Eric Engstrom

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...