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Student earns $5,000 Hasselmo Prize
An Augustana College junior with a lifelong love of nature and a double major in biology and environmental sciences, Carlisle Evans Peck, of Geneseo, is this year’s winner of Augustana’s Hasselmo Prize for Academic Pursuit.
Lee named first Cannon Professor of the Humanities
Augustana College announced Dr. Dan Lee, professor of ethics and director of the Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics, is the inaugural holder of the Marian Taft Cannon Endowed Chair in the Humanities. As the college’s first Cannon Professor of the Humanities, Dr. Lee has the unique opportunity to shape the way this endowment will impact Augustana College faculty, and influence the transformative educational experience they provide students.
Making it count in Texas
Alongside peers from top research schools in the country, Augustana students are making a name for themselves and their college a thousand miles from campus.
Synopsis of Neil Armstrong's address at Augustana in 1972
A commemorative booklet was published by Augustana College after its Seminar on Space Exploration Feb. 10-12, 1972. The following account of Neil Armstrong's address is one of several in the booklet.
Hammer adds another dinosaur to his collection
Paleontologist and professor of geology Dr. William Hammer has found a new type of dinosaur in a recent expedition to the Central Trans-Antarctic Mountains. The newly discovered species, a four or five-foot ornithischian or bird-hipped dinosaur, is on its way back to the United States in about 5,000 pounds of rock.
The family that cites together, writes together
If your father is a professor, you might share an interest in academic publishing.
Former Deere CEO and alumnus donates $8 million to name Science Building
Former Deere CEO and 1948 Augustana alumnus Robert Hanson and his wife, Patricia Hanson, have generously given $8 million, the largest single gift in the history of Augustana College, to name the Science Building and the building's lecture hall wing at Augustana.
Hansons donate $8 million to name Science Building
On a warm summer day 62 years after he graduated from Augustana College, Robert Hanson returned to campus with his wife, Patricia, to give the college $8 million.
Alumni find joy in building school in Tanzania
Don '50 and Joann Swanson '52 Tolmie funded the building of the residential school Tanzania. Faraja Primary School offers not only academic instruction but also vocational and physical therapy to children with physical challenges.
The Old Main story: designs, domes and dolomite
Old Main, the best-beloved and most well-known building on the Augustana College campus, and a cultural monument to the achievements of 19th-century Swedish immigrants, did not have any easy journey to its present form.
