Following a week of fun and festive homecoming events, student floats took to the the streets near campus on Saturday, Oct. 12, for the Viking Days parade.

The Department of Music at Augustana University announced today that the 2019 “Friend of Augustana Music” award recipient is Brad Heegel '76, of Sioux Falls. The award will be presented during the Viking Days “Command Performance” on Friday, Oct. 11, at the Washington Pavilion.

Seniors Logan Hattervig, Carthage, South Dakota, and Kirtana Krishna Kumar, Ghaziabad, India, were crowned the 2019 Viking Days King and Queen at Coronation on Monday.

With the 2019-20 academic year officially underway, Augustana welcomes nine new faculty to our AU community this fall.

The countdown to Viking Days 2019 is officially on. Meet the members of the 2019 Royal Court.

In September 2019, Studio 47 launched its own podcast based on the popular book, “Calling All Years Good: Christian Vocation Throughout Life’s Seasons,” and enlisted campus speakers to address each life stage.

The Augustana String Quartet, a performance group of undergraduate students, debuted a new album of contemporary/pop string quartet music titled "Happy Together." The album is available on Spotify, Google Play, Apple Music/iTunes, Amazon Music and more.

Bishop Munib Younan, former Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land and the past president of the Lutheran World Federation, will visit Augustana University and the Sioux Falls community Sept. 18-23. A leading global voice in Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and around the world, Bishop Younan will spend time with Augustana students, faculty and staff. He also plans to engage area churches to discuss interfaith relations. All of the events are free and open to the public.

Together with their professors, Augustana's newest Vikings — the Class of 2023 — witnessed the official opening of the 2019-20 academic year on  at the August 27 Opening Convocation ceremony. The event marked the beginning of the University's 159th academic year and was held on campus in the Elmen Center.

Mayor Paul TenHaken is asking organizations across the city to help recruit volunteers and share information for this weekend's cleanup efforts following the mid-week storms.