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Lindenwood University is accepting applications for a new scholarship, the Sibley Scholarship, for high-achieving students, worth up to full tuition, room, and board.

Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis recently joined with representatives from Lindenwood University on Oct. 24 to celebrate Lindenwood’s sponsorship of Junior Achievement’s BizTown program with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Lindenwood University will hold its annual Winterfest event for the community from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, on the Heritage side of the university’s St. Charles campus.

Shelly Looney, Lindenwood University women’s hockey head coach, was recently featured on an NBC sports program called “The Champion Within.” Looney scored the winning goal for the U.S. women’s hockey team in the 1998 Olympics and took over head coaching duties at Lindenwood this season.

Lindenwood University was recently featured in Business Insider for its ranking as one of the 30 Best Online MBA Entrepreneurship Programs by OnlineCollegePlan.com. Lindenwood’s program was ranked 17th in the country.

Lions tight end Erik Henneman was the subject of a profile in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The 26-year-old’s strong play has caught the attention of NFL scouts, who have begun to appear at Hunter Stadium to watch him play.

Fifteen Lindenwood faculty and staff members participated in Habitat for Humanity’s Women’s Build Day on Oct. 26.

Lindenwood will be hosting its ninth annual Dark Carnival Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 6 to 10 p.m. on the heritage side of campus, starting by the Spellmann Center clock tower.

On behalf of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Paul Wright, professor of health sciences completed the 2019 Ironman World Championship on Oct. 12 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The race, which consisted of a 2 ½-mile open-water swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run, was complicated by the fact Wright broke his arm eight weeks before the race.

The School of Humanities and the MFA in Writing program co-hosted a Flash Forms Festival on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in McCluer Hall’s Piers Stewart Lounge as a part of Lindenwood University’s Dark Carnival.