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For the second time, Lindenwood University has been named a Best of Western St. Charles County Award winner by the Western St. Charles Chamber of Commerce and Community News. Lindenwood representatives accepted the honor during the Chamber’s February membership meeting.

A 10-year-long passion project for Lindenwood University-Belleville Assistant Professor of History Jennifer Welsh has finally been completed in the form of her first published book. Now that The Cult of St. Anne in Medieval and Early Modern Europe has been released, Welsh said she hopes to get to work on a second book. She just hopes the next literary work she’s planning doesn’t take nearly as long to finish.

A paper co-authored by Lindenwood University-Belleville Assistant Professor Lindy Rossow has shined a spotlight on the subject of sexism in scientific research. The article, titled “Let’s Talk about Sex; Where are the Young Females in Blood Flow Restriction Research,” appeared in Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging magazine in September.

More than 800 students from high schools and middle schools across the state will meet March 11 at Lindenwood University-Belleville to compete in the Southern Illinois Regional Science Olympiad.

Lindenwood University’s Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise will host an afternoon and evening event on Feb. 9 focusing on re-entry and entrepreneurship. The “Left, Right, and Center” event will include a variety of panel discussions and a keynote address and dinner with Jeff Henderson, celebrity chef and former prison inmate.

Singer-songwriter and recording artist Mike Posner will perform in concert with the Legendary Mike Posner Band at 7 p.m. April 4 at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts on Lindenwood University’s St. Charles campus as part of the campus’ Spring Fling Week.

Lindenwood University-Belleville senior De’Marcus Terry on Friday became the first student to receive a university scholarship from Belleville’s Community Kindness charitable organization. Terry, a sprinter on the Lindenwood University-Belleville track team from Clewiston, Fla., will receive $1,000 to go towards his tuition plus additional money for his books to help him complete his education.

Lindenwood University’s School of Arts, Media, and Communications will launch new courses for the fall 2017 semester in the burgeoning fields of digital content strategy and game design. The new classes will be available online or in a hybrid online-classroom format.

The sun was about to come up July 1, and John Creer’s alarm went off. Just like it had for the past 25 years. But, he didn’t get in his car and drive to Lindenwood University. It was his first day of retirement.

The Robert W. Plaster School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Lindenwood University welcomes Dr. Hernando de Soto to the Dunseth Auditorium in Harmon Hall on the St. Charles campus at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27.