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Central College Music Ensembles Present Virtual Performances
Central College's music department will offer several upcoming virtual performances, starting Saturday, Oct. 31, with "Stars and Stripes and Steel Drums." The Flying Pans Steel Band, directed by Stan Dahl, will present "AMERIPAN," a patriotic musica...
Oct 29, 2020, 11:39am EDT
Central RED Offers Look at Start of Liberty Street Kitchen
Central College's Central RED Society will present "From the Beginning: The Liberty Street Kitchen Story" with Jake Warner during a virtual event at noon Thursday, Nov. 12. The event is free and can be accessed via Zoom. Liberty Street Kitchen, loca...
Oct 26, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
Central Professor-Student Research Published in Chemistry Journal
A Central College professor and four students have had their research on a byproduct of indigo dye featured in RSC Advances, a peer-reviewed journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. James Shriver, professor of chemistry; Katelyn Wang, Class of 202...
Oct 23, 2020, 10:25am EDT
Central College Announces World Food Prize Lecture
Bram Govaerts, winner of the 2014 World Food Prize, will present Central College's annual World Food Prize Lecture from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The free event will be virtual and available via Zoom. The World Food Prize is the ...
Oct 22, 2020, 10:17am EDT
Central College Alum Harry Smith To Speak at Called To Climate Action Event
Central College alum Harry Smith will be the keynote speaker at the annual event Called to Climate Action: Uphold and Upheave. The virtual event, co-hosted by Central and Iowa Interfaith Power & Light, is at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. Smith, who gra...
Oct 19, 2020, 11:50am EDT
Central Professors Launch Season 2 of "Mid-Americana" Podcast
"Mid-Americana: Stories from a Changing Midwest" launched its second season Oct. 7. The podcast is the brainchild of Central College professors Joshua Dolezal, professor of English, and Brian Campbell, director of sustainability education and partnersh...
Oct 15, 2020, 11:00am EDT
Central College's Mills Gallery to Feature Ceramics Exhibit
An exhibit featuring current resident artists of the Iowa Ceramics Center and Glass Studio will run from Oct. 21 to Nov. 20 at the Mills Gallery in the Lubbers Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Central College. The exhibit is titled "(un)c...
Oct 12, 2020, 4:10pm EDT
Central Students, Faculty and Staff Make Service Day Successful
Central College held its annual Service Day on Oct. 6 with more than 650 volunteers taking part in 50 projects. Service Day has been a cornerstone of the Central experience since 2006. Students, faculty and staff volunteered for projects in Pella an...
Oct 8, 2020, 3:08pm EDT
NBA Player, Pella High Grad Kyle Korver to Speak at Central College
Kyle Korver, an NBA veteran who spent this season with the Milwaukee Bucks, will speak on campus at Central College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in P.H. Kuyper Gymnasium. The event, part of the Geisler Penquite Educational Excellence Speakers Serie...
Oct 5, 2020, 10:35am EDT
Central College Receives $431,000 Estate Gift From Mary Vanden Berge
Central College received an estate gift of more than $431,000 from Mary Vanden Berge, a 1967 graduate of the college. Vanden Berge majored in history at Central and went on to earn her master's in library sciences from what now is the State Universi...
Oct 1, 2020, 9:32am EDT