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Men's Hoops Fall to Lawrence Saturday
The Monmouth College men's basketball team played their first game since December 31, falling at home to Lawrence University 78-51 on Saturday afternoon. The game starts a stretch of four games in eight days as the Fighting Scots fall to 2-10 overall, ...
Jan 22, 2022, 6:59pm EST
Trust gift establishes Monmouth College's Marion Austin Jones Endowed Professorship in Theatre
Family ties that go back more than a century are part of the impetus behind a new endowed professorship at Monmouth College. Through a trust gift from their late father, Addison Jones, brothers Austin Jones and David Jones have established the Marion ...
Jan 20, 2022, 5:36pm EST
Central Illinois Native and Monmouth Alum Hired as Baseball Assistant Coach
Monmouth College alum Jake Starkey already has his name all over the Fighting Scots baseball record books and now he's added the title of full-time assistant coach for his alma mater. Starkey, a 2019 Monmouth College graduate, joined the staff in Dece...
Jan 20, 2022, 2:38pm EST
Monmouth College's Gabriela Madu makes singing, acting history at regional theatre festival
Judges at this month's Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival loved Monmouth College junior Gabriela Madu. That was the theatre department's major takeaway from the Kennedy Center's Region 3 festival, where Madu made history, not once, but t...
Jan 19, 2022, 5:35pm EST
Former Monmouth Track Star Kenzie Baker Named Assistant Coach
Former Monmouth College All-American Kenzie Baker has been hired as a full-time Fighting Scots track and field assistant coach. Baker, a native of Aledo, Illinois, graduated from Monmouth in May 2021 and stared with the Scots in December. Baker was an...
Jan 19, 2022, 2:42pm EST
Monmouth College 'Light This Candle' Campaign Reaches $70.4 Million
With 11 months remaining, the Monmouth College Light This Candle Campaign has raised more than 94% of its $75 million goal. The Campaign, which ends Dec. 31, has raised more than $70.4 million. "I am quite pleased with the Campaign reaching the $70 m...
Jan 19, 2022, 4:00am EST
Monmouth College group spends first days of 2022 in 'fabulous' country of El Salvador
Folks around Monmouth spent Jan. 1 watching bowl games, shoveling eight inches of snow and, perhaps, sleeping in after a rockin' New Year's Eve. A group from Monmouth College celebrated the first day of 2022 in a much more adventurous fashion, traveli...
Jan 17, 2022, 12:28pm EST
Monmouth College to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with talk about 'Sowing Seeds of Legacy'
Monmouth College will commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a talk by alumnus Ed Wimp '12 at noon on Jan. 17 in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. The title of Wimp's talk is "Sowing Seeds of Legacy." It was originally scheduled to be given ...
Jan 14, 2022, 3:10pm EST
Illinois Native Brady Hunt Named Monmouth College Cross Country Head Coach
Illinois native Brady Hunt has been named the new Monmouth College men's and women's head cross country coach and he will also work as an assistant coach on the men's and women's track and field teams. Hunt comes to the Fighting Scots after working th...
Jan 13, 2022, 11:37am EST
Exhibition by professor Janis Wunderlich now on display at Monmouth College
Award-winning Monmouth College professor and artist Janis Wunderlich is featured in the current display in the Len G. Everett Gallery in the College's Hewes Library. Titled "Emergence," her exhibition will run through Feb. 11. On that final day, there...
Jan 10, 2022, 6:02pm EST