Category: Teaching and Learning

submitted by lubegam@augsburg.edu

Take a spring semester course that includes 10 days of travel to your Spring break!
Course title: Palestinian Art of Resistance, 4-credits, fulfills Fine Arts requirement
Faculty Leader: Sarah Myers and Robert Tom
Travel Dates: March 13-23, 2020 (spring break)

Course Description:
Art of Resistance will immerse you in contemporary Palestinian culture and invite you to learn directly from a wide range of artists in the region. You will have the unique opportunity to experience art and performance first-hand in diverse Palestinian contexts, from a day-long excursion to cultural sites in Ramallah to a conference call with artists in Gaza. A major component of the course will be ongoing cultural exchange with students from Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. Augsburg students will also learn about the complex political, historical, social, and religious context for Palestinian art and theater through guided tours, performances, gallery talks, museum visits, readings, and discussions. Throughout these experiences, students will interrogate what it means to create art under occupation, explore various definitions of the “art of resistance,” and learn tools to make creative work that defies and reimagines the status quo.

APPLICATIONS DUE NOVEMBER 1

Scholarships are available!

Visit the program page for additional details, course information, and updates!

submitted by lubegam@augsburg.edu

Take the spring semester POL 368 Model UN course, and travel to NYC for the Model UN conference at the end of March!

POL 368 is a regular course throughout the spring semester, with regular weekly classes. During the first half of the semester, students will prepare for the Model UN in NYC which takes place just after spring break, from March 29 to April 2.
Each year, the Augsburg delegation represents a different country with delegates assigned to particular UN committees or organizations, each with their own set of issues. Delegates have to understand the challenges of representing that country with its particular history, culture, and current foreign policy priorities and diplomatic objectives. At the same time, each delegate represents that country on a particular committee and will be researching issues such as climate change, human rights, trade, poverty, human trafficking, or arms control.

APPLICATIONS DUE NOVEMBER 1

Program cost $1,300
includes: round trip airfare to NYC, hotel accommodation, Model UN registration and delegate fees. There is no additional tuition fee for full-time undergrad students.
Students are responsible for their own transportation in NYC, as well as all meals during the program.

Visit the Model UN program page for more information

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out two great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by greena@augsburg.edu

WHAT:
A foundational series around undoing the patterns of white supremacy, particularly as they exist in white bodies.

WHO:
Any white faculty or staff, interested in building anti-racist community and building culture among white bodies.
(You will also be joined by the cohort of faculty/staff who’ve committed to a yearlong cohort experience around this work)

WHEN:
Friday September 27th, 9-1pm (lunch included)
Friday October 11th, 9-1pm (lunch included)
Friday October 25th, 9-1pm (lunch included)
** These session will build on each other so we ask that you attend all three, if you wish to participate. We promise we’ll try to avoid Fridays in the future to accommodate who always teach on that day! **

WHERE:
Faith Mennonite Church
2720 E 22nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55406
(Just a block south of the Seward Co-op!)

QUESTIONS:
Reach out to Allyson Green to learn more!

Please follow this link for more details or to register!

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out two great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out two great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out two great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by forsthj@augsburg.edu

Sending Students to the Writing Center

The Writing Center tutors work with students at all stages and levels of writing, as we are not just a remediation clinic. As such, we can address a wide range of issues with students. So, before sending students to the Writing Center, it is important to clarify with them why you are suggesting they go. Students can come to us for help brainstorming possible essay topics clarifying thesis statement, or organizing their essay.

Sharing these kinds of details with students allows them to the opportunity to think critically about writing and thus encourages improvement for future writing projects. In addition, since we do not want to work at cross-purposes with your expectations regarding a particular assignment, please encourage your students to bring their assignment sheets with them to their sessions.

Finally, while we understand that requiring students to come to the Writing Center is meant to encourage the students to spend more time on their writing, we’ve noticed that it often has the opposite effect and makes it logistically difficult for the Center to work with all of the students who’ve been required to come. So, please do not make Writing Center visits mandatory. If you would like to check on whether one of your students as seen a tutor in the Writing Center, please email Jenn at forsthj@augsburg.edu. Information about student visits will not be made public due to privacy concerns.

