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Knox College has promoted five faculty members to the rank of full professor: Caesar Akuetey, modern languages; Neil Blackadder, theatre; John Dooley, computer science; Lori Haslem, English; and Michael Schneider, history.
Knox College's weekly newspaper has won 12 awards, including top college newspaper in Illinois: the culmination of a lot of hard work by the staff, says editor Laura Miller.
Students Max Galloway-Carson and Mike Kaminski wrote the program, then let their robot "Jack" do it: push his way to victory in Knox's Sumo Computer Robot Competition.
Register-Mail columnist Tom Loewy talks with Knox College student Maurice McDavid about why he came to Knox, why he loves Galesburg, and his vision for the community.
Knox College educational studies faculty Jason Helfer and Stephen Schroth are collaborating with Lyric Opera of Chicago on publications that connect opera with the school curriculum for 24,000 elementary students in Chicago. 
Theatre reviewers note outstanding work by Knox College faculty in directing, acting and design, in Vitalist Theatre's Chicago production of "The Night Season." 
Knox College computer scientist David Bunde and colleagues receive a patent for raising the efficiency of programming in supercomputers with thousands of networked processors. 
Knox College has been awarded a challenge grant of $850,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. It is is the third-largest among this year's grants and the largest to any educational institution. 
Knox College will receive a $50,000 grant from Excelencia in Education to implement a program to increase the graduation rate of Latina women at the college. 
