24 Jul 2024

Monmouth Municipal Band, Nauvoo Pipe Band to Perform Free Concert at Monmouth College's 's Wallace Hall Plaza

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (July 24, 2024) — Area residents will have an opportunity to relax at an outdoor summer evening band concert this Sunday, July 28, at Monmouth College's Wallace Hall Plaza.

The Monmouth Municipal Band and the widely acclaimed Nauvoo Pageant Bagpipe Band will come together to perform at 6:30PM at the Monmouth College Trubeck Amphitheater. The concert, which will last for about an hour, is free and open to the public.

23 Jul 2024

“Gold Medal” Review for Monmouth College's First Ancient Olympics Workshop for US Teachers

By Barry McNamara

Monmouth art professor Janis Wunderlich, who specializes in ceramics, lent a hand to the proceedings, which included making the pottery piece (also pictured)

09 Jul 2024

Monmouth College Faculty, Staff Offer Titles That Make Olympics, an American Pastime, More Enjoyable

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (July 9, 2024) — In preparation for the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, which will be held July 26-August 11 in Paris, I asked several Monmouth College employees for help in crafting a reading list that can enhance watching the summer games.

What follows is a list of some of their recommended Olympic-themed books, as well as a few titles that pay tribute to America's boys of summer.

02 Jul 2024

Megan McGruder Named Monmouth College's Director of Student Well-Being

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (July 2, 2024) — Beginning July 15, Monmouth College will have a new director of student well-being.

Licensed clinical professional counselor Megan McGruder has been named to the position that helps support Monmouth students' mental-health needs. She's spent the past nine years in a related role at nearby Knox College.

25 Jun 2024

Dusty Scott ('03) Dives into the Details of Creating Monmouth College President Clarence Wyatt's Official Portrait

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 25, 2024) — There's something about the final semester that brings out the best in Dusty Scott.

As a Monmouth College senior in 2003, Scott was coming to terms with the reality that he might graduate in a few weeks without a girlfriend. But then he and his friend, junior Autumn McGee ('04), began dating during the spring semester, and the couple has been married since 2006.

24 Jun 2024

Work by Monmouth Alumnae, Students Part of International Women in Engineering Day on June 23

By Barry McNamara

Noelle Faulk works on an engineering project on the roof of Monmouth College's Center for Science and Business

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 24, 2024) — #Enhancedbyengineering.

That was the theme of this year's International Women in Engineering Day. The June 23 observance promoted the work that women engineers across the globe are doing.

And "across the globe" very much includes the Monmouth College community.

24 Jun 2024

A Presidential Retrospective: Clarence Wyatt Looks Back on His Decade at Monmouth College

By Barry McNamara

President Clarence Wyatt and First Lady Lobie Stone make their way up the Wallace Hall sidewalk at the opening of the College's 167th Commencement Exercises on May 19. In the background is one of the Commencement speakers, actress Sigourney Weaver

18 Jun 2024

Retiring Monmouth College professor Brad Sturgeon Made Contributions in Teaching, Service, Scholarship

By Barry McNamara

Coffee, the Bahamas, and casual comfort were regular features of Brad Sturgeon's seventeen-year career as a Monmouth College chemistry professor. He's shown here before his final faculty colloquium talk in March

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 18, 2024) — Established in 2004, Monmouth College's Hatch Awards recognize outstanding work by its faculty in the areas of teaching, scholarship, and service.

13 Jun 2024

Monmouth College Student Kailyn Gore Honored as Newman Civic Fellow for Commitment to Solving Public Problems

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 13, 2024) — An "exemplary student and innovative leader" from Monmouth College is among the students nationwide recognized as a 2024-25 Campus Compact Newman Civic Fellow.

Kailyn Gore ('26) of Marlton, New Jersey, received the honor after being nominated by Monmouth President Clarence Wyatt.

11 Jun 2024

New Issue of Monmouth's Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research Explores Diverse Range of Disciplines, Including Shortage of Teachers in Illinois

By Barry McNamara

For the first time, physics professor Michael Solontoi served as the coordinating advisor for the Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 11, 2024) — The Illinois educator shortage — an issue that Monmouth College is taking an active role in trying to solve — is just one of the topics addressed in the new edition of the College's Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research, which is now available in print.

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