Class Visits

Your students are more likely to visit the Writing Center after a member of our staff has made a brief presentation about our services in your class. Every year, we make such presentations in courses across campus. To schedule a class visit for your course, please email Jenn at forsthj@augsburg.edu

submitted by gocmen@augsburg.edu

Join us online for The Forum on Workplace Inclusion’s (The Forum) first diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) webinar at Augsburg University!

Webinar Title: MassMutual’s D&I Journey: A Holistic Approach to Change
When: September 19, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CST

Presenters: Mary-Frances Winters (The Winters Group, Inc.) Peggy Nagae (White Men as Full Diversity Partners) Natalia Arbulu (MassMutual)
Cost: Free

Click the “Register Here” link for webinar details and to register.

The Forum, a program of Augsburg University, offers a wide variety of DEI events, programs, and resources to businesses, professionals, students, and/or individuals looking to grow professional leadership and effectiveness skills.

Register Here

submitted by keenern@augsburg.edu

A new course has been added for this fall in the Environmental Studies Program and it’s all about food and its impact on the environment!! Register for ENV 100-A (Fall 2019).

The course satisfies the core curriculum requirement of Liberal Arts Foundation: Social & Behavioral Sciences and is 4 credits. We meet Tuesdays & Thursdays from 3:40-5:20pm.

General Description: Environmental Connections is an interdisciplinary introduction to current issues regarding the natural environment upon which we all depend, an environment under increasing strain. It also serves as the introductory course for Augsburg’s Environmental Studies Program and as a Social and Behavioral Sciences course in the Liberal Arts Foundation. Throughout the semester we will explore food systems and our collective challenge of balancing a sustainable society with sustainable ecologies. We all need food to survive, but current processes of cultivation, production, distribution, and waste disposal significantly, and detrimentally, impact the natural world. How serious are these challenges? How will we respond? What can be and is being done now to minimize the further damage from these human activities?

Contact Monica McDaniel at mcdaniem@augsburg.edu for more details or with questions.

submitted by forsthj@augsburg.edu

Here is some information to include in your syllabus about the Writing Center. We are updating the website to include information about our new tutors and the hours we will be open this Fall so be sure to keep an eye out for that information!

Syllabus Blurbs

The Writing Center offers tutoring, where skilled students will work with you one-on-one at whatever stage of writing you are in – the idea-development stage, the drafting stage, and the revision stage – and can show you how to choose an appropriate essay topic, how to develop a thesis statement and paragraphs, how to revise your essay, or assist with any other writing needs you may have. Tutors will be alert listeners and will ask questions, but will not judge or evaluate the work in progress. More information regarding all services can be found on the Writing Center website: http://inside.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/.

OR

The Writing Center provides personal, one-on-one tutoring in order to help you at all levels of the writing process. The Center offers a space for conversation by creating a welcoming community for graduate and undergraduate students to practice the art of writing. Their purpose is to enhance the writing instruction that happens in academic classrooms by pairing you with an experienced reader, who engages you in conversation about your writing assignments and ideas and familiarizes you with audience expectations and academic genre conventions. The Center focuses on the rhetorical aspects of the text and provides student-centered teaching on works in progress. All tutoring sessions are free of charge and are valuable resources for you as a writer. I highly recommend that you use them. You can find out more information about the Writing Center at http://inside.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/. They are looking forward to seeing you!

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

In June, a team from Augsburg attended the Council of Independent Colleges Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts Institute. This session will include a discussion of the insights and lessons gained from participation in the institute as well as specific action steps we can implement across campus. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of providing WISE feedback that articulates high expectations as well as the professor’s belief in the student’s ability to meet the expectations. Facilitated by Joanne Reeck, Joaquin Muñoz, and Tim Pippert.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing WISE Feedback to Students |
2 pm – 4 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing WISE Feedback to Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The goal of this session is to offer some teaching strategies and tools that will

*foster student ownership of their own learning;
*facilitate student learning, retention of information, and academic success; and,
*create a culture of engagement and participation in the classroom.

These strategies can be useful in teaching difficult concepts as well as in managing the varied abilities and interest levels that one might encounter in any given section of a course. Some can be incorporated into the syllabus and in long-term planning; some can be adapted and used on the fly and/or to redirect a class session. Facilitated by Lori Brandt Hale.

