BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (April 19, 2022) — Anania Williams from Davenport, Iowa (52803), participated in Emerson Stage's production of Into the Woods. The musical follows the story of fairytales, misfortunes, and the consequences of decisions. The show was performed in the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theater on April 14 and 16.

Williams is majoring in Musical Theatre and is a member of the Class of 2022.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (April 19, 2022) — Although spring has not come early this year in the Midwest, Monmouth College is early with a major milestone. The College has already passed the $75 million goal of its Light This Candle Campaign, exceeding that figure 8 1/2 months ahead of the Campaign's final day.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (April 19, 2022) — Alexandra Caijgal of Davenport, Iowa, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most-selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Caijgal was initiated at United States Military Academy.

BETTENDORF, IOWA (April 18, 2022) — A local philanthropist has issued a $100,000 challenge to our community, to help ensure more Quad Cities kids enter kindergarten with the skills they need to succeed.

Heidi Huiskamp Collins announced her pledge of $100,000 as a match to any donation supporting Born Learning Academies for kindergarten readiness through June 30.

PELLA, IOWA (April 18, 2022) — Central College student Allison Miller works as an intern during the Spring 2022 semester at PACE Alliance, of Pella. Miller is from Geneseo, Illinois, and in the Central Class of 2024.

Monmouth College's Classics Day V earned recognition as the outstanding promotional activity of the year. Above, classics professor Bob Simmons speaks at the October 2 event. Also pictured are Olivia Matlock (to Simmons' immediate left), Brie Stumbo (in blue) and Todd Fowler (far right)

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (April 14, 2022) — It was an instant classic.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (April 13, 2022) -- Benjamin Slavens of Bettendorf, Iowa, has been named to the winter 2022 quarter Dean's List at Palmer College of Chiropractic's Florida campus in Port Orange, Florida.

LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA (April 13, 2022) — Emma Horsfield, a native of Bettendorf, Iowa, was recently initiated into the Emory University Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. The Society welcomed 578 new initiates from 25 universities during March 2022.

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (April 12, 2022) — Andrew Simonson of Dewitt, Iowa, is among the University of Utah's largest-ever cohort of graduate students recognized in the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). Simonson, who is studying chemical engineering and earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Utah, received a GRFP award.

In total, twenty University students received GRFP awards and eleven received honorable mentions.

WAVERLY, IOWA (April 12, 2022) — Georgia Nissen, of Eldridge, Iowa, was one of three Wartburg College students inducted into the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society in April.

Sigma Pi Sigma was founded in 1921 to honor outstanding scholarship in physics, to encourage interest in physics at all levels, and to promote an attitude of service in its members. More than 90,000 scholars have been inducted into the honor society.

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