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Anderson, Strenge Crowned Viking Days King and Queen

Monday, October 14, 2013

Seniors Matthew Anderson and Amanda Strenge were crowned King and Queen of Viking Days 2013 at Coronation on Monday in the Elmen Center. View the full schedule for Viking Days 2013.

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Classroom in the Snow

Monday, October 14, 2013

When they signed up for an early-October field trip to the Black Hills, students in Dr. Craig Spencer's "Principles of Ecology" course were expecting to climb Harney Peak, study the wildlife in Custer State Park and hike through the Badlands. Mother Nature, however, had other plans.

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Augustana, Iowa State Students to Make Large-Scale Prints with Steamroller

Friday, October 11, 2013

Students in Augustana Associate Professor Scott Parsons’ printmaking classes are participating in Iowa State University’s 12^th annual steamroller printmaking event on Friday, Oct. 11. Eight Augustana College students will be printing three different designs.

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Augustana Ranked High for Academic and Athletic Success

Friday, October 4, 2013

Augustana ranks high in both academics and athletics in the 11th annual NCSA Athletic Recruiting Collegiate Power Rankings. The College is ranked eighth among NCAA Division II schools, No. 85 among 1,066 active NCAA member schools and is the only school listed in the overall top 100 from South Dakota.

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Hicks's Novel Published

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

“The Commandant of Lubizec,”a novel by Augustana Writer-in-Residence and Chair of the English and Journalism department Dr. Patrick Hicks, will be published by Steerforth/Random House in March 2014.

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Senior's Research on Health Care Coverage for Farmers Published

Friday, September 27, 2013

“Betting the Farm: Health Coverage, Behaviors and Concerns Among South Dakota Farmers,” a research article by Augustana senior Michael Dulitz (Webster, S.D.) will be featured in the October 2013 issue of South Dakota Medicine, the journal for the South Dakota State Medical Association.

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Students Register to Vote

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Thirty students registered to vote this week at the voter registration drive organized by students from Dr. Emily Wanless' "American Presidency" class, along with student representatives from COUPS (Committee of Undergraduate Political Scientists), the Augustana College Republicans and the Augustana Democrats.

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Student Researchers Present Findings

Friday, September 20, 2013

Students presented their summer research findings to peers and faculty earlier this week at Augustana's annual "Undergraduate Summer Research" poster presentation, held inside the Gilbert Science Center.

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Mikkelsen Library Team Provides Region-Wide Leadership

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Next week, more than 400 librarians from 12 states will arrive in Sioux Falls for "The Library: All Travelers Welcome," a conference of the Mountain Plains Library Association in conjunction with the South Dakota and North Dakota Library Associations. Members of Augustana's Mikkelsen Library have played key roles in planning the conference.

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Augustana Grad Works Behind the Screens at Google

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson competed in the fictionalized Google internship program in the summer movie “The Internship.” Well, they got the uniform right, and Laura (Pfeifer) Vardoulakis ’02 should know. She donned the new employee beanie earlier this year when she joined the user experience research team at Google’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

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