Wednesday, August 28 | High Engagement Pedagogy |
11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “High Engagement Pedagogy”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The workshop will focus on best practices for supporting first-year students who are transitioning to college as well as talk through campus resources for faculty and students. Facilitated by Katie Bishop and Kelsey Richardson Blackwell.

Wednesday, August 28 | Supporting Our Incoming Students |
1 pm – 2:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Supporting Our Incoming Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Faculty, it can be quite time-consuming to develop effective active learning activities for your classroom, especially if you are teaching a course for the first time. The goal of this session is to provide you with two or three concrete examples of effective active learning templates that can be quickly adapted to your course. By starting with just one type of active learning strategy that works best for your learning objectives, you can quickly develop variants that can be used in virtually every class period to engage your students and make teaching more fun! Facilitated by Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright.

Wednesday, August 28 | Introduction to Active Learning: Concrete Ideas for your Classroom | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Introduction to Active Learning”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Come learn how to employ some new features as well as time-tested tools in Moodle to amplify your virtual presence and create a welcoming online environment that communicates your learning goals and presents content and activities in an easy-to-navigate format.

We will cover:

*time-saving strategies for building and/or updating a course
*how to leverage auto-linking to streamline course navigation
*managing revision writing using the new integrated Google Course Kit
*ways to track student engagement
*Name Coach–a new tool to help you learn your students’ names
*various ways to enhance the appearance of your course

Bring your laptop and try some of these things out while the E-Learning team is there to assist.

Thursday, August 29 | Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips) |
9:30 am – 10:45 am, HC 250

RSVP for “Up Your Game with Moodle”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Whether you have never used the Moodle gradebook and want to learn the basics OR have been using the gradebook but would like us to do a “pre-semester check-up” this is the workshop for you. The E-Learning team will be on hand to offer some essential gradebook tips as well as individual help with making sure your gradebook correlates to your syllabus.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook |
11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Come learn how to employ some new features as well as time-tested tools in Moodle to amplify your virtual presence and create a welcoming online environment that communicates your learning goals and presents content and activities in an easy-to-navigate format.

We will cover:
*time-saving strategies for building and/or updating a course
*how to leverage auto-linking to streamline course navigation
*managing revision writing using the new integrated Google Course Kit
*ways to track student engagement
*Name Coach–a new tool to help you learn your students’ names
*various ways to enhance the appearance of your course

Bring your laptop and try some of these things out while the E-Learning team is there to assist.

Thursday, August 29 | Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips) | 9:30 am – 10:45 am, HC 250

RSVP for “Up Your Game with Moodle”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The workshop will focus on best practices for supporting first-year students who are transitioning to college as well as talk through campus resources for faculty and students. Facilitated by Katie Bishop and Kelsey Richardson Blackwell.

Wednesday, August 28 | Supporting Our Incoming Students | 1 pm – 2:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Supporting Our Incoming Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Faculty, it can be quite time-consuming to develop effective active learning activities for your classroom, especially if you are teaching a course for the first time. The goal of this session is to provide you with two or three concrete examples of effective active learning templates that can be quickly adapted to your course. By starting with just one type of active learning strategy that works best for your learning objectives, you can quickly develop variants that can be used in virtually every class period to engage your students and make teaching more fun! Facilitated by Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright.

Wednesday, August 28 | Introduction to Active Learning: Concrete Ideas for your Classroom | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Introduction to Active Learning”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The goal of this session is to offer some teaching strategies and tools that will
*foster student ownership of their own learning;
*facilitate student learning, retention of information, and academic success; and,
*create a culture of engagement and participation in the classroom.

These strategies can be useful in teaching difficult concepts as well as in managing the varied abilities and interest levels that one might encounter in any given section of a course. Some can be incorporated into the syllabus and in long-term planning; some can be adapted and used on the fly and/or to redirect a class session. Facilitated by Lori Brandt Hale.

