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Jake Dacus Named New Monmouth Swimming & Diving Coach
Jake Dacus, whose work has helped collegiate swimmers earn national recognition, has been named Monmouth College swimming and diving coach. Dacus joins Monmouth after three seasons as the assistant men's and women's swim coach at Pacific Lutheran Univ...
May 13, 2021, 11:00am EDT

Memorial service for professor David Suda will be May 22 at Monmouth College
A memorial service for David Suda, emeritus Monmouth College professor of humanities, will be held at 3 p.m. May 22 in the College's Dahl Chapel. It will also be streamed live on Facebook. Suda, who died Feb. 27, taught at Monmouth from 1985-2011, acr...
May 13, 2021, 10:53am EDT

Scots Land Three on Tennis All-Conference Teams
The Midwest Conference announced the Men's and Women's All-Conference Tennis teams on Wednesday and three Monmouth College players were honored. Men's players Joseph Shie (Davenport, Iowa) and Andrew Shie (Davenport, Illinois) were named to the All-Sou...
May 12, 2021, 1:48pm EDT

Monmouth's Doyle says 'Commencement has started to look like Commencement' as College prepares for May 15-16 activities celebrating Class of 2021
When Director of Campus Events Ryan Doyle officially takes the reins of planning Monmouth College's Commencement next year, he may feel as though there are no new surprises that can be thrown his way. That's because Doyle was in charge of much of the ...
May 12, 2021, 11:13am EDT

Scots Softball Finishes Season with Split
The Monmouth College softball team finished the 2021 season with a double header split against Grinnell College on Tuesday. The Scots won game one 3-0 before dropping game two 9-1 in six innings. Monmouth finishes the season at 6-20, 5-11 in Midwest Co...
May 11, 2021, 8:36pm EDT

Monmouth College's new virtual reality equipment will be put to use in anatomy, kinesiology, chemistry
For professors and students who are more than ready to move on from classes that have anything to do with the phrase "virtual learning," Monmouth College chemistry professor Brad Sturgeon and some of his colleagues in the Center for Science and Busines...
May 11, 2021, 5:38pm EDT

Monmouth professor, three students sketch out proposal to help College become carbon neutral
Three Monmouth College environmental studies and sustainability majors and their professor have outlined a plan for how the campus could become carbon neutral in the next decade. Danielle Ito-LaBelle '21 of Chicago, Nyasaina Kwamboka '23 of Nairobi, K...
May 6, 2021, 11:46am EDT

Men's Lacrosse Wins First Ever Postseason Game
The Monmouth College Fighting Scots men's lacrosse team made history on Wednesday as they played in, and won, their first-ever postseason contest. The Scots (6-2) knocked off the Cornell Rams 14-6 in the Midwest Lacrosse Conference semifinals to advanc...
May 5, 2021, 8:19pm EDT

Student supervisor of Monmouth College's COVID testing among Highlander Leadership recipients
This year's recipient of Monmouth College's White and Crimson Leadership Award should be a familiar face to every member of the campus community. Megan Davis '21 of Chandler, Arizona, received the honor, which was part of last month's Highlander Leade...
May 5, 2021, 3:51pm EDT

Monmouth College's McCormick, Gibbs use time off from swim team to lead local Y squad
In the short time since transfer student Brooke McCormick '22 of Metamora, Illinois, became part of the Monmouth College swim team, there were moments in practice when her coach would bring an item to the team's attention. "Coach would always stop pra...
May 4, 2021, 5:59pm EDT