Students will present individual research projects at the 36th annual John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference on ...

In 1869, Major John Wesley Powell led the first expedition through the Grand Canyon, navigating the Colorado River with a crew of untrained frontiersmen. Facing challenges such as starvation and ...

Illinois Wesleyan University will host its 36th annual John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference on Saturday, April 12.

Previous recipients include John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed); explorer John Wesley Powell; conservationist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louis Bromfield; pioneering botanist Lucy Braun ...

“Men on Boats” was written based on Powell’s journals throughout the real expedition. Hangret read some of the original journal entries to understand her character and how he would interact with ...

John Wesley Powell and his 1869 expedition pushed into the Green River on May 24, 1869, the first American explorers to challenge the mighty river across Colorado, Utah, and into the Grand Canyon.

Katherine Goss, Dezerea Powell, Zoe Ruth Brizan, Brody Calvert, Lorenzo Lewis and Ben Harwood all earned wins in two events ...

Pittsfield’s girls and Wahconah’s boys each boasted a pair of double-winners on Friday in the season’s second track and field ...

Mordecai, the son of Northside Methodist head coach Mike Mordecai, transferred in December from NMA to Wicksburg and starred on the mound and at the plate Tuesday night.