Education

The Office of Continuing/Community Education at Kaskaskia College has announced the schedule for KICK classes to be held in July at the Vandalia Campus.
• Arts and Crafts – A variety of fun and creative artistic projects will be the focus of this course.
Some of the items that may be made are beads and bracelets, picture frames, mosaics, candles, soap and jewelry boxes.
The class will be held Monday, July 1 and 8, from 1-3 p.m. The class is for students in grade 3 and up, and the cost is $15. The registration number is CKICK 5278 VA01D.

Quenten Austin, a student in the class of 2016 from Vandalia, presented research at Carthage College’s third annual Celebration of Scholars.
Austin presented “Genomic Analysis of LizLemon, a Novel Mycobacteriophage from Cluster B2 Isolated from Squirrel Feces,” a course project that explores phages capable of infecting the bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis, a non-pathogenic relative of M. tuberculosis.
This research can shed information how tuberculosis forms and can be cured.

UM-St. Louis College
of Optometry
Lacey Leann Feezel of Brownstown is among the May graduates at the University of Missouri-College of Optometry.
While a student at the college, Feezel was a member of Beta Sigma Kappa, 2010-13; American Optometric Student Association, 2009-13; Student Volunteer Optometric Services for Humanity, 2009-13; and National Optometric Student Association, 2010-13.
She plans to join an optometric practice in Effingham.