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Seventeen student athletes in five fall sports were named to an all-conference team.

Karen Chin was named CCIW "Co-Women's Volleyball Player of the Year."

Carthage setter Karen Chin was named 2014 American Volleyball Coaches Association second-team All-America.

Haleigh McPeek was named the CCIW Women's Tennis Player of the Year.

The following are among the first students in Carthage history to serve on the newly formed Diversity Leadership Council.

Carthage bested 10 teams from the area. In the past 6 1/2 years, Carthage has played FaceOff! 13 times, recording 11 wins and two second-place finishes.

The Lady Reds won the 2014 CCIW Women's Volleyball Tournament.

The Lady Reds won the 2014 regular season CCIW championship.

"Day After Night" was a world premiere adaptation of Anita Diamant's powerful novel, written by Carthage Theatre alum and award--winning playwright Mikaley Osley '14.

The Carthage College Theatre Department opened its 2014-15 main stage season with a production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Women's Soccer team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Men's Soccer team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Women's Cross Country team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Men's Cross Country team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Women's Tennis team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Men's Golf team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Women's Volleyball team.

The roster of the 2014 Carthage Football team.

The Carthage Vanguard is the official student research journal of Carthage College. Accepting entries from all disciplines, the Carthage Vanguard looks to publish all forms of research including senior theses, methods papers, dramaturgy and more!

This fall, Carthage welcomes 824 new students to the campus community. The total includes 714 incoming freshmen and 110 transfer students. They come from 23 states -- as far away as Alaska, Arizona, California, North Carolina, and Oregon -- and five foreign countries: China, Greece, Ireland, Japan, and Kenya.

Daisy Bower '16 and Eric Ireland '15 won the best research poster award in the undergraduate competition at the 24th Annual Wisconsin Space Conference.

For a seventh straight year, the Carthage Microgravity Team conducted research aboard a NASA parabolic aircraft.

The Carthage Theatre Department embarked on a two-week international adventure to Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The group perfomed a 90-minute version of last season's New Play Initiative production "No Name" by Jeffrey Hatcher.

This tour focused on how ancient cities and sanctuaries in the Roman world were set up to accommodate religious rituals in a busy sacred calendar. Students experienced the places and spaces where people lived, worked, and worshiped, to understand the pervasive nature of Roman religious practices.

The lowland tropical rainforest of Costa Rica is home to a diverse assemblage of life forms. This study tour was designed for nature lovers who want to explore the jungle to learn more about diversity. Behavior was examined from both the neuroscience and evolution perspective. Biodiversity field surveys - plants, insects, amphibians, birds, and more - gave way to short-term, student-designed field studies in the rainforest.

This course examined the development of the modern movements in art and theatre at the end of the 19th century, and the impact and influences of the movement into the 21st century in New York.

From June 8 to 23, 2014, history professor Eric Pullin lead a group targeting the most important objectives related to World War II in France, Great Britain, and Belgium.

This course focused on how physical geographic factors and human intervention have affected the flora and fauna of the world's largest freshwater tropical island. The tour included a trip to the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua. Students were required to engage in significant research about the varied landscape and history of Nicaragua before leaving the campus. The course also contained a service learning component.

China possesses a long history and a complex geography, and it has distinctive cultural heritages. On this trip, students were encouraged to learn broadly in the context of a rapidly changing civilization and developed an understanding of the class material by direct contact with the people, communities, businesses, places, cuisine, art, religion, and architecture that served as their unwritten text.

Students learned a variety of journalistic writing styles and engaged in sports journalism as they attended baseball games throughout California. Students attended Padres, Dodgers, Angels, Giants and Athletics games, with a total of six to eight games over two weeks. Other professional athletic events and stadium tours, as well as non-sports-related cultural activities and museums, were also a part of the study tour.