02 Oct 2024

Monmouth College Professors Bob Simmons, David Wright Share Hatch Award for Scholarship and Creative Work

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (October 2, 2024) — A pair of faculty members who were recently promoted to full professor shared Monmouth College's Hatch Award for Scholarship and Creative Work this year.

Classics professor Bob Simmons (left) and English professor David Wright (center) were the honorees.

01 Oct 2024

Janis Mars Wunderlich’s Exhibit of Sculptures, Paintings on Display in Monmouth College's Everett Gallery Through October 25

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (October 1, 2024) — Monmouth College professor Janis Mars Wunderlich has had her award-winning art featured at shows around the nation, but no travel is required to see her latest exhibit.

26 Sep 2024

Making Her Point: Mylee Hansen Part of Gridiron History for Fighting Scots with PAT

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 26, 2024) — When the Monmouth College football team scored its final touchdown in the fourth quarter of Saturday's 52-6 victory over Lawrence University, coach Chad Braun elected not to send out the Midwest Conference's reigning Special Teams Player of the Week, Cody Szelc, to tack on his seventh extra point of the day.

26 Sep 2024

Monmouth College's Homecoming Activities October 4-5 to Be Highlighted by Presidential Inauguration

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 26, 2024) — An event that occurs less than once a decade at Monmouth College will kick off a busy weekend of Homecoming activities on campus.

Dr Patricia Draves will be inaugurated as Monmouth's president on October 4. She is the fifteenth president in the 171-year of the college.

25 Sep 2024

“Pride and Prejudice” to Open Monmouth College's Theatre Season September 27-29

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 25, 2024) — The curtain will open on Monmouth College's 2024-25 theatre season September 27-29 when theatre professor Todd Quick directs an adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Wells Theater.

24 Sep 2024

Re-Dedication of “Brighter, Livelier” Stockdale Center a Highlight of Monmouth College's Family Weekend

By Barry McNamara

Pictured from left at the rededication ceremony are Cullen Marshall, Holly Tharp, President Draves, Carina Engst, Isabel Gimm, and Dean Karen Ogorzalek

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 24, 2024) — Nearly two full years after smoke damage from a fire caused its closing, Monmouth College's Stockdale Center is not only back, but it's better than ever.

19 Sep 2024

Historian Stacy Cordery Returns to Monmouth to Discuss Her Biography of Business Pioneer Elizabeth Arden

By Barry McNamara

Stacy Cordery speaks to a large audience at the Buchanan Center for the Arts in downtown Monmouth

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 19, 2024) — If pressed to condense the life of her most recent biographical subject into three words, historian and former Monmouth College professor Stacy Cordery said the phrase "Beauty is power" would be an apt description for Elizabeth Arden.

18 Sep 2024

Two September 26 Events at Monmouth College

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 18, 2024) — An award-winning history professor from Rutgers University will help Monmouth College kick off a series of events funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Earlier this year, Monmouth College received a $149,965 grant from the NEH to fund a three-year history project about west central Illinois, titled "Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning."

17 Sep 2024

Rededication of Stockdale Center to Highlight Monmouth College's Family Weekend, September 20-22

By Barry McNamara

The family of Cassandra Nolasco '26 (center) enjoyed the weekend's festivities last year

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 17, 2024) — A rededication of the Stockdale Center will be one of the highlights of Monmouth College's Family Weekend September 20-22, which annually brings to campus the parents, siblings, grandparents and other relatives of current students.

12 Sep 2024

Upcoming Events at Monmouth College, September 17-19

By Barry McNamara

Former Monmouth professor Stacy Cordery's latest book is her third major biography, joining works on Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Juliette Gordon Low

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (September 12, 2024) — The week of September 16 will be a busy one on the Monmouth College campus and in the community, including the return of a popular luncheon and a popular professor, as well as an annual event celebrating the Constitution.

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