Articles filed under Benedictine University

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  ‘Idol’ winner brings ‘Home’ to Benedictine University Feb 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  Music fans looking to put a face with the guy responsible for one of most popular songs of the past year can see him up close this spring at Benedictine University in Lisle. National recording artist and “American Idol” season 11 winner HYPERLINK "http://www.phillipphillips.com/flyaway/"Phillip Phillips will take the stage April 13 at “BenBash 2013” in the university’s Dan and Ada Rice Center.
  

   

• Red Stars add 3 players to NWSL roster Feb 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Red Stars have added three more free agents for the upcoming NWSL season. Former Olympic team captain Lori Chalupny, Taryn Hemmings, and Ella Masar will join the women's pro soccer club, which signed Olympic veteran Leslie Osborne last week.
  

   

• College of DuPage moving on in numbers Feb 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  The NCAA begins its football signing period Wednesday, and more than two dozen College of DuPage players will be signing.
  

   

• Event helps veterans navigate post-military life Jan 22, 2013 12:00 AM
  Are you a veteran looking for a job, considering going to school on a military grant, taking out a home loan or needing to apply for health care benefits but are having trouble figuring out where to start or how to get through all the paperwork?
  

   
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  New look for women’s soccer league Dec 17, 2012 12:00 AM
  It will be called the National Women's Soccer League, and the U.S. Soccer Federation will help finance and direct the eight-team league, which will include the Chicago Red Stars franchise. The USSF unveil its new logo and the name of the league Saturday night as the women's national team wrapped up its season with a closing victory over China. The NWSL will start play next spring and replaces the Women's Professional Soccer league, which folded in May after three seasons. Its predecessor, Women's United Soccer Association, lasted only three seasons, from 2001-03.
  

   

• Benedictine focused on education, not profit Oct 13, 2012 12:00 AM
  Benedictine University President William J. Carroll recently found himself serving on a panel and fielding questions from potential investors looking to profit from online education. The experience started him thinking about the differences between traditional universities and for-profit education companies and the future for both models.
  

   

• Wheaton stifles Benedictine under the lights Aug 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Wheaton College running back Peter Jarrett saw enough of the Thunder defense Thursday night to know how to describe his friends on the other side of the ball: "stifling," he said. The offense couldn't be stifled when it took the field also in a 48-7 nonconference victory against visiting Benedictine in the team's season opener.
  

   

• All-American Rejects, Neon Trees coming to Benedictine Aug 23, 2012 12:00 AM
  Benedictine University's annual BenFest will feature the synth-pop alternative group Neon Trees and rockers The All-American Rejects at the Village of Lisle-Benedictine University Sports Complex on Saturday. And before they hit the suburbs, members from both groups share details about what the crowds can look forward to at the show.
  

   
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  All-American Rejects bring evolving sound to Benedictine Aug 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  "With each record ... we try to make it more independent of the previous," Mike Kennerty of the All-American Rejects says. "We take a lot of time between albums. When we tour, we tour. So when we come back we are different people at that point, we are at a different mindset. And then we get to the studio and we just push ourselves even further and try things we've never tried before." His band headlines BenFest on Saturday in Lisle.
  

   
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  Neon Trees to perform at Benedictine University in Lisle Aug 21, 2012 12:00 AM
  "As the music gets out into homes and into people's businesses, it does surprise you who is on the other side of the radio," says Branden Campbell, bass player for Neon Trees.
  

   

• Three sisters set to graduate from Benedictine May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  Patricia Jones, Prescillia Spencer and Pamela Kuykendall -- sisters, grandmothers and first-generation college students -- achieve an academic hat trick today when they all graduate from Benedictine University. Jones, of Romeoville, and Spencer, of Naperville, will graduate with associate degrees in business administration. Kuykendall, also of Naperville, received an associate degree from Benedictine in 2010; today, she'll graduate with a bachelor of arts in management.