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July  02, 2009

In the news: Max Petersen

June

  • A newspaper columnist trying to find out more about a childhood friend, Signe Chamberlin, finds a contact through Augustana.
  • "If Enron had had an Augie grad for a CEO, they would have never had the problems that they had," says Augustana alumus and trustee Murray Gerber in an interview.
  • Mallory Zimmerman, Augustana junior, is talks about her work this summer at Urbandale's Youth in Parks program that combines community service and recreation. Zimmerman attended the camp as a sixth-grader.
  • Augustana Dining Services director Garry Griffith talks about the Farm to Fork program and other initiatives at the National Value Added Agriculture Conference.
  • Dave Dehnel, political science professor at Augustana, contributes to the discussion of the Supreme Court's recent decision on judicial campaign contributions.
  • Bill Steinhauser, president and CEO of Bethany for Children & Families, gives the Augustana community a public thanks.
  • The Quad City Times and The Dispatch and Rock Island Argus visit Augustana's first Human Anatomy day for high school students in the cadaver lab.
  • The arrival of a new Steinway grand piano is chronicled in an audio slideshow.
  • Dr. Lee Carkner, director of the John Deere Planetarium at Augustana. talks about facility in an article about star-gazing opportunities in the area.
  • Vice President of Communication and Enrollment W. Kent Barnds is interviewed about higher education in the Quad-Cities area and the possible expansion of Western Illinois University.
  • Augie Acres, the college's student garden and farmer's market, is in the news: WQAD and The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus.

May

  • Augustana's 149th commencement ceremony is chronicled by The Dispatch and The Rock Island Argus.
  • Jack Neely, who writes about culture for the Knoxville, Tenn., website Metropulse, tries to track down a childhood benefactor with ties to Augustana.
  • W. Kent Barnds, vice president of Enrollment & Communication at Augustana, discusses the true value of a college education in the Denver Post online.
  • Augustana's budding partnership with nearby Longfellow Elementary school will involve all departments of the college.
  • Megan Renne and Tara Bordenaro, soon-be-be Augustana graduates, are interviewed about their plans for the future.
  • The college won the Rock Island Preservation Society's Adaptive Reuse Award for its Evald Hall project. "Though this building has undergone modifications in the past two years... important exterior architectural features, such as its stone walls, have been repaired and restored."
  • New student community gardens at Augustana are included in a story about the trend toward more gardens on vacant city-owned lots in Rock Island.
  • Professor Melissa McBain's play about her mother, "Going Back Naked," is highlighted in The Dispatch and Rock Island Argus and the River Cities Reader. McBain's role as producer of the annual Quad City Playwrights Festival also is featured.
  • Alumnus Dean Peterson, now an economics professor at Seattle University, tells an interviewer he took the job in Seattle because he wanted to go back to a smaller school with a religious affiliation and a liberal arts focus.
  • Student Dana Swanson writes about catching "farm fever" while learning about farming at Wesley Acres in an essay for Radish magazine.
  • Opera@Augustana fills a void for local opera fans with its May performance.
  • Professor Melissa McBain talks about her play "Going Back Named," based on letters between her parents in the 1930s.

April

  • Professors Norm Moline and Charles Mahaffey receive an Eddy Award from River Action for their work in using the Mississippi River as a classroom.
  • Alumnus Drew Wessels' bike ride from coast-to-coast will raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
  • The Lutheran legacy of the college is highlighted in a story about the first president of Augustana, Lars Paul Esbjorn.
  • Ralph Troll, professor emeritus at Augustana and a U.S. Army veteran, spoke at Holocaust memorials about his childhood in Germany under the Nazis.
  • A lecture at Augustana by Dr. George Gmelch, a University of San Francisco anthropology professor and former minor leaguer, makes news in the sports section.
  • Professor Stephen Warren talks about his work as a consultant on the PBS documentary "Tecumseh's Vision."
  • Coach and professor Paul Olsen is profiled in the Quad City Times and The Dispatch/Rock Island Argus before the dedication of the Paul V. Olsen Track April 18.
  • Fred Marzolph, who photographed thousands of Augustana students at athletic events from 1958-2005 and received an honorary degree from the college, is profiled as he prepares to join an Honor Flight for veterans to Washingon, D.C. He was a combat photographer during World War II. He was the official photographer for the NCAA Division III tournaments at Augustana.
  • Augustana President Steve Bahls discusses "How to Help Skittish Boards Keep Their Nerve in a Recession" in a commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
  • President Bahls' speech to the Rock Island Kiwanis Club is featured on the River Cities Reader website.
  • Luke Scarlata from J. Sterling Morton High School in Berwyn, Ill., is called a "prized recruit" for Augustana basketball.
  • Trudi Buck's presentation on biological anthropology in England, centering on shoes as a tool to learn about ancient civilization, is reported along with a photo of Dr. Buck and a Roman sandal.
  • Catherine Goebel, chair of Augustana's art history department, is interviewed by The Dispatch/Argus and the Quad-City Times about the new Centre for Whistler Criticism.

March

  • Blog for Iowa reports on the Quad Cities Coming Together: What We Need in Health Care Reform event held at Augustana. The Dispatch-Argus and the Quad City Times also reported on the health-care reform event.
  • Augustana sophomore Matt Peters wrote about a trip to Mexico with Student Advocates for Awareness or Refugee and Immigration Issues (SAFARI) for the Quad City Times. The piece was headlined, "Augie goes to the border." Peters, photo editor of the student newspaper the Observer, also contributed photos.
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February

January

  • Junior Marie Dienhart is included in a feature story about local internships for college students.
  • News coverage of annual meeting of Christian and Jewish ethicists in Chicago included the topic of food ethics. Laura Hartman of Augustana College presented a paper on it: "Hartman said she hoped consumers would simply begin to think more about their buying and eating choices, what she termed “an ethos of attention” to food," according to Religion & Ethics Newsweekly at PBS.org.
  • Augustana Sights and Sounds is featured in a story and slideshow in the Quad City Times as well as the River Cities Reader.
  • Kent Barnds, vice president of Communication and Enrollment, talks about the trend toward more parents taking too much control of the application process in "Parents need not apply ..." in the online edition of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

  • Alumna Johnnie Woods is profiled in a piece about her work for the Youth Service Bureau of Rock Island County.
  • Think you’re cold? Smithsonian.com asks our own Dr. William Hammer how he dresses when it’s truly frigid.
  • Student Adam Setter heard Barack Obama speak in person in 2005, when the Rockford Register Star honored its Young American winners. He is one of those asked to reflect on that day.
  • Dara Wegman-Geedey, professor of microbiology and immunology, discusses human papillomavirus and the pros and cons of vaccination.
  • Joshua Schipp is profiled in a story about his project of teaching a new, six-week 4-H course called the “Teen Green Squad” that seeks to get high school-age students involved in environmental issues.
  • The Phi Rho sorority and Alpha Phi Omega-Lambda Rho chapter received thanks for assisting the Milan Santa Fund in raising more than $10,000 during its 69th holiday campaign.
  • Dean of the College Jeff Abernathy is featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education: "An Illinois liberal-arts college bucks the trend and goes on a hiring binge"
  • Augustana professor Steve Warren is cited as a scholarly source for an upcoming documentary, "The Shawnee Dance (Tecumseh's Legacy)" in a story by Indian Country Communications.

December 2008