The Center for Western Studies 23rd annual June Event, “Adventures of a Private Collector,” will feature a discussion by local art collector Larry Ness, chief executive officer and chairman of the board for First Dakota National Bank and president of First Dakota Financial Corporation.

With four NSIC championships on the year, including men's cross country, women's cross country, women's golf and women's tennis, Augustana is the top athletics program in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference for the second-consecutive season. The College earned the 2011-12 NSIC/US Bank All-Sports Award with 135.5 points.

Meet the Augustana Class of 2012 – 370 of the nation’s newest educators, scientists, writers, religion scholars, artists, philosophers, nurses, journalists, musicians and business professionals who on Saturday, celebrated their accomplishments at the College’s Commencement ceremony, held at the Sioux Falls Arena.

Seven Augustana College seniors have been awarded Departmental Honors in Modern Foreign Languages in recognition of superior achievement in French, German and Spanish.

Junior Kelsey Bortnem won’t win the NCAA DII Women's Golf Championship. Her name won’t be listed among the leaders, either. But in this tournament, you won't find a more inspiring champion. Read the NCAA story on Bortnem, a Volga, S.D., native, who is recovering from a life-threatening bone marrow disease.

As diagnoses of Autism continue to increase, two nationally known experts on autism spectrum disorders will be in Sioux Falls to speak at the "Lighting the Way: Autism Spectrum Disorders in Our Community" conference, set for June 6-8, at Augustana's Gilbert Science Center.

Junior Bailey Jackson and senior Neal Gregerson were honored and Augustana’s Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) was recognized at the ACS National Meeting held recently in San Diego, Calif.

Members of the Augustana faculty were honored for their excellence in teaching, committment to research and dedication to providing global perspectives at Commencement on Saturday, May 19, and at the close of the 2011-12 academic year.

Dr. Adrien Hannus, professor of anthropology and director of the Archeology Laboratory at Augustana, will participate in the second season of "Time Team America," a science-reality series from PBS that sends archaeologists on a race against time to excavate historic sites around the nation.

Works by 14 student authors and artists are featured in Venture 2012, Augustana's literary and artistic magazine. Copies of the magazine are $10 and are available at the Mikkelsen Library's circulation desk.