Jerry Jay Cranford to teach musical theatre
Jerry Jay Cranford, who is finishing up his second year of teaching acting and musical theater at Kansas State University, will join 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ later this year to help build a musical theater degree program.
History students tour once-bawdy Bucktown area
Dr. Jane Simonsen, associate professor of history, took a group of students on a walking tour of downtown Davenport to highlight the infamous Bucktown neighborhood. "It's cool to connect history with the actual physical places," said Scott Doberstein, a junior history major. "It makes history come alive. You're actually walking down the street people were on. Now think about the decisions they were making."
Students create book for visually impaired
Seniors Kaitlyn Czerwonka and Leesa Potthoff went to Florida for spring break. They spent a week with high school students who are visually-impaired at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in Jacksonville. By the time the two elementary education majors left, they had written and designed a children’s book.
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Thomas '18 secures internship at world-renowned Swiss Institute
Pre-medicine student Mary Therese Thomas ’18 secured a summer internship at the renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, a world-class research and teaching complex operated by the Swiss government on the shores of Lake Geneva, and home to 14,000 people from around the world who study or work there.
20,000 bees (with two queens) moving into Augie Acres
Earlier this spring, the 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Local Agriculture Society met at Augie Acres to decide on a fun, challenging project for the student-run garden. Looking at an abandoned hive at the edge of the property, sophomore Jamie Fee repeated an idea she'd had last year: "Bees!" And so Augie Acres will welcome six pounds of Carniolan bees from California.
Lecture video: The secret life of Antarctic sand
Dr. Kathy Licht of Indiana University-Purdue University presents an 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Center for Polar Studies lecture, "The secret life of Antarctic sand: Tales from the world's largest ice sheet." Sand holds many clues to the Earth's past. The composition and age of single sand grains can be measured with high-tech analytical techniques and then combined with others to provide a rich history of the ice sheets in Antarctica.
Wills '16 wins 2015 Hasselmo Prize
Fueled by a heart defect and an interest in research, junior Brandon Wills earned the 2015 Hasselmo Prize for Academic Pursuit and its $5,000 award. The biology major will conduct genetics research at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill., this summer.
Hasselmo winner has heart and mind in the right place
Fueled by a heart defect and an interest in research, junior Brandon Wills earned the 2015 Hasselmo Prize for Academic Pursuit and its $5,000 award. The biology major will conduct genetics research at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill., this summer.
Observer staff wins 18 awards
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 student newspaper, the 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Observer, has done it again, collecting 18 awards from the Illinois 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Press Association to break the newspaper's record of 17 awards in 2011.