Students: Financing Study Away info session May 10
Students are invited to join the Office of International and Off-Campus Programs (IOP) on Friday, May 10, for an info session on how to finance and budget for a study away experience.
Financing Study Away info session
Join the Office of International and Off-Campus Programs (IOP) for an info session on how you can finance and budget for a study away experience!
If you have been considering a study away program but have questions or concerns about affordability, this info session is for you.
This is a casual, drop-in style info session, so feel free to come at any time between 3 and 4:30 p.m. IOP will also have international chocolates for you to sample to get you in the traveling spirit.
Last Lecture and Senior Toast
Seniors are invited to the annual Last Lecture and Senior Toast. Three of the most influential professors, chosen by the senior class, will offer a few words of wisdom and inspiration before graduation.
President Andrea Talentino will offer a champagne toast, and each senior who attends will receive a commemorative champagne flute.
The names of the professors chosen will be revealed on the night of the Last Lecture.
Seniors will need to provide a government-issued ID upon arrival in order to receive champagne. Sparkling grape juice also will be available.
A photographer will be available to snap photos on a gold carpet!
Doors open at 6:45 p.m. and the program will begin at 7:30.
Sponsored by the Office of Alumni Engagement.
Class of 2024 taco party
Complimentary tacos (veg., gf.) and rice and beans will be served. We're also serving up delicious agua fresca! The taco party will take place in the Lindberg Center.
Sponsored by the Office of Alumni Engagement.
Note: Due to weather, the "A" photo on the field has been canceled.
Class of 2024 "A" photo
This photo will be taken in the shape of the Augie "A." It's a tradition for first-year students to gather on the football field to get their class photo taken, but because of the pandemic, we weren't able to take the class photo.
Please be at the football field by 5 p.m. to get in the shape of the "A." The photo will be taken at 5:30 p.m. sharp.
Sponsored by the Office of Alumni Engagement.
Geography Department 75th Anniversary
Augustana College will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its geography department April 26-27, with alumni from the Quad-Cities and across the country returning to mark the occasion. The public is invited to presentations at the John Deere Planetarium on Saturday, April 27, to hear how Augustana alumni are leading and contributing to important work in their chosen fields today.
Presentation schedule:
- 9-9:45 a.m.: Norm Moline, professor emeritus, "The 75 Year History of the Geography Department"
- 9:50-10:15 a.m.: Paul Brinkman '91, head of the Environmental Humanities Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, "Now Is the Time to Collect: Salvage Zoology and the Colonial Geography of Extinction"
- 10:15-10:40 a.m.: Tom Klak '79, professor of environmental studies, University of New England (Biddeford, Maine), "Speed Breeding Transgenic American Chestnut: A Missing Keystone Species of the Eastern U.S."
- 10:55-11:20 a.m.: Dawn Carlson '90, traffic engineer at RK&K Civil Engineering (Atlanta, Ga.)
- 11:20-11:45 a.m.: Kirk Huiffaker '92, principal of Kirk Huffaker Preservation Strategies (Salt Lake City, Utah), "Past Forward – The Power of Preservation"
- 11:45 a.m.-12:10 p.m.: Brad Jokisch '89, associate professor of geography, Ohio University, "International Migration: A Geographer’s Perspective and Experience (Latin America focus)"
Geography Department 75th Anniversary
Augustana College will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its geography department April 26-27, with alumni from the Quad-Cities and across the country returning to mark the occasion. The public is invited to presentations at the John Deere Planetarium on Saturday, April 27, to hear how Augustana alumni are leading and contributing to important work in their chosen fields today.
Juniors selected for Texas Medical Center summer research internship
Selected students will take part in the paid, full-time, 10-week experience at the Texas Medical Center in Houston this summer.
Augie Acres planting party rescheduled for May 4-5
Join the Augustana Local Agriculture Society at Augie Acres (3219-3221 6th Ave., Rock Island) on Saturday, May 4 (10 a.m.-12 p.m.) and Sunday, May 5 (1-3 p.m.) for a planting party! The group will do spring planting in the main plot and raised beds and will continue landscaping the garden. No experience is required to help.