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The Augsburg Choir 鈥� celebrating 75 years
by Betsey Norgard This academic year, the Augsburg Choir celebrates 75 years鈥攁 choral tradition of distinction and excellence. The Augsburg Choir was founded in 1933, when the Men鈥檚… more >
Augsburg NOW鈥攎ade (mostly) in Minnesota
The FSC chain of custody (CoC) tracks FSC certified material through the production process – from the forest to the consumer, including all successive stages of processing, transformation, manufacturing and… more >
Feeding the neighborhood youth
by Wendi Wheeler ’06 The Campus Kitchen program at Augsburg College not only feeds people鈥檚 bodies鈥攊t also feeds the minds of students. Last spring, the program moved… more >
Core to Compost: The journey of an apple
by Stephen Geffre A year ago, all food waste from Augsburg鈥檚 dining center was hauled away and dumped in a landfill with the trash of thousands of other Twin… more >
Green Planning
The Center for Science, Business, and Religion (CSBR) is Augsburg鈥檚 first new academic building in 60 years and will replace the 60-year-old, inefficient Science Hall. CSBR will… more >
Studying sustainability
by Wendi Wheeler ’06 If you want to study sustainability, you need to go where it鈥檚 done best. Students in the Sustainable Cities in North America summer course… more >
Environmental Connections: Green starts here
by Jeff Shelman The topic of conversation on this early December afternoon was pumpkin ice cream, a dessert that summed up many of the conflicts that go along with making… more >
How GREEN is Augsburg?
College initiatives 鈥� American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment鈥攃ompleted the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory for 2001-08 鈥� Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities will collaborate on studying urban sustainability… more >
Toward a more sustainable Augsburg
by Betsey Norgard Living sustainably is no longer merely an option. As a vast majority of the world鈥檚 people struggle for resources to sustain even simple lives, a small… more >
Street pastors bring care and hope to the streets
Glendine Soiseth graduated from Augsburg and Luther Seminary in 2004 with a dual degree鈥擬aster of Social Work and Master of Arts in Theology. She was ready for the challenge… more >
Jordan Berg: Football, Physics, and far more
By Kelly Anderson Diercks Division III athletics is all about balancing. It鈥檚 about finding time to focus on both academics and athletics while still having time for family, friends… more >
The Kidney Kabaret for Janet Paone
By Betsey Norgard Photo by Paul Nixdorf In a summer 2007 community theatre production of Fiddler on the Roof, Janet Paone 鈥�83 played Golde. Golde鈥檚 husband, Tevye, was played… more >
clever student + wise professor + experienced alum = AWESOME DISCOVERY
By Wendi Wheeler and Betsey Norgard A student鈥檚 passion for research Brian Krohn originally came to Augsburg to study film, but after only one semester without any science classes… more >
Grassroot Health Care – the Clinic Center
By Libby Henslin ’06, operations and admissions coordinator, Rochester聽location 鈥淪ocial awareness is an important part of our mission at the Center Clinic. We believe that awareness is the… more >
Travel that transforms
STUDENTS SAY… Comments from the 鈥淩eligion and Christian Faith鈥� travel seminar to El Salvador, January 2007 NATALIE SASSEVILLE 鈥�09 鈥淕oing on the trip to El Salvador was like getting… more >