Junior Zach Ludens, triple majoring in history, government and economics, is the recipient of the 2010 Augustana Library Associates Research Award, presented at the Augustana Symposium on Saturday, April 17. His winning paper is entitled ''Protecting the...

By: Alan Thompson

Next fall, New Student Orientation (NSO) will tribute the college's 150th birthday in its 2010 program NSO: The Anniversary Edition. NSO Committee Co-Chair and junior Lizzy Reid said the NSO Central Committee intentionally chose the anniversary theme bec...

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As the year comes to a close, there is a buzzword among the senior class and mdash;bittersweet. Many are anticipating graduation and their next step in life, but are sad that this means leaving the place they have called home and the people they have ca...

By: Sara Hughes

After Associate Academic Dean Rick Davis' death in February, Augustana officials were left with the task of selecting someone to succeed him in office. Effective Aug. 1, that person will be current chair of the Natural Science Division, biology professor ...

By: Alison Champine

The Viking Days Committee has established a theme and created a new subcommittee that will ensure the Viking Days of Augustana's sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) will be ''Happy Days.'' The theme, ''Happy Viking Days,'' for the 2010 Viking Days, Oct....

Government professor Joel Johnson is brushing up on his German this semester in order to prepare for his Fulbright Scholar appointment in Hesse, Germany, next year. The Fulbright Program was established by Arkansas Sen. J. William Fulbright in 1946 to fo...

By: Andrew Sogn

The U.S. economy is slowly beginning to recover from the downturn in 2008, but seniors looking to break into the job market are still facing some difficulties. Augustana boasts a 93 percent job placement rate for its 2009 graduates, but some begin to won...

By: Erin Mangen

Two Augustana business students competed statewide and won substantial scholarships last week at separate business-related competitions. Junior Kate Tobin, majoring in sports management and business with a marketing emphasis, won second place and a $2,00...

While some seniors are struggling to find jobs and secure post-graduation plans, Augustana's seven graduating sign language interpreting majors have reason to feel confident about their futures. Of the seven graduates, four already have job offers. All o...

Director of News Information and campus fixture Bruce Conley is hanging up his hat this year in favor of a more relaxing life. I'm going to miss it here, Conley said. But it's time for new things, new ideas and brighter minds. Conley started his career ...

The Covenant Award for Excellence was presented to senior Dan Schoen prior to the keynote address for the Augustana Symposium last Saturday in the Gilbert Science Center. The Covenant Awards honor students who exemplify the Augustana Core Values - Christ...

By: Katie Randall

On April 16, Jamie Horter received news that she had been selected to carry on a new tradition as this year's senior speaker for Augustana's Commencement ceremony. The Honorary Degree and Commencement Committee selected Horter after reviewing her and one...

By: Erin Mangen

The Augustana's Chapel of Reconciliation student congregation has named its leadership team for 2010-11. The student congregation (South Dakota Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) gathers regularly in the Chapel of Reconciliation. Studen...

By: Corey Hermanson

If you see a band of cross-dressing men sprinting across Sioux Falls Saturday night soliciting strangers for money, do not immediately call Campus Safety reporting some odd sort of prostitution ring. The runners will be men from select American Cancer So...

Juniors Joel Thompson and Drew Doshier were elected next year's Augustana Student Association (ASA) Senate president and vice president, respectively, following Wednesday's student-wide election. They defeated opponents junior Zach Ludens and sophomore M...

By: Kirstie Wollman

Director of News Information and campus fixture Bruce Conley is hanging up his hat this year in favor of a more relaxing life. I'm going to miss it here, Conley said. But it's time for new things, new ideas and brighter minds. Conley started his career ...

The annual Greenfest included a forum and panel discussion on clean energy co-sponsored by Augie Green, Focus the Nation, the Will Steger Foundation and Global Exchange last Saturday, April 10, at Augustana. This year, [Greenfest] was part of a larger co...

Augustana sophomore Jared Soundy plans to spend much of his summer at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) participating in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Summer Institute. Computer science professor D...

Next fall, students can expect to see major remodeling changes and safety updates in Stavig Hall, similar to renovations made in Granskou Hall last summer. Remodeling and updates for Stavig totaling $1.4 million are slated to begin this summer, including...

By: Kari Hipsak

The Augustana Symposium will be celebrating its tenth year on April 17. As described on the Augustana Web site, the Symposium is a collegial gathering intended to foster the investigation and discussion of important matters. This Plato-inspired event giv...