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Central Seniors to Showcase Art Exhibit at Mills Gallery
Four Central College students will present their final art projects during the Senior Exhibition at the Mills Gallery in the Lubbers Center for Visual Arts on Central's campus. The Mills Gallery is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The seni...
May 2, 2022, 10:56am EDT
Central College Professor Chia Selected for NEH Summer Institute
Chia Ning, professor of history at Central College, has been selected to participate in the three-week National Endowment for the Humanities 2022 Summer Institute, "Worlds in Collision: Nahua and Spanish Pictorial Histories and Annuals in 16th-Century ...
Apr 28, 2022, 9:29am EDT
Central College's Bonnstetter Earns Red Rock Area Top 10 Under 40 Award
The Marion County Development Commission recently announced the 2021 Red Rock Area Top 10 Under 40. Steffanie Bonnstetter, senior content strategist - marketing and project management at Central College, was recognized as one of the 10 outstanding indi...
Apr 28, 2022, 8:11am EDT
Central College Art Students Restore Klokkenspel Mannequins
When Central College students from the Class of 2025 Amelia Brown, Fynn Wadsworth and Emily Wassink received an email inviting students to restore historic figures from Pella's Klokkenspel, they knew they wanted to be involved. These first-year art stu...
Apr 27, 2022, 4:50pm EDT
Spring Music Performances
Central Colleges music program will wrap up the Spring semester with five concerts in April and two concerts in May. ALMA will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 22, in Cox-Snow Music Center. The concert will be directed by Gabriel Espinosa, associate pr...
Apr 22, 2022, 9:00am EDT
Central College Theatre to Present "Crimes of the Heart"
Central College's Visual and Performing Arts Department will present the tragicomedy "Crimes of the Heart," by American playwright Beth Henley, from April 27-30 in Kruidenier Theatre on Central's campus. The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the...
Apr 21, 2022, 9:28am EDT
The Joy of Giving - Family Style
Seven siblings - all Central College alumni - honored their parents by establishing a $700,000 endowment in their names. The Allan and Grace Braskamp Family Endowment for Purpose, Meaning and Faith will support an environment, activities and programs f...
Apr 20, 2022, 5:14pm EDT
Youth Camps, Conferences Set This Summer at Central College
Central College offers a variety of athletics, music and other camps and conferences during the summer for K-12 students and adults. The most current list of camps is available at central.edu/camps. Check back to learn about new opportunities. Academi...
Apr 20, 2022, 4:57pm EDT
Central College Raises $340,000 on Hoo-Rah Day
The sixth-annual Central College Hoo-Rah Day tallied 368 gifts in one day, April 12. In total, the college raised $339,583 to help support student scholarships and programs. Hoo-Rah Day, an annual day-long event, celebrates Central pride with the natio...
Apr 19, 2022, 2:32pm EDT
Central Faculty-Student Research Published in Chemistry Journal
A Central College professor and seven students have had their research on the synthesis indirubin, an isomer of indigo, published in RSC Advances, a peer-reviewed journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. James Shriver, professor of chemistry; Kaylie...
Apr 12, 2022, 3:12pm EDT