Augustana University is sending a record number of its students abroad for January Interim (J-Term) 2023 — a 4-week session between semesters designed to be a time of curricular exploration and enrichment for students. This January, 258 Augustana students and 27 faculty members are traveling to 20 countries.
In October 2021, Augustana University announced that it will be home to the Viking Men’s Hockey program — set to take the ice in the fall of 2023. Bill and Carolyn Hinks are generously supporting Midco Arena as founding partners.
It all started in a residence hall — as many college friendships do. But, for three Sioux Falls couples, the friendship has become lifelong, with Augustana University still at its center.
Augustana University is excited to announce the launch of its Esports program — the home of organized competitive gaming on campus.
As 2022 comes to a close, we look back at the top 10 stories from Augustana University over the last year.
Augustana University alumnus Grayden Melick ‘18 formally received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nursing Faculty during the Augustana Nurses’ Pinning Ceremony on Dec. 16, in the Chapel of Reconciliation.
Augustana students Abemelech Mesfin Belachew ‘24, Manusmriti Budhathoki ‘24, Deepak Krishnaa Govindarajan ‘25 and Prana Mohanty ‘25 were named the grand prize winners of the 2022 Call for Code Global Challenge at an award ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 6, in New York, New York.
Augustana is proud to announce that Team GardenMate, made up of four of the university’s students, has been named a top five finalist for IBM’s 2022 Call for Code Global Challenge.
Over the course of the last 18 months to two years, members of a Governance Task Force engaged their colleagues and other faculty to update and develop a new model at AU, fully operational beginning Fall 2022.
Augustana University student Tsegab Arega ‘23, of Sioux Falls, is a government & international affairs and sociology double major. As a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) John R. Lewis Undergraduate Public Health Scholar, Arega was an intern this past summer at the University of Michigan Future Public Health Leaders Program (Michigan FPHLP) in Ann Arbor.