Eric Engstrom

From all accounts, the 167th Commencement Exercises at Monmouth College on Sunday, May 19, were a huge success. From the warm and sunny spring day that allowed for an outdoor ceremony on the College's Wallace Hall Plaza, to the traditional pageantry o...

Just in time for farmers market season, the next Monmouth Associates program will focus on the Monmouth College Educational Garden and Farm. The May 16 luncheon, which will be held at noon at Meks on Main, 201 North Main Street, will be the final mee...

There were superheroes around every corner during Monmouth College's Scholars Day on Tuesday, which included a poster presentation in the Huff Athletic Center and the annual Honors Convocation in Dahl Chapel and Auditorium. "Today, we honor you, but e...

In early June, three dozen alumni and spouses who attended the Golden Scots Celebration stopped by Monmouth College's seven-acre farm (and its garden near campus, too), where they heard from the five-student summer work crew and from Craig Vivian, who ...

A common image from the California Gold Rush is a prospector panning in a stream. For five years now, Monmouth College students have been on their own treasure hunts, trading a prospecting pan for a petri dish as they try to discover, identify and seq...

A grant to Monmouth and Knox colleges will help both colleges strengthen their ties to their local communities. The two liberal arts colleges received a grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest to work on "Neighbors Supporting Neighbors: Buil...

A year ago, Monmouth College kicked off its annual series of Great Decisions discussions with a very timely talk on Russia. A few weeks later, the nation had gone to war with Ukraine. That topic will once again be on the agenda for the Great Decisions...

Monmouth College has been part of a community effort to help two Ukrainian families relocate to the area from their war-torn country. In July, Stepan Skrypnychenko and Olesia Chychaova arrived in Monmouth, and the couple was followed in November by th...

Monmouth College has received a major national grant to help make higher education more inclusive. The $470,666 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will be used to help create a seamless transfer pathway for Illinois Central College student...

Creativity in the workplace is something typically associated with a profession related to the fine arts, but Monmouth College biology professor Eric Engstrom points out that creativity is also part of daily life in agriculture. This summer, Engstrom ...

In the 19th century, geographers pretty much knew how the world was laid out - where the oceans stopped and land masses began, where countries' borders were, and where cities, towns and villages were located. But they didn't know everything about the...

A flurry of events created through Monmouth College's rural education initiatives - also known as REDI - concluded the spring semester, helping to ready a new wave of educational studies graduates while making important connections between the College ...

In a year when "normal" has almost faded from memory and the road to recovery is blocked by the orange detour signs of pandemic and civil unrest, two sleepy spots on the east side of Monmouth offer a welcome respite. "Things are falling apart everyw...

Coming around a bend down the gravel lane at the Monmouth College Market Farm, a shade-covered green hammock stretched invitingly between a pair of tree trunks. But on this gorgeous summer morning, the hammock remained empty - there was still much w...

Monmouth College students continue to contribute to a "tremendous resource to the scientific community" by helping unlock mysteries about a virus. Phage are viruses that infect bacteria, and they "are everywhere that bacteria are found," said Monmou...

Let the record show that Sept. 18, 2018, was the day that phage was found at Monmouth College. "We have liftoff," said biology professor Eric Engstrom, who teaches the College's phage-hunting course with department colleague Tim Tibbetts. "Our stude...

Monmouth Associates program kicks off with talk about study-abroad trip to Sumatra A program about a recent study-abroad trip to Southeast Asia will kick off the 2018-19 Monmouth College Associates luncheon series. Monmouth biology professor...