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Monmouth College alumna helps New Orleans TV station with its live coverage of Hurricane Ida
While others were getting as far away from New Orleans as possible last week in advance of Hurricane Ida, Michelle Nutting headed into the teeth of the storm. The 2011 Monmouth College graduate, who's a news producer at St. Louis television station KS...
Sep 3, 2021, 11:18am EDT
Flanders still supporting Monmouth College after all these years
Nancy Forsyth Flanders '54 owes a debt of gratitude to her Monmouth College classmate Mary Fleschner Knobeloch. She was the student who "graciously" gave up her seat so that Forsyth could sit next to classmate Tom Flanders during daily chapel service, ...
Sep 2, 2021, 11:36am EDT
Cross Country Teams Start Season at Titan Opener
The Monmouth College men's and women's cross country teams started their seasons Wednesday night at Maxwell Park in Normal, Illinois at the Titan Opener. The meet was hosted by Illinois Wesleyan and both teams placed an individual in the top 10. On th...
Sep 1, 2021, 11:16pm EDT
Volleyball Sweeps LCU to Start Campaign
It had been 669 days since the Monmouth College volleyball team played at Glennie Gym. They took the court Wednesday night and stormed to a sweep of Lincoln Christian University 25-19, 25-18, 25-22 to move to 1-0 on the season. "The energy was so hig...
Sep 1, 2021, 11:02pm EDT
Women's Soccer Drops Opener in Double OT
The Monmouth College women's soccer team went north to Wisconsin-Platteville on Wednesday and suffered a season-opening 1-0 defeat in double overtime. Senior goalkeeper Quinn Cutler (Breese, Illinois) made a career-high 13 saves but the Pioneers scored...
Sep 1, 2021, 10:32pm EDT
Several alumni among Monmouth College's new faculty and staff
With the Monmouth College 2021-22 academic year now underway, three new faculty members are in their first semester of teaching at the College. They join a group of new staff members who started at Monmouth over the past few months. One of the new fa...
Sep 1, 2021, 12:32pm EDT
Monmouth College Latin American & Latino Film Festival, which begins Sept. 8, to explore immigration
In its third year, Monmouth College's Latin American & Latino Film Festival will explore issues of immigration. Organized by Monmouth professor Jennifer Thorndike, this fall's series is composed of five films, which will be shown throughout the semest...
Aug 31, 2021, 11:00am EDT
Summer research program gives Monmouth College students 'memorable, enriching learning experience'
Monmouth College freshman Emily Canterbury spoke in front of a full auditorium of college professors and her peers before even taking a formal class at the College. "That was terrifying," Canterbury confided to a fellow student after making her prese...
Aug 27, 2021, 11:11am EDT
U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos to speak on 'future of rural America' at Monmouth College's fifth annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture on Sept. 7
A politician with deep roots in Illinois agriculture will present Monmouth College's fifth annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture on Sept. 7. U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, who serves the 17th Congressional District in Illinois, will speak at 7 p.m. in the College's...
Aug 26, 2021, 2:37pm EDT
Exhibit from Monmouth College art collection now on display; reception is Aug. 27
More than six dozen works from Monmouth College's art collection, some of which have not been seen by the public in years, will be on display through Sept. 17. "Highlights from the Monmouth College Art Collection" is currently on display in the Len G....
Aug 25, 2021, 10:52am EDT