Features No Limits: How a Knox liberal arts education prepared alumni for sports-world careers Knox College provides its students with an exceptional liberal arts education and limitless opportunities for success. Meet five Knox alumni and former Prairie Fire athletes who parlayed their Knox experiences into meaningful careers with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), NFL, and collegiate sports programs.
Features The Inauguration of C. Andrew McGadney The Knox College community celebrated the inauguration of C. Andrew McGadney as the 20th president of Knox College in May 2022.
Features Farm Term 50th Reunion Farm Term, one of Knox's first immersive learning experiences, celebrates its 50th.
Features Back on Track Knox Magazine digs into the history of Knox College's successful track and field team.
Features C. Andrew McGadney Knox's 20th president gives the magazine a closer look at his life, his family, and his plans for Knox College and the Galesburg community,
Features Teresa's Top Ten As Knox’s 19th president prepares to retire on June 30, the magazine takes a look at some of the signature achievements of her tenure.
Features A Year Without a Season For 12 months, Prairie Fire student-athletes were unsure exactly when the COVID-19 pandemic would allow them to resume competition—here's how they stayed prepared and focused in uncertain times.
Features John Lawler: Meeting Every Moment With a Growth Mindset CFO John Lawler ’88 is helping to lead Ford Motor Company through a marketplace that looks wildly different than it did in the early 1990s. He says his Knox education has been key to keeping up in a constantly evolving industry.
Features How to Succeed in Business (Without Changing Your Major) Knox’s Business Intensive Seminar has a singular mission: to help students put the skills they’ve developed in their major to work in a business setting.
Features Meet the Alumni Who Are “Meeting the Moment” At this pivotal time in our history, Knox Magazine spoke with alumni who are tackling some of the biggest challenges our planet faces.
Features Akwasi Asabere ’05 Thinks We Can Virtually Eliminate Cancer With advances in prevention and early detection, the day could be coming soon where many cancers can be virtually eliminated before they ever develop. Akwasi Asabere is leading the way.
Features Carol Craig ’89 Wants to Put the First Woman on the Moon As CEO of Craig Technologies, Carol Craig has been instrumental in NASA's planned return to the moon and to future manned expeditions to Mars, helping to develop technologies to move people and cargo from low-Earth orbit and beyond.
Features Sam Veague ’05 Sees a Bright Future in Solar Energy Sam Veague '05 has built a career in the burgeoning solar energy industry, most recently as CEO of Equilibrium Solar. Its recent acquisition by larger player Unirac shows the industry is finally reaching its full potential.
Features Hardika Shah ’92 Is Leading the Fight for Financial Inclusion in India As CEO and founder of Kinara Capital, Hardika Shah is bringing economic opportunities to small businesses in India with an innovative approach to commercial lending.
Features (Re)Engaging with Knox: It's Never "Too Late" Regine Rousseau '94 believes many alumni want to engage with Knox after graduating but aren't sure how to do that. She has some suggestions.
Features (Re)Engaging with Knox: A Few of Our Engaged Alumni Generous with their time and knowledge, Knox College alumni often share their experiences and insights with current Knox students. Here are just a few examples.
Features Forgetting Where the Ys Are Student Lily Lauver '21 describes the thoughtful and intricate nature of letterpress printing, made possible by the generosity of a Knox alumnus.
Features (Re)Engaging with Knox: Join the Online Community Through the KNect Online Community, alumni can volunteer as mentors to other members of the Knox community and connect with each other.
Features Pioneer of the Press Kelly Clare ’16 was the first creative writing and studio art student to explore the possibilities of the letterpress at Knox.
Features Alumni Survey—The Results Are In! In October 2019, Knox undertook a comprehensive alumni survey.
Features Up Close with Nature Four Knox students spent the summer conducting biology research at Green Oaks—a sprawling 700 acres of forests, streams, and prairies 20 miles east of the College.
Features A Whale Comes To Knox The renovated Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center core will be home to Knox’s largest resident—a 55-foot fin whale skeleton.
Features The Jerusalem Question(s) As part of Professor Danielle Steen Fatkin's course on the Israel-Palestine conflict, 15 Knox students traveled to Jerusalem over winter break to visit the historic sites that make Jerusalem so important to people of the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish faiths.
Features The Curriculum Issue In fall 2019, Knox College introduced its first curriculum changes since 2002. We take a closer look at what has changed, from "experiential learning" to the introduction of a civic engagement requirement.
Features Knox Adds New Minor in Archaeology The program is a natural outgrowth of the growing number of archaeology courses—including Danielle Fatkin’s first-year preceptorial focusing on the subject, geological excursions, and international field school opportunities that have become available to students in recent years.
Features How a Whale Came to the Prairie An interview with Nick Gidmark, assistant professor of biology, who brought a 55-foot fin whale skeleton to Knox College.
Features Beyond the Books: "Real World" Lessons in Spanish Knox students are venturing beyond the classroom to get practical, real-world experiences in reading, writing, and speaking Spanish.
Features Alive With Research and Collaboration The Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center is bursting with activity even when classes aren't in session
Features Major Disconnect Knox students are required to pursue a concentration in a field beyond their major. What happens when the two are almost totally unrelated?
Features Looking at the Landscape Knox College students offer their visual interpretations of campus and other places, near and far, while their professor explains the annual course in landscape painting.
Features CS 295R: Interactive Design New Feature Interactive Design is an experiment in collaborative teaching that brings together design, technology, and storytelling for a truly integrated liberal arts experience.
Features Tellin' It Like It Is: A.B.L.E. at 50 Expanded Content In celebrating and chronicling the 50th anniversary of A.B.L.E. (Allied Blacks for Liberty and Equality), Knox Magazine interviewed A.B.L.E. alumni and students from various generations of this integral campus organization.
Features 6 Ways of Looking at a Star Star Donors are the largely unacknowledged heroes of Knox College. It's time to give them their due.
Features Expanding Options for Science Students Knox students will now have the opportunity to pursue a bachelor of science degree in eight fields of study, and a renovation of the Umbeck Science-Mathematics Center is on the horizon.
Features Yes, College is Worth It: Busting Myths about Higher Education Knox Magazine set out to take on a few of the headlines—or bust a few of the common myths—about higher education to help us all understand better why a college degree is still worthy of pursuit.
Features McNair Anniversary New Feature For 25 years, the McNair Scholars Program has been opening doors for Knox students and creating a community of knowledgeable, well-prepared scholars.
Features Committed to the "Creatives" Knox alumnus and writer-in-residence Sherwood Kiraly ’72 sat down with Professor Robin Metz to discuss 50 years of creative writing at Knox, leading to a few conversational tangents along the way.
Features “What do you do with a creative writing degree, anyway?” It’s one of the first questions that worried parents ask. Fifty years of alumni from Knox’s Program in Creative Writing fill us in on what happens after graduation.
Features A Field Guide to Knox Student Publications Through the years, student publications have come and gone, some have changed names, many have won national awards, and each offers its own unique perspective on life at Knox. Explore a selection of current student literary publications at Knox.
Features Celebrating 100 Years of Class Notes Over its 100-year history, one thing has been consistent in practically every issue of the magazine: Class Notes. Learn the story of the last century through select alumni Class Notes submissions.
Features Creative Writing at Knox Since its creation 50 years ago in 1967, Knox’s Program in Creative Writing has grown in both size and prestige.
