Higher education
Gina Torry, an International peace- building expert, began leading the Nobel Peace Prize Forum on Oct. 1. Te annual forum is housed and coordinated by Augsburg College, Minneapolis, in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the School of Public Health. Augsburg President Paul C. Pribbenow said Torry’s leadership is helping shape
“how our world sees and deals with crimes related to conflict-related sexual violence and other methods and tactics of conflict being waged against the civilian population in warfare.” Te forum was founded as a partnership between the Nor- wegian Nobel Institute and ELCA colleges with Norwegian-American immigrant roots: Augsburg; Augus- tana, Sioux Falls, S.D.; Concordia,
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Moorhead, Minn.; Luther, Decorah, Iowa; and St. Olaf, Northfield, Minn.
There’s a new major in town at Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill.: American studies. Te interdis- ciplinary major draws from depart- ments, including government, his- tory, English, music and sociology. One of its designers, assistant history professor Matthew Pehl, said such interdisciplinary majors are “the direction that higher education is moving” toward, answering “tough questions” that our world deals with today.
At California Lutheran Univer- sity, Tousand Oaks, ethnic diver- sity is at an all-time high. Of more than 550 freshmen, nearly half (49 percent) are members of ethnic groups that are traditionally under- represented on college campuses, up from 42 percent last year. One-third are the first members of their fami- lies to attend college. Admissions director Michael Elgarico told the Ventura County Star (Sept. 3) that CLU encourages diversity by recruit- ing strong students at high schools where low percentages of youth go on to college.
Undergraduate research experi- ences were key for Erin Gemperline, a 2011 graduate of Carthage Col- lege, Kenosha, Wis., who received a $100,000 grant from the National Sci- ence Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Gemperline, who is pur- suing a doctorate at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, is carrying out bioanalytical chemistry research using mass spectrometry techniques to find antifungal and antibacterial compounds from leaf cutter ants. She is also investigating how legume crops make their own nitrogen nutrients.
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