From: WBYS Radio (Canton, IL)
Knox College is the recipient of a federal grant of over $1.25-million. The grant will allow the college to continue its highly successful McNair TRIO Program that helps students prepare for academic and research-oriented careers… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Knox College linebacker Mike Hendrick has earned two more postseason honors following another outstanding year on the gridiron. Hendrick was named to the D3football.com 2012 All-West Region third team defense and Beyond Sports Network’s (BSN) 2012 Honorable Mention All-American Team at linebacker. He led the Midwest Conference with 13.3 tackles per game and a season total of 133 tackles, the third-most in the country… Read more in the Register-Mail… More about Mike Hendrick’s selection for the D3 Senior Classic…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Discovery Depot has embarked upon an ambitious three-year, $750,000 project that addresses both the interior and exterior of the children’s museum. “What we do inside will be a huge ‘wow’ for the community,” said Discovery Depot Executive Director Denise Bradburn…
Discovery Depot has a KnoxCorps fellow primarily working on obtaining grants. “Knox College and the Galesburg Community Foundation placed a person here, because they believe in this project,” Bradburn said. Read more…
From: KDVR Fox 31 News (Denver, CO)
Psychology research at Knox College that indicated girls as young as six were interested in looking ’sexy,’ prompted Kim Posey of Fox 31 Denver to “put together a similar survey of girls” in the Denver area KDVR reports. “The results were equally as surprising… Researchers at Knox College in Illinois showed 60 girls ages six to nine two paper dolls. One was dressed in a very revealing outfit, and one was dressed in a more covered outfit. Sixty-eight percent of the girls said they wanted to look like the ’sexy’ doll, and 72 percent thought the ’sexy’ doll would be more popular… Kim surveyed 15 girls in second and third grade [in a Denver after school program]… 80 percent picked the ’sexy’ girl as the popular girl…” Read more… and see Knox in the News for more coverage of the research by Knox graduate Christy Starr and her faculty advisor Gail Ferguson.
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
[Galesburg Register-Mail editor Tom Martin] went through some of the percentages and vote totals locally and across the state… Precinct 13, which contains the area around Knox College, was the only precinct with less than 50 percent turnout in the city…
The Knox News Team, a group of journalism students from Knox College led by visiting Professor Sue Deans, completed a poll in October showing Galesburg voters favored Obama by a 57.7 percent. The actual total came in at 63 percent for Obama… Read more…
CNN anchor Christine Romans, who spoke at Knox on Jan. 17, mentioned her visit to campus on the subsequent edition of her program on personal finance, Your Bottom Line: “This week, I had the honor of speaking to students at Knox College, a private liberal arts college, in Galesburg, Illinois. Here’s what I told them: there are four available workers for every job in this country. I said, ‘look around you, look around you in that room. You got to beat out three of those classmates just to get hired. You still have a golden ticket. You’re just going to have to work harder to get it punched’…” Read more and watch video (Knox segment begins about 2 mins in)…
