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Scots Fall at Lawrence on Saturday
The Monmouth College men's basketball team lost at last place Lawrence on Saturday afternoon, 66-49. The Scots (11-7, 5-4) fell behind early and never caught up in their first conference road loss of the season. Lawrence took a 10-0 lead as the Fighti...
Jan 20, 2024, 4:06pm EST
Monmouth College receives $149,965 grant from National Endowment for the Humanities to fund 'Resituating the Humanities in Place-Based Learning' project
Monmouth College has been awarded a $149,965 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund a three-year history project about west central Illinois. "This place-based curricula project will be unique by moving beyond the study of a par...
Jan 19, 2024, 11:01am EST
Scots Tie Season-High in Points but Fall to Pioneers
The Monmouth College women's basketball team tied a season-high with 74 points but ultimately fell to Grinnell 82-74 on Wednesday night. The Scots put four players in double figures as Jadyn Mitchell (Flanagan, Illinois) tied her career high with 18 an...
Jan 17, 2024, 11:56pm EST
Scots Put Five in Double Figures to Beat Grinnell's System
The Monmouth College men's basketball team shut down the system in the second half and knocked off Grinnell 104-91 on Wednesday night. The Scots (11-6, 5-3) put five players in double digits and held the Pioneers to 4-of-22 shooting from 3-point range ...
Jan 17, 2024, 11:29pm EST
Monmouth College group to share their deep dive into study of migrant workers in Singapore
A group of Monmouth College students, graduates and professors will share their findings several times this spring about their research about migrant domestic workers in Singapore. Last summer, Monmouth professors Jialin Li and Marlo Belschner led a t...
Jan 17, 2024, 4:34pm EST
Monmouth College students witness start of '24 presidential primary season at an Iowa caucus
Whether or not they had a candidate in the race, Monmouth College students who made the short - and very chilly - trip to Burlington, Iowa, for Monday night's first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses in the Hawkeye state came away impressed by the exper...
Jan 16, 2024, 3:24pm EST
Book by Monmouth College's Nahrstadt '89 is first biography of overlooked, underappreciated 1904 Democratic presidential nominee Alton Parker
A member of the Monmouth College Board of Trustees has stepped up to fill a surprising void in the genre of American political biographies. Brad Nahrstadt, a 1989 graduate of the College and a retired attorney, has written Alton B. Parker: The Man Wh...
Jan 15, 2024, 11:24am EST
Monmouth College Martin Luther King Jr. Day Convocation Canceled
Monmouth College's Martin Luther King Jr. Day convocation -- scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15 in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium -- has been canceled because of inclement weather. College officials will attempt to schedule a makeup day later this semes...
Jan 14, 2024, 2:49pm EST
Women's Basketball Falls at Ripon on Saturday
The Monmouth College women's basketball team fell 83-40 on the road to MWC leaders Ripon College on Saturday. Ripon scored the first five points before Ella Goodrich (Minonk, Illinois) made two free throws. Danielle Beach (Geneseo, Illinois) made a l...
Jan 13, 2024, 6:02pm EST
Scots Outlast Ripon for Fourth Straight Road Win
The Monmouth College men's basketball team picked up a big road win on Saturday as they outlasted Ripon 60-59. The Scots (10-6, 4-3) have won four straight road games and are 3-0 in the MWC away from home. Neither team got any separation early with th...
Jan 13, 2024, 4:42pm EST