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			<title>Augustana announces new Board of Trustees members</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:58:54 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana College welcomes two members to its Board of Trustees, Christopher R. Coulter and Dr. Lois Levine-Mundie.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Augustana appoints Kim Brunner as Chair of Board</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:06 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana College is pleased to announce Kim M. Brunner has been elected chair of the college's Board of Trustees.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Center for Polar Studies inaugural lecture Dec. 2</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:35:48 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana will celebrate the opening of the new Center for Polar Studies with an inaugural lecture by Dr. William Hammer, director of the center and discoverer of the first dinosaur in Antarctica. The lecture is entitled “From Giant Amphibians to Dinosaurs: Antarctica during the Age of Reptiles” and will be held on December 2 at 6:30p.m. in the John Deere Lecture Hall (820 38th St.).]]></description>
			
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			<title>Augustana adds lacrosse as 11th women's sport</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:18:18 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana College is pleased to announce the addition of women's lacrosse to the Vikings' varsity roster. Lacrosse will become the 11th women's varsity sport, joining volleyball, soccer, cross country, tennis, golf, basketball, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, softball and swimming.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Families build new Christmas tradition with Handel’s Messiah</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:06:51 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Handel Oratorio Society will share a special Christmas tradition with families throughout the Quad-City community with its performances of Handel’s Messiah on Saturday, December 12, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, December 13, at 2 p.m.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Professor's research prods state to save flower</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:48:04 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Illinois taxpayers and the research of an Augustana professor and student are helping protect one of the state's native plants. The wild blue larkspur of the hill prairies, which is found only in three Illinois counties, may soon be on the state's threatened plant list with the approval of the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board this month.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Opera@Augustana brings Christmas alive</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:20:23 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana’s opera singers will delight audiences with their heartwarming performance of “Little Thieves of Bethlehem” from Friday, November 20, through Sunday, November 22, at 8 p.m. in Wallenberg Hall at Denkmann Memorial Building (3520 7th Ave.).]]></description>
			
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			<title>John Deere Planetarium Presents Holiday Show</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:14:22 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Quad City community is invited to add a meaningful note to their holiday season with the John Deere Planetarium’s (820 38th St.) annual holiday show “Season of Light.” The show will be offered at 7 p.m. on weekdays and at 2 p.m. on weekends from December 5-17, 2009.]]></description>
			
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			<title>40% of Augustana students now study abroad</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:36:07 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>College to host psychology conference</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:54:52 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana College will host the 19th annual Tri-State Undergraduate Psychology research conference Saturday, Oct. 31. The conference provides psychology students who have completed research projects with an opportunity to present their work to peers and faculty from schools in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Joined by a mural: Students paint to connect</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:33:23 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Students are painting a large, bright mural along 38th Street to promote the connection between cultures, the college and the community.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Intern comes back from Uganda with a big idea</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:10:23 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Senior biology major Troy Curtis isn't waiting until after medical school to make a difference in international health care. An internship in Uganda, Africa, this past summer inspired him to initiate a life-changing service project: planning and funding the construction of a tuberculosis clinic to serve more than 1.5 million impoverished Ugandans.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Student experiences go with STAND film</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:06:39 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[STAND, a new campus organization that works to stop genocide, will show a documentary on the civil war in Darfur Oct. 21 that was inspired by two current Augustana students.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Augustana in the news: 200th birthdays</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:31:33 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Active Minds founder encourages students to start talking</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:19:23 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Active Minds Inc. Founder and Executive Director Alison Malmon will speak at Augustana’s community convocation on Thursday, October 22, at 10:30 a.m. in Centennial Hall (3703 7th Ave.). Her lecture entitled “What do you wish you could talk about?” is free and open to the public.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Guest Curator Offers Snapshot of Andy Warhol Exhibition</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:39:13 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A newly donated Andy Warhol collection at the Augustana Art Museum will be the focus of a lecture by guest curator Dr. Gregory Gilbert on Tuesday, October 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Larson Hall in Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts (3701 7th Ave.).]]></description>
			
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			<title>Geography symposium to mark 60 years of learning</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 21:01:04 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Augustana geography department will mark its 60th anniversary by hosting a special two-day symposium on Friday, October 16, and Saturday, October 17 in the John Deere Planetarium lecture hall (820 38th St.). More than a dozen alumni and professors will speak on geography related topics to celebrate the formation of the program. The symposium is free and open to the public.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Speaker to tackle ‘dumb swede’ Stereotype</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:28:16 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Anne-Charlotte Harvey, an accomplished performer and Swedish-American of the Year, will present the 2009 Fritiof Ander Lecture in Immigration History at Augustana College on Friday, October 9, at 7 p.m. in Room 102 in the Science Building (726 35th St.).  Harvey, a professor emerita of theater at San Diego State University, will explore the “dumb Swede” stereotype in popular American culture through the comic character Yon Yonson.  The lecture is free and open to the public.]]></description>
			
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			<title>Archaeologist’s lecture brings Ancient Rome to Quad Cities</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:11:57 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Archaeologist Dr. Naomi Norman will share her discoveries of excavation at a famous ancient Roman burial site at the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) lecture on Tuesday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102 of the Augustana Science Building (726 35th St.).]]></description>
			
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			<title>Cramer lauds Augustana’s Gerber</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:08:30 CST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Augustana College trustee and alumnus Murry Gerber was back in the spotlight this week, answering questions from Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Mad Money.”]]></description>
			
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