ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (03/28/2024) — Augustana College junior Erik Bergren, a Economics, Public Health major from Geneseo (61254), has been awarded the Nils Hasselmo Award for Academic Pursuit.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 28, 2024) — Caleb Toberman navigated a potential travel snafu to have one of the more memorable spring breaks for a Monmouth College student.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (March 28, 2024) — The following people recently were initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Amanda Aldridge of Davenport (52806) at Western Illinois University.

Amanda Buford of Davenport (52806) at Western Illinois University.

John Nonnenmann of Milan (61264) at Western Illinois University.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 27, 2024) — Patricia Draves has been named the fifteenth president of Monmouth College.

A veteran higher education leader and former chemistry professor at Monmouth, Draves was unanimously chosen president by the Monmouth College Board of Trustees after an extensive national search. Since 2017, Draves has served as president of Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (March 27, 2024) — Augustana College senior Celeaciya Olvera, a Communication Studies; Multimedia Journalism and Mass Communication; Theatre — Performance major from East Moline, Illinois (61244), was nominated to submit a “More Than I Imagined” profile by Dr Lucy Burgchardt, assistant professor, communication studies.

James Caprio ('24), Jalane Tsague ('25), Sally Boutaleb ('24), and Genevieve Ryan ('26) outside of Arnold Hall at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado

DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 27, 2024) — The following students were named to the 2023 fall trimester Dean's List at Palmer College of Chiropractic's Main Campus in Davenport, Iowa.

Kaitlyn Andresen of Davenport

Ryan Bachman of Davenport

Cole Baskerville of Davenport

Alexis Baumgarn of Davenport

Kara Criss of Davenport

Benjamin Gilks of Davenport

Jeremy Gonzalez of Davenport

Mariah Grawe of Taylor Ridge

Nathan Holm of Eldridge

DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 26, 2024) — The following students were accepted for enrollment for the 2024 spring trimester in the Doctor of Chiropractic degree program at Palmer College of Chiropractic's Main Campus in Davenport, Iowa.

Christine Drayer of Le Claire

Tristan Emmett of Davenport

Nathan Euler of Davenport

Alec Lank of Bettendorf

Anna MacDonald of Eldridge

James Pace of Davenport

James Rivera Heredia of Davenport

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 25, 2024) — Monmouth College and Monmouth's Midwest Bank change presidents at the rate of roughly once per decade.

The new president of the latter institution is a graduate of the former, as Aaron Jensen ('89) took over on January 1.

A veteran of nearly forty years in banking, Jensen is Midwest's 18th president in its 154-year history. His alma mater will soon name its fifteenth president since its founding in 1853.

The Monmouth students are pictured at the theater at Epidaurus, which music professor Justin Swearinger said had amazing acoustics

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (March 22, 2024) — Spring break is in the rearview mirror at Monmouth College, and by now, most of the campus knows that three music ensembles — the Chorale, the Chamber Choir and the Chamber Winds — traveled to Greece.

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