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Augustana College's John Deere Planetarium and Fryxell Geology Museum will be open to the public on Saturday, April 25, for an evening of gazing and space shows. The event will include indoor and outdoor programs in the planetarium, observatory and geology museum.
Aine Moffit, a pre-med major from LeClaire, Iowa, chose Augustana because it offered her the opportunity to continue wrestling while staying close to home and pursuing strong academics. In the final bout of her collegiate career, Moffit made history for Augustana's five-year-old women’s wrestling program.
Both Gaia Splendore and Leroy Gawu-Mensah were surprised and honored to learn they had won the Nils Hasselmo Award for Academic Pursuit. Inspired by the impact of his own Augustana experience, Dr. Nils Hasselmo '57 created the award to help future educators access professional opportunities.
“Participate” runs as a student-led program within Augustana’s Office of Student Life and Leadership, connecting students with community partners and volunteer opportunities across the Quad Cities.
A senior at Augustana and part-time employee at John Deere, Zekarias Asaminew is completing a bioinformatics and computer science double major tailored to his interests in health care, biology and coding, a path he developed through Augustana’s contract major, with support from faculty across multiple departments.
Following a competitive national selection process, Dr. Jane Simonsen and Dr. Çağlar Çetin-Ayşe received two of only 17 grants recently awarded to members of NetVUE (Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education) institutions.
The Futurist Thinking Series at Augustana College is a high-energy dialogue where innovators and big thinkers tackle the questions shaping the next decade of education, leadership and human potential. The March session is titled "What AI Can't Teach: What Will a Student Remember in 20 Years?"
Students will perform a composition recital.
Dr. Amanda Wilmsmeyer, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, will present "Controlling the Chaos: Student-Designed Experiments for Smarter Sensors." This public lecture celebrates Dr. Wilmsmeyer's appointment as the Robert W. Beart Chair in Chemistry at Augustana College.
