Beginning fall 2012
Higher education
Scholastic Connections, a program of Augsburg College, Minneapolis, pairs high-achieving students of color and language other than English with mentors—often other ethnic minorities who are graduates of the school. It’s an effort to help students graduate on time and successfully pursue careers or graduate school. Mai Choua Thao, a senior studying business administration and accounting, was paired with Jenny Yang, an Augsburg financial aid counselor who shares her heritage. “I don’t think another mentor would fully comprehend my life like Jenny does,” Thao said. “We talk about what I want in my life and my plans for graduate school.”
Gettysburg Seminary Explores an Emerging Frontier
Religion & Media
To develop the awareness, critical thinking, and depth of understanding for leading ministry in the emerging, challenging, and connected global context, Gettysburg Seminary introduces its new Religion and Media concentration, with partners Luther Seminary and Odyssey Networks.
Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill., now offers a harp program, made possible in part by donors Kim and Donna Brunner. Music majors and minors can choose a harp emphasis, with instruction from adjunct professor Erin Freund, an accomplished soloist and composer who evaluates instruments for the world-renowned Lyon & Healy harp factory.
Bethany Jochim, a 2011 graduate of Augustana Col- lege, Sioux Falls, S.D., was one of two recipients of the Leroy Apker Award, the top undergraduate honor given by the American Physical Society. The award provides $5,000 to Jochim and $5,000 to Augustana’s physics department. Jochim, now pursuing a doctorate in phys- ics at Kansas State University, Manhattan, was a student researcher at Augustana, studying various processes by which molecules break up in electric fields, either from laser pulses or passing ions. She also published five research articles in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals—an astounding accomplishment for an under- graduate, physics scholars say. From 2009 to 2011, she received Rossing Physics scholarships, provided by the ELCA Foundation through the Thomas D. Rossing Fund for Physics Education. And from 2009 to 2010, she won the Goldwater Scholarship, established by Congress in 1986 to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians and engineers.
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Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan., gained almost $1.2 million for its general scholarship fund from an art auction of 11 works by Birger Sandzén and a group- ing of Native American pottery. Bethany awards more than $6 million a year in scholarships. The artwork was auctioned due to limited display space. “Some of them hadn’t even been on display in years,” said Beth- any President Edward F. Leonard III. “This was a good opportunity to support Bethany’s educational mission and share some beautiful pieces.” One Sandzén paint- ing sold for $632,500, breaking the record for the sale of
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