MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 5, 2024) — While discussing the outlook for Monmouth College choral ensembles in the coming year, music professor Tim Pahel sounded a bit like a Fighting Scots coach."We only lost six members to graduation and we have around fifteen new members coming in," said Pahel, who directs the Monmouth Chorale and Chamber Choir. "We haven't been over forty members since pre-pandemic.

Paying homage to the beloved Monmouth chemistry professor Richard "Doc" Kieft, the students who gave undergraduate research talks July 18 in the Pattee Auditorium are pictured with their faculty who guided them on their projects.

Child actors were part of the cast for last year's joint production of Peter Pan, and Monmouth College professor Vanessa Campagna hopes a good number of children will also be a part of Cinderella, which she'll direct next April to close the college's 2024-25 theatre season

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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