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Video: St. Baldrick's 2016
More than $11,000 dollars was raised to aid childhood cancer research at the St. Baldrick's event on April 14. Dozens of students had their heads shaved in a show of support.
Pole vaulter balances academics, activities and athletics
Mackenzie Butcher, a pole vaulter from Colorado Springs, Colo., qualified for the NCAA Division III Indoor National Championship in her first season after a tie with her CCIW conference competition. She cleared 11 feet, 7¾ inches to tie for 12th at the indoor nationals. Her record height is 12-2 ½ — the third-highest pole vault in Augustana history.
Get to know the Vikings
Photos and fun facts about the 15 Vikings traveling to Salem, Va., for Friday’s final-four game in the NCAA DIII basketball championship weekend.
2016 Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award winners
Camilla Best's poem, "If Victoria's Secret Clearance Bras Could Talk," won the 18th annual Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award. Second-place went to Alyssa Froehling for "lost weight" and third to Alice Roberson, "They Make it So Difficult for Us to Love Ourselves."
Augustana adds two new sports
Augustana College will add men's volleyball and women's bowling to the varsity lineup. Both teams' first seasons are set to begin in the 2017-18 school year. Amid uncertainty around higher education at both the state and federal level, and with demographic changes in the Midwest, Augustana leaders are strategically investing in new programs to attract more students.
International student placement tests
Information about placement testing for international students
Video: Heather Slomski presents River Reading
Heather Slomski is the author of "The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons," winner of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award and published by the University of Iowa Press. Her stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, American Letters & Commentary, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She was a recipient of a 2013 Minnesota State Artist Initiative Grant and a 2013 Minnesota Emerging Writers' Grant.
Lecture video: Sustainable development strategy in the Arctic
Dr. Andrey Petrov presents "The Other Arctic: Knowledge, Creativity and the New Frontier" as part of the annual lecture series sponsored by the Augustana Center for Polar Studies. Dr. Petrov is an associate professor of geography and geospatial technology at the University of Northern Iowa. He studies Arctic social and socio-ecological systems, sustainability, human development and global change in remote indigenous communities of Russia and Canada.
“One of the biggest things that I have learned is that I am very independent. Augustana has helped me to realize this by living off of campus and through studying abroad.”Read More
Five honored at track championships
Five Augustana athletes earned All-America honors at last weekend NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships.