LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA (May 16, 2022) — Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, welcomed 1,971 new initiates from 78 universities during April 2022.

Students initiated into the Society must be sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate/professional students in the top 35% of their class, demonstrate leadership experience in at least one of the five pillars, and embrace the ODK ideals. Fewer than five percent of students on a campus are invited to join each year.

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (May 16, 2022) — The University of Nebraska-Lincoln conferred a record 3,612 degrees during commencement exercises May 13 and 14.

The 3,523 graduates are from 58 countries; 45 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; and more than 250 Nebraska communities.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (May 16, 2022) — Commencement weekend was a homecoming event for two of the featured speakers who helped celebrate Monmouth College's Class of 2022 on May 14-15.

Kunal Kapoor, a 1997 Monmouth graduate and chief executive officer of Morningstar Inc, delivered Sunday's Commencement address to the 172 seniors who gathered on the Wallace Hall Plaza.

COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS (May 16, 2022) — The Niabi Zoo is pleased and excited to announce having received a grant for $160,000 from the Roy J Carver charitable trust. The grant will help fund our new Painted dog exhibit, an important component in our Niabi Zoo Masterplan. “So many wonderful and exciting additions have been made, and are underway at the zoo,” said Director Lee Jackson.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (May 16, 2022) — Two Quad-Cities advertising and multimedia companies with over 60 years combined experience are teaming up to join forces.

Davenport-based advertising agency TAG, and Rock Island film and video production company Dphilms, are forming a partnership to navigate the regional media landscape in a rapidly changing digital era.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (May 16, 2022) — The Davenport Community School District is proud to announce our students are being recognized with the School Partner of the Year Award. ImpactLife nominated the Davenport Community School District for the ADRP award through America’s Blood Centers because of the incredible work students put into donating blood, even throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

PELLA, IOWA (May 13, 2022) — Rachel Daniels, of Geneseo, Illinois, was one of 34 Central College students inducted into the college's chapter of The National Society of Leadership and Success.

Central College of Pella, Iowa, is a private, four-year liberal-arts college. Central is known for its academic rigor and leadership formation and for cultivating diversity of thought and culture through the arts and sciences, professional fields of study, and experiential learning.

GRIMES, IOWA (May 13, 2022) — In one week, over 1,800 Special Olympics Iowa athletes and Unified partners will converge at Iowa State University for the Annual Special Olympics Iowa Summer Games, May 19 through 21.

CJ Bonifer pictured during the spring semester of his freshman year in 2019 with the poster he completed as an independent research project under communications studies professor Robert Hinck (right)

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (May 13, 2022) — An independent research project that Monmouth College senior CJ Bonifer of Columbia, Kentucky, completed three years ago proved to be an accurate glimpse into the future, although slightly off geographically.

GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA (May 12, 2022) -- Ragan Phillips, a Sophomore Interior Architecture and Design major from Reynolds, was among approximately 750 Bob Jones University students named to the Spring 2022 Dean's List.

The Dean's List recognizes students who earn a 3.00-3.74 grade-point average during the semester.

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