BIOL 210 help session
A help session will be offered for BIOL 210 students for Monday's final exam.Swenson Center co-hosts seminar with Swedish Embassy
The seminar “Swedish Footprints in the U.S.—New Perspectives on Swedish-American History” explores new ways of understanding Swedish-American history.
Soul Food Dinner
Black Student Union will be hosting its annual Soul Food Dinner where students will have the opportunity to meet and mingle with new people as well as celebrate family and friendships as a community. There will be community performances from singing to dancing.
The dress attire for this event is business casual.
Survivor safe space
+IMPACT is holding a safe space for survivors and allies alike to come and find solace and support through one another. Studentcs can drop by or choose to stay the full time. Feel free to come share, listen, or to learn about available resources.
This event will take place from 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
CARE pumpkin smash
Relieve stress from finals in a spooky way by smashing pumpkins while listening to Halloween music. The cost is $3 or four canned goods to smash one pumpkin and all proceeds go towards the Riverbend Foodbank.
Students may pay in person or through Venmo.
Women's Tennis captures CCIW title for third time in four years
Augustana won three singles titles and three doubles championships and the Vikings were represented in the championship matches in five of six singles and all three doubles flights.
Augie reflection: Joe Kellen
All students are invited to attend this week's Augie Reflections featuring Joe Kellen. Kellen is a senior from Rockford, Ill., majoring in biochemistry and pre-medicine. He is involved with FCA and is a member of the men's basketball team.
Augie Reflections is a weekly 20 minute chapel service featuring a personal reflection by a senior Augustana student, faculty or staff member.
ScribeAmerica
ScribeAmerica will have a publicity table in the Brew from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
ScribeAmerica hires and trains students to become medical scribes. The central role of the medical scribe is to relieve the physician of clerical or secretarial duties; thus allowing the physician to focus more directly on clinical care. The scribe observes the physician during patient encounters and enters information into the patient's electronic chart under the direction of the physician.
ScribeAmerica currently has several part-time openings as well as full-time and gap year opportunities in Family Medicine, Neurosurgery, Gastroenterology, OB/GYN, and Pain Clinics.
My Story: Surviving the Holocaust
Steen Metz will speak about his life experience in advance of the Augustana performance of the opera "Brundibar." This children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása was written in 1938 but was not performed until 1942 when it premiered at the Vinohrady Jewish Boy’s Orphanage in the Prague ghetto.
Metz and his family were arrested and deported to the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp from their home in Odense, Denmark. He was 8. Some 15,000 children passed through Theresienstadt. He is one of fewer than 1,500 who survived.
Map and Munch: Social and Ecological Changes on the Upper Mississippi
Dr. Matt Fockler will give a research talk at the geography department's "Map and Munch." His topic will be "Two-Mississippi : Viewing Social and Ecological Changes on the Upper Mississippi River since the Lock and Dam Project."
Dr. Fockler is an assistant professor of geography and environmental studies.
In 1930, Congress authorized the construction of the lock and dam system on the Upper Mississippi River, to guarantee that it would remain navigable. The system also altered human and ecological systems on the river.
Dr. Fockler used repeat photography and computer mapping to discover how the river has changed since the lock and dam system began.