Wednesday, August 28 | High Engagement Pedagogy | 11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “High Engagement Pedagogy”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Whether you have never used the Moodle gradebook and want to learn the basics OR have been using the gradebook but would like us to do a “pre-semester check-up” this is the workshop for you. The E-Learning team will be on hand to offer some essential gradebook tips as well as individual help with making sure your gradebook correlates to your syllabus.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook | 11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook”

submitted by keenern@augsburg.edu

A new course has been added for this fall in the Environmental Studies Program and it’s all about food and its impact on the environment!! Register for ENV 100-A (Fall 2019).

The course satisfies the core curriculum requirement of Liberal Arts Foundation: Social & Behavioral Sciences and is 4 credits. We meet Tuesdays & Thursdays from 3:40-5:20pm.

General Description: Environmental Connections is an interdisciplinary introduction to current issues regarding the natural environment upon which we all depend, an environment under increasing strain. It also serves as the introductory course for Augsburg’s Environmental Studies Program and as a Social and Behavioral Sciences course in the Liberal Arts Foundation. Throughout the semester we will explore food systems and our collective challenge of balancing a sustainable society with sustainable ecologies. We all need food to survive, but current processes of cultivation, production, distribution, and waste disposal significantly, and detrimentally, impact the natural world. How serious are these challenges? How will we respond? What can be and is being done now to minimize the further damage from these human activities?

Contact Monica McDaniel at mcdaniem@augsburg.edu for more details or with questions.

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

In June, a team from Augsburg attended the Council of Independent Colleges Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts Institute. This session will include a discussion of the insights and lessons gained from participation in the institute as well as specific action steps we can implement across campus. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of providing WISE feedback that articulates high expectations as well as the professor’s belief in the student’s ability to meet the expectations. Facilitated by Joanne Reeck, Joaquin Muñoz, and Tim Pippert.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing WISE Feedback to Students | 2 pm – 4 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing WISE Feedback to Students”

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The goal of this session is to offer some teaching strategies and tools that will
*foster student ownership of their own learning;
*facilitate student learning, retention of information, and academic success; and,
*create a culture of engagement and participation in the classroom.

These strategies can be useful in teaching difficult concepts as well as in managing the varied abilities and interest levels that one might encounter in any given section of a course. Some can be incorporated into the syllabus and in long-term planning; some can be adapted and used on the fly and/or to redirect a class session. Facilitated by Lori Brandt Hale.

Wednesday, August 28 | High Engagement Pedagogy | 11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “High Engagement Pedagogy”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The workshop will focus on best practices for supporting first-year students who are transitioning to college as well as talk through campus resources for faculty and students. Facilitated by Katie Bishop and Kelsey Richardson Blackwell.

Wednesday, August 28 | Supporting Our Incoming Students | 1 pm – 2:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Supporting Our Incoming Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Faculty, it can be quite time-consuming to develop effective active learning activities for your classroom, especially if you are teaching a course for the first time. The goal of this session is to provide you with two or three concrete examples of effective active learning templates that can be quickly adapted to your course. By starting with just one type of active learning strategy that works best for your learning objectives, you can quickly develop variants that can be used in virtually every class period to engage your students and make teaching more fun! Facilitated by Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright.

Wednesday, August 28 | Introduction to Active Learning: Concrete Ideas for your Classroom | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Introduction to Active Learning”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Come learn how to employ some new features as well as time-tested tools in Moodle to amplify your virtual presence and create a welcoming online environment that communicates your learning goals and presents content and activities in an easy-to-navigate format.

We will cover:
*time-saving strategies for building and/or updating a course
*how to leverage auto-linking to streamline course navigation
*managing revision writing using the new integrated Google Course Kit
*ways to track student engagement
*Name Coach–a new tool to help you learn your students’ names
*various ways to enhance the appearance of your course

Bring your laptop and try some of these things out while the E-Learning team is there to assist.

Thursday, August 29 | Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips) | 9:30 am – 10:45 am, HC 250

RSVP for “Up Your Game with Moodle”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Whether you have never used the Moodle gradebook and want to learn the basics OR have been using the gradebook but would like us to do a “pre-semester check-up” this is the workshop for you. The E-Learning team will be on hand to offer some essential gradebook tips as well as individual help with making sure your gradebook correlates to your syllabus.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing WISE Feedback to Students | 2 pm – 4 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook”

submitted by chambek2@augsburg.edu

Language is so much more than vocabulary and grammar. For Sarah Degner Riveros, Lecturer in Spanish, languages are inseparable from their history, community, and culture. In this discussion, we explore many ways the teaching and learning of Spanish opens doorways to a wider world and into the deeper self.

