springfield

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (March 18, 2024) — Carlie Vance of Davenport, Iowa, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Vance was initiated at Western Illinois University.

IOWA CITY, IOWA (March 15, 2024) — To celebrate the ingenuity, resilience, and innovation of student researchers at the University of Iowa, the Office of the Vice President for Research is again sponsoring the Dare to Discover campaign. The annual program this year highlights the work of eighty undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc students who are making waves in a wide variety of disciplines across the academic spectrum.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 11, 2024) When Eric Hanson ('98) drives back to his former community of Normal, Illinois, he passes by the state-of-the-art facility for electric-vehicle manufacturer Rivian.

He remembers his time as Normal's assistant city manager, when he and his team helped save a dilapidated warehouse that had sat unused for fifteen years and was targeted for demolition. It's now a one-million square-foot facility for Rivian.

WAVERLY, IOWA (March 11, 2024) — Mia Lopez presented her summer research, "Polymer-based Gene/Drug Delivery Nanoplatforms for Pancreatic Cancer," at the annual Iowa Illinois Nebraska STEM Partnership for Innovation in Research and Education (IINspire) conference at Iowa State University in Ames.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (March 11, 2024) — As part of its mission to prepare career-ready students through transformational community engagement opportunities, Augustana College and the Augustana Prison Education Program (APEP) will host a re-entry simulation Wednesday, March 13.

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