Central faculty members Paulina Mena, associate professor of biology; Oscar Reynaga, lecturer of Spanish; and Paul Weihe, associate professor of biology, will present “Faith in the Vaccine” with student ambassadors from Interfaith Youth Corps from 7-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27, in the Boat/Moore rooms of Maytag Student Center.
Central College will receive a generous gift of $500,000 from Paul Poppen, a 1969 Central graduate, to establish the Poppen Fund for Social Justice Programs and the Poppen Diversity Scholarship.
The Moore Family Foundation Faculty Development Program for Teaching is providing more than $71,000 of grant funding for 13 faculty projects at Central for the 2021-22 academic year.
Terence J. Kleven, the Jacob and Gela Schnucker Sessler Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Central, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to conduct research in Arabic political philosophy at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan.
Jay Wackerly, associate professor of chemistry at Central, has been awarded the Organic Syntheses, Inc. Grant for Summer Research. Amy Philavanh, Class of 2022 and a biochemistry major from Ankeny, Iowa, will help Wackerly conduct research this summer.
A solar array and pergola in the college garden at Central College is finished, creating a new classroom space, as well as research and sustainability education opportunities for students.
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.
Central College student Marina Paul contributed to the Journal of High Plains Undergraduate Research.
Jay Wackerly, associate professor of chemistry at Central College, was the primary author of research published in “Chemistry — A European Journal” earlier this year.
Maria Andrade, 2016 recipient of the World Food Prize, will present Central College’s annual World Food Prize lecture Thursday, Oct. 17.
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