The Augsburg Podcast features voices of Augsburg University faculty and staff. We hope this is one way you can get to know the people who educate our students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders. Subscribe on Itunes.

Listen to Sarah Degner Riveros: Language for Life

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The goal of this session is to offer some teaching strategies and tools that will foster student ownership of their own learning; facilitate student learning, retention of information, and academic success; and create a culture of engagement and participation in the classroom.

These strategies can be useful in teaching difficult concepts as well as in managing the varied abilities and interest levels that one might encounter in any given section of a course. Some can be incorporated into the syllabus and in long-term planning; some can be adapted and used on the fly and/or to redirect a class session.

Wednesday, August 28 | High Engagement Pedagogy |
11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “High Engagement Pedagogy”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The workshop will focus on best practices for supporting first-year students who are transitioning to college as well as talk through campus resources for faculty and students.

Wednesday, August 28 | Supporting Our Incoming Students |
1 pm – 2:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Supporting Our Incoming Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Come learn how to employ some new features as well as time-tested tools in Moodle to amplify your virtual presence and create a welcoming online environment that communicates your learning goals and presents content and activities in an easy-to-navigate format.

We will cover:
*time-saving strategies for building and/or updating a course
*how to leverage auto-linking to streamline course navigation
*managing revision writing using the new integrated Google Course Kit
*ways to track student engagement
*Name Coach–a new tool to help you learn your students’ names
*various ways to enhance the appearance of your course

Bring your laptop and try some of these things out while the E-Learning team is there to assist.

Thursday, August 29 | Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips) |
9:30 am – 10:45 am, HC 250

RSVP for “Up Your Game with Moodle”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Whether you have never used the Moodle gradebook and want to learn the basics OR have been using the gradebook but would like us to do a “pre-semester check-up” this is the workshop for you. The E-Learning team will be on hand to offer some essential gradebook tips as well as individual help with making sure your gradebook correlates to your syllabus.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook |
11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

In June, a team from Augsburg attended the Council of Independent Colleges Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts Institute. This session will include a discussion of the insights and lessons gained from participation in the institute as well as specific action steps we can implement across campus. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of providing WISE feedback that articulates high expectations as well as the professor’s belief in the student’s ability to meet the expectations.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing WISE Feedback to Students |
2 pm – 4 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing WISE Feedback to Students”

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by lindn@augsburg.edu

MOODLE 2019-2020 MAINTENANCE
On Aug. 21 from 11am-3pm Moodle will be undergoing routine maintenance and may be unavailable for periods during this time.

submitted by lindn@augsburg.edu

MOODLE 2019-2020 MAINTENANCE
On Aug. 21 from 11am-3pm Moodle will be undergoing routine maintenance and may be unavailable for periods during this time.

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out two great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

On Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday August 29, CTL is organizing a number of workshops to help you get ready for the new year!

Workshop Titles Include:
*High Engagement Pedagogy
*Supporting Our Incoming Students
*Introduction to Active Learning: Concrete Ideas for your Classroom
*Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips)
*Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook
*Providing WISE Feedback to Students

Check out the CTL page for details and to RSVP for the sessions you would like to attend.

CTL

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out two great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Come learn how to employ some new features as well as time-tested tools in Moodle to amplify your virtual presence and create a welcoming online environment that communicates your learning goals and presents content and activities in an easy-to-navigate format.

We will cover:
*time-saving strategies for building and/or updating a course
*how to leverage auto-linking to streamline course navigation
*managing revision writing using the new integrated Google Course Kit
*ways to track student engagement
*Name Coach–a new tool to help you learn your students’ names
*various ways to enhance the appearance of your course

Bring your laptop and try some of these things out while the E-Learning team is there to assist.

