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Nine senior psychology majors presented the results of their research at the Siouxland Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, held at Dordt College on April 28.

Diane Westenberg, maintenance assistant, has been named the 2005 recipient of the college’s Staff Recognition for Inspirational Service Award.

Sixteen longtime Northwestern employees were honored at the college’s Spring Recognition Banquet on April 26.

A student-led club for computer science majors and minors was established at Northwestern College during the 2004–05 academic year.

Dr. Juyeon Kang has given several recent recitals.

Four Northwestern students spoke at the 40th annual Student History Conference, sponsored by the Phi Alpha Theta history honors society at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, on April 21.

Dr. Joel Westerholm, professor of English, has been accepted for a selective NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) summer seminar: Religious Experience and English Poetry, 1633-1985.

Eight incoming freshmen at Northwestern College—from California, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota—have been selected to receive Norman Vincent Peale Scholarships.

Northwestern College has named five professors as 2005 Lilly Faculty Fellows. The professors will each receive a grant of $3,000 to conduct research related to the theological foundation of vocation in the liberal arts as part of Northwestern’s Lilly Grant project, Vocare: Find Your Place.

Piet Koene, instructor in Spanish and the 2004 Iowa Professor of the Year, was honored at the Iowa Statehouse on April 12.