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Three Lindenwood University graduate students have won competitive research grants from the National Strength and Conditioning Association Foundation. “This is a real credit to Lindenwood University and speaks to the quality of work our students are doing,” Dr. Chad Kerksick, assistant professor of exercise science, said. “These grants will allow some very talented students to further their excellent research.”

Lindenwood University has received permission from the Higher Learning Commission to launch a slate of new degree programs, mostly in the School of Arts, Media, and Communications, including in the burgeoning fields of digital content strategy and game design.

Lindenwood University’s Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Research Program is receiving a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council to survey for the wreck site of Far West. Far West was the steamboat that carried the U.S. Army’s survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn from the field to Fort Abraham Lincoln near present day Mandan, N.D., in 1876.

Lindenwood University- Belleville received a generous gift in the amount of $40,000 from Ameren Illinois to support the building of a makerspace where students can learn through doing and collaborating.

This spring, the Lindenwood University School of Education conducted its first study abroad trip, an 11-day exploration of the religious, historical, political, and socio-economic factors affecting education in Ireland, Wales, and England.

If you’re an educator with questions about the future of teaching or an administrator with ideas to share about how things could be done better, come discuss them with your peers at Edcamp, from 8 a.m. until noon on Wednesday, July 26, on the campus of Lindenwood University-Belleville.

Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts announces its 2017-18 professional season line-up, its ninth season since the $32 million performing arts center opened, consisting of nine touring shows, starting with Kenny Loggins on Sept. 9.

Kaitlin Trimble and Lexi Nephew have been named 2017 recipients of Lindenwood University’s 2017 Pachyderm Scholarship, which is presented in cooperation with the St. Charles Country Pachyderm Club. The awards were announced at the club’s meeting on June 9 at St. Charles’ Golden Corral Restaurant.

The Lindenwood University family is mourning the loss of longtime board member Jim J. Shoemake, who passed away on Wednesday, June 28.

Emmanuel Forbes is a familiar face to students and staff members at Lindenwood University-Belleville, where he’s known simply as “Manny.” He stood in the Alice E. Ackermann Welcome Center, dutifully attending a ceremony to announce the winner of the 2017 campus employee of the year award. Forbes never suspected that the honor was going to be presented to him.