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Softball player Jennica Soliz '24 gets another shot at a senior season
Senior Jennica Soliz, a psychology major from Moline, Ill., remembers her last softball season in high school, which was cut short due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Planetarium opens to the public for spring open house
The annual event features stargazing, space shows and access to the Fryxell Geology Museum.
2024 Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies winners
The annual Geifman Prize in Holocaust Studies is a competition in which students write or compose in music and art their responses to the Holocaust.
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The innovative program, previously only available to juniors and seniors, is now expanded to sophomores so that they too can engage in transformational engaged learning experiences.
365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ student wins award at Cedar Rapids Independent Film Fest
Matthew Chezum ’25, from New Windsor, Ill., won the Student Audience Choice Eddy Award in the 2024 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival (CRIFF).
Juniors selected for Texas Medical Center summer research internship
Selected students will take part in the paid, full-time, 10-week experience at the Texas Medical Center in Houston this summer.
Lisa Durant-Jones named 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@’s commencement speaker
The May 25 ceremony will be the college's 164th annual convocation.
365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ celebrates geography department’s 75th anniversary
The public is invited to presentations at the John Deere Planetarium during the anniversary weekend to hear how 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ alumni are leading and contributing to important work in their chosen fields today.
Rachel Gustafson named South Rock Island Township Resident of the Year
Rachel Gustafson '92 was recognized for her service to youth in the Quad-Cities.
Students hear from Estonian defense minister
The visit was arranged through the German Marshall Fund of the United States, with stops in Illinois and Iowa from April 7-10.
Planetarium and geology museum to host open house on May 11
365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@'s John Deere Planetarium and Fryxell Geology Museum will be open to the public on Saturday, May 11, 2024, for an evening of stargazing and space shows. The planetarium, located at 820 38th Street, Rock Island, will be open from 8:30-10 p.m., with indoor and outdoor programs in the planetarium, observatory and geology museum.
2024 Audre Lorde Prize winners announced
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program has announced the winners of the 2024 Audre Lorde Prize. The awards are named in honor of Audre Lorde (1934-1992), an intersectional feminist writer and civil rights activist who wrote the foundational text "Sister Outsider" (1984). Awards are given annually.
2024 Ethics Essay Contest winners announced
Claire Martino, a junior from New Berlin, Wis., majoring in applied mathematics and data science, is the winner of the 2024 Ethics Essay Contest for the essay "Artificial Intelligence Could Probably Write This Essay Better than Me."
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