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Scots Earns ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award

The Monmouth College baseball team was honored Wednesday by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) with their eighth consecutive Team Academic Excellence Award. The 2025-26 ABCA Team Academic Excellence Awards are presented by Sports Attack a...

Jul 22, 2026, 11:55am EDT

DOC KIEFT TALKS: Terra Stephens '27, whose research was on Alzheimer's plaque disruptors, gestures to one of his slides during his July 15 presentation.

Doc Kieft summer research program sets Monmouth College's students apart

Most college students would have a difficult time defining such scientific terms as acetylcholinesterase, centrifugation and spectrophotometrically. For a group of nine Monmouth College students, though, the meaning of those words have been etched into...

Jul 21, 2026, 9:46am EDT

Track & Field Teams Earn Individual & Team Academic Honors

The Monmouth College track and field teams both earned All-Academic Team status from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) this week. In addition, four individuals earned All-Academic Athlete status. The Monmouth wom...

Jul 20, 2026, 3:14pm EDT

Scots Rack Up Nearly 200 MWC All-Academic Honors

Monmouth College had 161 student-athletes, representing 18 sports, named Midwest Conference Academic All-Conference on Wednesday. The Scots had 29 student-athletes earn Academic All-Conference in multiple sports for the Midwest Conference, resulting in...

Jul 15, 2026, 11:18am EDT

CLASS OF 2025: Four of the graduates continued their schooling at Illinois State University, including Izzy Gimm (left), while four began positions at Monmouth College (including Jackson Bergren (second from right). Also pictured are Paige Bergschneider and Zane Beebe.

Monmouth College hits 98% mark on Class of 2025's First Destination report

Marnie Steach, Monmouth College's executive director of career readiness, advising and student success, just completed a 14-year professional stint at her alma mater. But before she went, Steach had one last item of good news to announce. The Monmout...

Jul 6, 2026, 5:00pm EDT

Swim Teams Named CSCAA All-Scholar

Both of the Monmouth College swimming teams again earned Scholar All-America status from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for the spring 2026 semester. To qualify, teams had to post at least a 3.0 GPA for the sprin...

Jul 2, 2026, 10:37am EDT

HANDS-ON LEARNING: Tate is pictured in May with some of the Harding students who participated in her capstone project.

First-rate project for second grade students led by Monmouth senior Cally Tate

Call it Cally's community capstone clearly characterizing college's culture of connection. That would be Monmouth College student Cally Tate, who In May graduated summa cum laude with a degree in environmental studies and a minor in peace and justice...

Jun 29, 2026, 3:54pm EDT

Track & Field Earns Eight CSC Academic All-District Honors

The Monmouth College track and field teams had eight student-athletes named Division III Academic All-District by College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) this week. To qualify for CSC Academic All-District, student-athletes must be at least soph...

Jun 24, 2026, 12:43pm EDT

'URBANFEST': William Urban, right, is presented with a copy of Urbanfest, a book published in his honor, by co-editors Jeff Rankin, left, and Thomas Sienkewicz, center.

William Urban, longtime Monmouth professor, honored in newly published tribute book

A collection of scholarly writings honoring longtime Monmouth College professor William L. Urban has been published following more than two years of planning, writing and editing. Urban, who retired in 2015 as the Lee L. Morgan Professor of History an...

Jun 23, 2026, 12:48pm EDT

'THE EYE' WAS A MUST SEE: When in the big city, tourists have to check out "The London Eye," formerly known as The Millennium Wheel. Monmouth's group did just that on the final full day of their time abroad.

Scots in the highlands: Monmouth College group enjoys nine-day UK adventure

Two years ago, Monmouth College professors Audra Goach and David Wright joined forces to provide a memorable experience for the annual summer SOFIA program, creating an interdisciplinary escape room that blended chemistry and English through forensic s...

Jun 12, 2026, 11:07am EDT

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