BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (July 1, 2025) — The following people recently were elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines.

Andrew Osborn of Moline (61265) at Western Illinois University

Karena Spiridonos of Davenport (52803) at Western Illinois University

MISSISSIPPI STATE, MISSISSIPPI (June 30, 2025) — Drew Micek, of Bettendorf, Iowa, was named to the Mississippi State University Spring 2025 Deans' List.

To be named to the Deans' List, a student must have achieved a grade-point average between 3.5 and 3.79, based on a 4.0 scale, while completing at least twelve semester hours of coursework with no incomplete grades or grades lower than a C.

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On their trip through England at the end of May, the Monmouth College group stopped at around three churches per day

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (June 30, 2025)  "For May will have no sluggardry at night/Season that pricks in every gentle heart/Awaking it from sleep, and bids it start." — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale

ADELPHI, MARYLAND (June 30, 2025) — Nearly 18,000 University of Maryland Global Campus students were named to the Dean's List for the spring 2025 term. To be eligible for the honor, a student must complete at least six credits during the term, earned a grade-point average of at least 3.5 for the term, and maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.5 at UMGC.

The following students from the area were recognized:

Ivory Mcmeans, Milan

Christopher Murie, Davenport

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (June 30, 2025) — Amelia Rursch of Reynolds, Illinois, was named to Rhodes College's Spring 2025 Honor Roll.

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS (June 27, 2025) — Jacob Rapps of Geneseo, Illinois, was named to the University of Arkansas Dean's List for the 2025 Spring Semester.

Monmouth College students Bronte de Zwart, Lizzy Durfee and Gianna Maughan have a lot to smile about, as they're enjoying the exciting opportunity to work on what physics professor Chris Fasano called "a world-class experiment at a world-class laboratory"

MISSISSIPPI STATE (June 27, 2025) — Jillian Kelly, of Muscatine, IA, is among approximately 3,500 students graduating from Mississippi State University in spring 2025, with commencement in May.

Kelly received the Bachelor of Music Education Summa Cum Laude from MSU's College of Education.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (June 27, 2025) — Sophia Mucciarone of Davenport, Iowa, was recently elected to membership into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society, at Iowa State University.

BUFFALO, NEW YORK (June 27, 2025) -- Kailey Detloff of Moline, Illinois, has been named to the University at Buffalo's spring 2025 Dean's List.

UB is New York State's flagship university and the largest and most comprehensive institution in the State University of New York system.

Detloff was among 5,667 students named to UB's spring 2025 Dean's List.

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