Lindenwood University will host its third annual Sibley Day on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in honor of University founders George and Mary Sibley. Students will be excused from classes in order to attend their choice of more 40 presentations and events scheduled throughout the day.
Lindenwood University is launching a new student ambassador program. The program was created by student-athletes RaShad May (junior) and Todd Starks (sophomore), along with their professor, Katie Davis, in conjunction with the Lindenwood University-Belleville Admissions Office. Student tours will begin immediately on a part-time basis with a full-time ambassador staff providing tours by this fall.
Dr. Mira Ezvan, professor of management information systems at Lindenwood University, will continue the university’s 2010-2011 Center for International and Global Studies Speaker Series at 7 p.m. on Thursday, February 24, 2011, on the main Lindenwood campus. Admission is free.
Rice University inventor, roboticist, and researcher Dr. James McLurkin will headline the continuing 2010-2011 Speaker Series at Lindenwood University at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 23 at the university’s Bezemes Family Theatre. Admission is free.
"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
Nationally renowned poet Shirley LeFlore will perform a reading of her work with multi-instrumentalist David A.N. Jackson at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 15, in the Lindenwood University Cultural Center Auditorium.
Lindenwood University-Belleville hosted former Belleville Township High School and Belleville West High School coaches and players from across the country during its Maroons on Main event on Saturday, Feb. 5.
Lindenwood Belleville exploded for 59 first-half points against Principia on Saturday and cruised to an 108-74 victory.
Lindenwood University is in the final stages of an aggressive fundraising campaign called “LU to D2,” seeking to raise $1 million by March 1 in order to apply for matching funds from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation. All monies raised would go toward construction of a three-story athletic building to be built overlooking Hunter Stadium.
Lindenwood University plans to construct a 43,450-square-foot athletic building with an academic support center, new locker rooms for football and other Hunter Stadium sports, coaches’ offices, and a Hall of Fame Room. Officials hope the three-story building will be ready for the school’s first football game in 2012.
