BETTENDORF, IOWA (March 24, 2020) — Rivermont Collegiate Preschool Teacher, Cassaundra Dunbridge has been awarded the National Geographic Educator Certification. The certification is not easy to achieve; less than 5000 people worldwide per seasonal cohort are accepted into the program. She applied for the summer cohort this past

December but was surprised to be invited to the winter cohort.

FAYETTE, IOWA (March 20, 2020) — Upper Iowa University is pleased to announce the names of its December 2019 graduates.The honorees included:

De Witt, IA — Kelci Anderson

Davenport, IA — Amelia Bailey

Le Claire, IA — David Brown

Davenport, IA — Chante Buckner

Long Grove, IA — Sara Cawiezell

Davenport, IA — Harriette Clarke

Bettendorf, IA — Ryan Cruise

Davenport, IA — Jessica Ebener

Bettendorf, IA — Clara Hayward

FAYETTE, IOWA (March 20, 2020) — Upper Iowa University is pleased to announce the names of its October 2019 graduates. The honorees include:

Eldridge, IA — Elizabeth Harris

Bettendorf, IA — Jeffery Haynes

Bettendorf, IA — Kara Holmes

Bettendorf, IA — Karla Mitchell

Eldridge, IA — Kyle Rehn

Bettendorf, IA — Jeremy Salsberry

Davenport, IA — Brooke Smith

DAVENPORT, IOWA (March 18, 2020) — The following students were accepted for enrollment for the spring 2020 trimester in the Bachelor of Science, General Science program at Palmer College of Chiropractic's Main campus in Davenport, Iowa.

Kyleigh Adams of Davenport, IA

Emily Barber of Davenport, IA

Kaden Benson of Davenport, IA

Dillon Berry of Davenport, IA

Rachel Best of Davenport, IA

Ashley Borunda of Bettendorf, IA

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (March 13, 2020) — After careful consideration, including guidance from national and local resources and the Rock Island County Health Department, we have made the difficult decision to begin spring break at the end of classes today. Adding next week to our spring break schedule extends spring break to two weeks. 

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (March 13, 2020) — 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.

Joe Field of Bettendorf (52722) at The Citadel

Kimberly Rodriguez of Muscatine (52761) at Southern Virginia University

ST LOUIS, MISSOURI (March 10, 2020) — The following students have been named to the dean's list for the fall 2019 semester at Washington University in St Louis:

HOMETOWN, STATE; ZIP CODE, NAME, STATUS, SCHOOL, TO QUALIFY

APPLETON, WISCONSIN (March 10, 2020) — Nick Fahrenkrug of Davenport, Iowa, performed in "The Marriage of Figaro," a comic opera staged March 5-8 by the Lawrence Conservatory's Opera Theatre department. The production was presented over four days in Stansbury Theater at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. It featured a cast of 11, plus stage and technical crews, two rehearsal pianists, a student pit orchestra, and a 14-member chorus.

 

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (March 5/2020) — For an undergrad, declaring your major in college is a milestone event. For the first time ever, 10 Augustana students have officially declared majors in data analytics, along with 40 students declaring minors.

BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS (March 5, 2020) — Illinois Wesleyan University's Dean's List for the fall semester of the 2019-20 academic year consisted of 667 students from 27 states and 15 countries. The following local students made the list:

Adam Cady, of Rock Island, Illinois, a senior majoring in English — Literature.

Heather Dietrich, of Geneseo, Illinois, a sophomore majoring in Nursing.

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