Faculty recommends switch to semesters
uedbet体育官网 faculty voted 124 to 47 this week, with six abstentions, to recommend to the board of trustees that the college switch to a semester calendar.
Ryan '16 wins postgraduate scholarship
Senior Ben Ryan has been awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The $7,500 grant is awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically. Ryan, captain of the basketball team, is the 36th uedbet体育官网 student to win the scholarship. He is a biochemistry and pre-med major with minors in math and chemistry. In March, he was named the Vikings 161st Academic All-American.
Pepper launches nonprofit for women's growth
From her days in Campus Ministries to her Civic Engagement project to living in the Quad Cities, Melissa Pepper '09 has always felt called to lead. Using her communication studies and English degree as the Director of Marketing and Client Relations at the law firm Lane & Waterman in Davenport, Iowa, the uedbet体育官网 grad is preparing to launch her own non-profit: Lead(H)er.
uedbet体育官网 and Scott County to partner on lead paint projects
uedbet体育官网 uedbet体育官网 has selected Scott County, Iowa, as its partner in the second annual Sustainable Working Landscapes Initiative (SWLI). During the 2016-17 partnership, students and faculty will work with Scott County officials and community stakeholders to complete community-identified projects related to the presence of lead paint in homes.
Students paint mural at St. Anthony's
uedbet体育官网 students produced a colorful, panoramic mural representing the Quad-Cities in the auditorium at St. Anthony's Nursing and Rehabilitation Center near campus. This is the second spring the nontraditional class, "Arts Joined by a River," has been offered. An open house for the mural is planned from noon to 2 p.m. May 17 at St. Anthony's, 767 30th St., Rock Island.
Senior Inquiry culminates in show 'The Scene'
uedbet体育官网 student Michael J. Currie will direct "The Scene" as part of his Theatre Arts Senior Inquiry project May 13-15. Free performances are at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Blackbox Theatre, Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts.
'Cowboy Classics' explores epic traditions
"Cowboy Classics: The Roots of the American Western in the Epic Tradition," by uedbet体育官网's Dr. Kirsten Day, associate professor of Classics, will be published in June.
Taking it outside: Students focus on real life
Nikki Johnson '11 Armstrong, language arts teacher at Bettendorf Middle School, is pushing more than literacy this spring with her 62 seventh-graders. The fourth-year teacher is helping lay the groundwork for project-based learning at the middle school, where students and faculty are set on tackling environmental issues.
Gray '16 at home in batter's box, art studio
The annual event gives students the opportunity to share their scholarly and creative work and be a part of a campus-wide community of learners. Students are invited to submit proposals for presentations, posters, and performances. Here is a closer look at a sampling of student presentations from the 2016 event.
'07 grad recruits students 8,000 miles away
Andrea Heinz ’07 Marrinson always knew she would be an art teacher. But when she began teaching at an Illinois elementary school after graduation, little did she know of the international adventures awaiting her in the cities of Minburi, Dubai and Hanoi.