Both Gaia Splendore and Leroy Gawu-Mensah were surprised and honored to learn they had won the Nils Hasselmo Award for Academic Pursuit. Inspired by the impact of his own Augustana experience, Dr. Nils Hasselmo '57 created the award to help future educators access professional opportunities.
Following a competitive national selection process, Dr. Jane Simonsen and Dr. Çağlar Çetin-Ayşe received two of only 17 grants recently awarded to members of NetVUE (Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education) institutions.
Rebecca Hopman never expected to meet one of the most influential people in her life when she was a student worker in Augustana's Special Collections. But Lydia Olsson’s diaries sparked a connection across time for Hopman — and a career devoted to preserving stories like Olsson’s.
When the Mississippi River overran its banks in April 1965, hundreds of Quad-Cities residents suspended their normal activities to help constrain the rising waters.
