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Brittney Miller, a senior from
Pekin, shows Monmouth College alumni Jeff Miller, Dan Cotter and Dan
Schisler around the Huff Athletic Center during a campus tour at the
start of the "Scots’ Connection: Engaging Alumni Across the College"
conference on Nov. 21. |
Alumni, students
connect at conference: Some people claim that everything we need to
know is learned by kindergarten. Those involved in higher education
would disagree, especially those who participated in a panel discussion
last weekend titled “Everything I Needed to Know I Learned at Monmouth
College.” That discussion was part of a two-day college-to-career
conference on campus. Titled “Scots’ Connection: Engaging Alumni Across
the College,” the event put MC students and alumni together to talk
about various issues and opportunities in the professional workforce.
Issues included how women and minorities are treated, and roundtable
discussions were held on careers involving law, business, medicine and
science. “I am incredibly proud that we were able to pull off such a
successful first-time event. The feedback from participating alumni and
students has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Michelle Shawgo,
director of the college’s Wackerle Career Development Program. Alumni
participating were Regina Bannan-Johnson, Mary Corrigan,
Kellie Esters,
Frank Clark, Dan Cotter, Michael Frantz, Addie Hebard,
Dan Schisler and
Jeff Miller.
Psychology, physics students hit the
road: Several psychology and physics students recently attended
academic conferences in their respective disciplines. Fourteen
psychology students presented research posters at the 18th Annual
Tri-State Undergraduate Research Psychology Conference at the University
of Wisconsin-Platteville. Among the topics covered by the students were
the impact of exercise on the levels of stress and “Sensitivity: Does It
Really Make a Man?” Ten students attended the 2008 Quadrennial Congress
of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society. Titled “Scientific
Citizenship: Connecting Physics & Society,” the conference was held at
Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. Held every four years, the event was billed as
“not your average physics conference.” Students spent a packed weekend
interacting with distinguished speakers, debating common concerns for
the discipline and society, and touring locations at Fermilab, which was
originally named the National Accelator Laboratory when it was
commissioned in 1967.
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Bill Urban with his book "The Dean Is Still Dead." |
Fact or fiction? Urban chooses latter
for latest book: MC’s faculty and administration can only hope that
the subject of professor William Urban’s latest book remains fictional.
Urban is known for his non-fiction books, many of which deal with Baltic
history. But, lately, he has turned into a murder mystery author, with
his ill-fated subjects employed at a small liberal arts college. In his
2007 debut novel, “The Dean Is Dead,” the victim was the dean of
Briarpatch College. Now, in “The Dean Is Still Dead,” which was released
in November, “There’s another murder,” said Urban. “Also, we learn more
about the characters – who turn out to be ever more interesting.” “The
Dean Is Still Dead” is available in paperback for $18.95 from Amazon.com
or the MC Bookstore. And for those hungry for even more, Urban said that
the chances for the series to turn into a trilogy are “a dead
certainty.”
Fifty years
of art: Just in time to usher in the new year, Monmouth College is
hosting a retrospective art exhibit of one its legendary emeritus art
professors, Harlow B. Blum. Titled “40 + 10 Retrospective,” Blum’s
exhibit will continue through Jan. 30 in the Len G. Everett Gallery in
Hewes Library. A gallery talk will held on Jan. 16 at 2 p.m. followed by
a reception until 4 p.m. for the artist. The gallery talk, reception and
exhibit are all free and open to the public. In this 50-year
retrospective, Blum has included 112 selected works produced during the
40 years he taught art at Monmouth College (1959-99), as well as work
from his 10 years of retirement. He has carefully selected
representative pieces from his early years, when he worked primarily
with oil paint and printmaking. The themes include Japan, which was a
major influence in his work, as well as warriors, jazz, nature and
family. Within the last few years, Blum has completed construction on
his property in Monmouth of a two-car garage that has above it an art
studio and gallery that is now featuring some of his selected works.
