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For the second consecutive week, a Lindenwood Belleville basketball player has been honored for her work on the court by the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. This week, Megan Clark of the Lady Lynx was selected as Player of the Week.

Evelyn Hendrix, PsyD, S.P.H.R., of the Lindenwood University School of Business and Entrepreneurship, will disclose this week the results of an extensive recent study on the employment climate of St. Charles County. She will deliver a public presentation at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Spellmann Center on the main Lindenwood campus in St. Charles, Mo., following an initial unveiling of her findings to the First Capitol Lions Club on Thursday, Dec. 2.

Lindenwood University has received a $25,000 grant from Maritz to continue a glade restoration project at its Boone Home Campus in rural St. Charles County. The grant will continue and expand the existing project, which over that past two years has reestablished an important habitat for a variety of species, some of which are rare or endangered.

Annette Eckert, retired circuit judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit, and Greg Moats, former Belleville District 201 superintendent, have joined the faculty of Lindenwood University-Belleville.

Lindenwood Belleville's Todd Starks took home two awards on Tuesday, as he was named as an Area College Player of the Week by area basketball expert Earl Austin Jr. In addition, Starks was named USCAA Men’s Basketball Player of the Week.

The Shades of Blue U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America will perform a holiday concert at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, in Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, at 2300 West Clay St. in St. Charles.

Lindenwood University and the Missouri National Guard are teaming up to give away 250 Lindenwood Spirit Blankets to Lindenwood students on Saturday during the Lions’ playoff football game against the University of Saint Francis.

Lindenwood University Director of First-Year Programs Shane Williamson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Pernell Witherspoon, Ph.D., and select members of the Black Student Union will attend Grammy award -winning artist Nelly’s fifth annual Black and White Ball on Sunday, Dec. 19, at the Chase Park Plaza hotel in downtown St. Louis.

The Lindenwood University Athletic Department was honored Tuesday with a Special Achievement Award at the second annual St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame Enshrinement dinner at the Millenium Hotel downtown. The athletic department was recognized for winning six national championships during the 2009-10 school year.

Lindenwood University-Belleville has announced that its new student center on campus will be named after former United States Senator Alan J. Dixon.