Rebecca Crown Library at Dominican University is one of 75 libraries across the country to receive a grant from the Library of America to support public programs celebrating Latino poetry.

Kaetrena Davis Kendrick has been selected to serve as the 2024-25 Follett Chair within Dominican University’s School of Information Studies.

Davis Kendrick has extensive experience as a research librarian and educator. In 2019, she was named Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by the Association of College and Research Libraries. 

Dominican University marked Juneteenth several days ahead of the national holiday with a community barbecue and gathering on campus on June 13.

Marjorie Adam Clark, founder and executive director of the West Communities Juneteenth Collaborative, addressed those gathered on the Quad with a rousing message about storytelling and how stories are the “bedrock of our collective identity."

Dr. Brooke Reavey, associate professor of marketing, was the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant, allowing her to work with entrepreneurship students from the University of Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania this summer.

Laura (Merlo) Strybel MAT ’07 was recently recognized as a Distinguished Teacher with Noble Schools, a charter public school network in Chicago.

The distinction celebrates teachers for their outstanding and transformational performance, and for achieving an “exceptional impact” with students. Seven teachers were inducted into the Distinguished Teachers program for the 2023-24 school year.

Strybel teaches environmental science at Noble Street College Prep in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood.