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.

10 Jun 2024

Partnership Between Monmouth College, Illinois Regional Office of Education N° 33, Focused on Helping More Students Attend College

By Barry McNamara

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 10, 2024) — The Illinois Regional Office of Education N° 33 and Monmouth College have announced a new partnership to better serve students in Henderson, Knox, Mercer, and Warren counties.

The goal of the partnership — which includes all educational institutions in the region — is to provide students a seamless path from K-12 to college, according to Regional Office of Education N° 33 Superintendent Jodi Scott.

07 Jun 2024

Liberal Arts Farming: Monmouth College's Educational Farm and Garden Offers Life Lessons to Crew, Area Schoolchildren

By Barry McNamara

Elijah Perry ('26) tends to a chore at the Monmouth College Educational Farm

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 7, 2024) — School may be out for the summer, but that doesn't mean questions like the following ever go away. Complete the following sentence: The Monmouth College Educational Farm and Garden is a) a laboratory, b) a classroom; c) a canvas; or d) all of the above.

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