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Lindenwood University has received a $14,283 grant from the Midway USA Foundation, Inc., to support the Lindenwood University Shotgun Sports Team.

Dr. Brooke Taylor, assistant professor of English, has been selected to present her research at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association’s 2014 conference on April 11-13 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Registration is now open for the Lindenwood University Campus YMCA’s fourth annual Spring into Service day. The event, geared toward making an impact in the community, will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 12.

Lindenwood University-Belleville’s Student Government Association hosted the Nations Group Race Relation Dialogue on March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Lindenwood Auditorium on campus. The event was free and open to the public.

Lindenwood University, a 2014 St. Louis Business Journal Best Places to Work finalist, has been selected by Quantum Workplace as one of three locations nationwide to host a seminar detailing how great corporate cultures are built. The event, Winning with Culture: Learning from America’s “Best Places to Work,” will take place from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 23, in Harmon Hall’s Dunseth Auditorium on the St. Charles campus.

Lindenwood University and the Missouri Arts Council have partnered to bring the national tour of MEMPHIS: The Musical to St. Charles, Mo., on April 21.

The Lindenwood University Theatre Department will present the classic Russian story of love and betrayal, Anna Karenina, at 7:30 p.m. April 10-12 and at 2 p.m., on April 13 at the university’s Emerson Black Box Theater.

Xiong Rongyuan, chairman of Wenshan University in China, recently presented to Lindenwood University the poem below, “Ode to Lindenwood.” Wenshan University, located in Wenshan City in China’s Yunnan Province, has been Lindenwood University’s sister university for nearly a decade.

Lindenwood University student Josh Pauls returned to St. Louis yesterday after he and his United States Sled Hockey teammates defeated Russia 1-0 on March 15 to win the gold medal at the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The Americans are the first team in Paralympic history to repeat as consecutive gold medalists, having won gold at the Vancouver Winter Games in 2010.

The Lindenwood University Speaker Series will present Adam Steltzner, lead NASA engineer for the Mars Curiosity rover landing, at 7 p.m. on March 25, 2014, in the university’s Lindenwood Theater. Tickets are required but are free and available at the Lindenwood Box Office. His talk is titled, “How Curiosity Changed My Life.”