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Head Vikings football coach Steve Bell

Viking football players lend a hand to water line inventory project

More than 100 Augustana Vikings football players hit the streets of Rock Island near campus and Saukie Golf Course to assist with the water service line inventory project. 

Mural at Gerber Center

Augustana alumni and friends’ giving hits $16.9 million during 2022-23

3,640 Augustana alumni and friends made gifts to Augustana during the 2022-2023 fiscal year.

Senior Alexander Tosetti awarded Sikich Visionary Scholarship

Alexander Tosetti, a senior accounting and business administration major, plans to become a certified public accountant.

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Augustana student research assistants and staff

Augustana officials, students canvas neighborhoods for lead drinking water pipes survey

Student research assistants were joined by President Andrea Talentino and Dr. Dianna Shandy for a morning of knocking on doors in Rock Island to encourage residents to report the material of their water service lines. 

Matt Ozanic

Baseball’s Ozanic wins $10,000 NCAA scholarship

The NCAA honored baseball's Matt Ozanic  ’22 with the prestigious $10,000 Postgraduate Scholarship to use for graduate study at a university or professional school.

Alyssa Motzel

'16 grad combats newborn mortality in rural Kenya

By developing curriculum to teach neonatal resuscitation protocol to medical practitioners in Mutomo, Kenya, Dr. Alyssa Nelson '16 Motzel was determined to not only teach her peers, but also help them continue to train others.

Josh Wintroub

Vikings coach keeps Wintroub '22 in the game

Pitcher Josh Wintroub  ’22 did not play his last year of high school and thought his playing days were over. But Augustana Coach Greg Wallace '88 saw Wintroub’s potential and recruited the right-hander to join the Vikings.

Augustana announces 2023-2024 athletic sponsorship opportunities

Augustana announces a full slate of athletic sponsorship opportunities for the 2023-2024 school year. Opportunities include website and livestream promotion as well as game sponsorships and student-athlete of the week promotions.

John Murabito '80, Sofia Briggs '23 and Isabelle Jordan '23

A salute to Board Chair John Murabito

Augustana College Board of Trustees Chair John Murabito '80 talks with Student Government Association (SGA) leaders on the patio outside the Brew by the Slough. Sofia Briggs '23 (center) and Isabelle Jordan '23 were SGA's vice president and president, respectively, during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Ben Castro

Castro '21 positioned to 'help be the change in the Illinois Quad Cities'

A project led by Ben Castro '21 to better understand uneven food access and food insecurities within QC MetroLINK’s service area placed fourth in a national competition. The project is tied directly to Castro’s Senior Inquiry for his geography major.

 

Grace Molloy, Annie Gill and Dani Bornstein

Students research endangered species in the African bush

Three students researched the painted dog species this summer in Zimbabwe. Offered through Augustana's CORE office, the internship aligned perfectly with what the students want to pursue in the future — wildlife conservation and rehabilitation, and wildlife medicine.  

Class Notes

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Old Main in spring

Sticker price isn’t the final price

Augustana is more affordable than families may think. A bold new financial aid program plus other grants and scholarships keep costs lower—often in comparison with large state schools.

Quad-Cities residents asked to complete bike safety survey

Augustana College students, in conjunction with faculty from Augustana and St. Ambrose University, will use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map the region's growing bike infrastructure network and to identify locations where safety for cyclists can be improved.

 

Career outcomes

double majors

Class of 2022 outcomes, of those who responded to the survey. Source: Institutional Research at Augustana; CORE (Careers, Opportunities, Research, Exploration) at Augustana



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