Thursday, August 29 | Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips) | 9:30 am – 10:45 am, Hagfors Center 250

RSVP for “Up Your Game with Moodle”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Whether you have never used the Moodle gradebook and want to learn the basics or have been using the gradebook but would like us to do a “pre-semester check-up” this is the workshop for you. The E-Learning team will be on hand to offer some essential gradebook tips as well as individual help with making sure your gradebook correlates to your syllabus.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook | 11 am – 12:15 pm, Hagfors Center 250

RSVP for “Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The workshop will focus on best practices for supporting first-year students who are transitioning to college as well as talk through campus resources for faculty and students.

Wednesday, August 28 | Supporting Our Incoming Students | 1 pm – 2:15 pm, Hagfors Center 250

RSVP for “Supporting Our Incoming Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

The goal of this session is to offer some teaching strategies and tools that will

• foster student ownership of their own learning
• facilitate student learning, retention of information, and academic success
• create a culture of engagement and participation in the classroom

These strategies can be useful in teaching difficult concepts as well as in managing the varied abilities and interest levels that one might encounter in any given section of a course. Some can be incorporated into the syllabus and in long-term planning; some can be adapted and used on the fly and/or to redirect a class session.

Wednesday, August 28 | High Engagement Pedagogy | 11 am – 12:15 pm, Hagfors Center 250

RSVP for “High Engagement Pedagogy”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Faculty, it can be quite time-consuming to develop effective active learning activities for your classroom, especially if you are teaching a course for the first time. The goal of this session is to provide you with two or three concrete examples of effective active learning templates that can be quickly adapted to your course. By starting with just one type of active learning strategy that works best for your learning objectives, you can quickly develop variants that can be used in virtually every class period to engage your students and make teaching more fun!

Wednesday, August 28 | Introduction to Active Learning: Concrete Ideas for your Classroom | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm, Hagfors Center 250

RSVP for “Introduction to Active Learning”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

In June, a team from Augsburg attended the Council of Independent Colleges Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts Institute. This session will include a discussion of the insights and lessons gained from participation in the institute as well as specific action steps we can implement across campus. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of providing WISE feedback that articulates high expectations as well as the professor’s belief in the student’s ability to meet the expectations.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing WISE Feedback to Students | 2 pm – 4 pm, Hagfors Center 250

RSVP for “Providing WISE Feedback to Students”

submitted by myers@augsburg.edu

Do you know Augsburg has a Youth Studies minor? This is a great minor to add to any major if you are considering working with children or youth.

Here are three ways you can learn more:
1. Check out the website – https://www.augsburg.edu/youth-studies/
2. Contact Professor Jeremy Myers at myers@augsburg.edu for a chat
3. Consider enrolling in this course this fall semester.

YST320 Working with Children and Youth (T/Th 9:40 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.)
This course will provide students with practical perspectives and experiences in work with children and youth. We will cover both theoretical frameworks for emancipatory work with youth and focused examinations of different types of youth work. Throughout the course, we will consider how our own positionality and experiences affect our engagements in work with youth and children. In order to fully apply theoretical content to practical experience, this course has a significant service learning requirement.

INSTRUCTOR: Jen Larrick (M.Ed Youth Development Leadership, University of Minnesota)
Jen works as a soccer coach in various youth and high school settings, and as Augsburg’s Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach. Jen is also a co-founder of a girl’s youth soccer non-profit called, Like a Girl. Jen thinks of youth as integral and capable co-creators of community. She thinks of youth work as a relational, playful, and improvisational practice of co-creating with young people, their own critical thinking, agency, and vocation.

Youth Studies Minor

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Faculty, it can be quite time-consuming to develop effective active learning activities for your classroom, especially if you are teaching a course for the first time. The goal of this session is to provide you with two or three concrete examples of effective active learning templates that can be quickly adapted to your course. By starting with just one type of active learning strategy that works best for your learning objectives, you can quickly develop variants that can be used in virtually every class period to engage your students and make teaching more fun!

Wednesday, August 28 | Introduction to Active Learning: Concrete Ideas for your Classroom | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Introduction to Active Learning”

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out TWO great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by schmalen@augsburg.edu

NEW Augsburg course offering, Fall semester 2019: World Drumming and Culture, a 2-credit course will meet M/W from 9:20-10:30. Engage with performance traditions from various non-Western cultures, particularly those from sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora. Learn through hands-on experience playing drums, bells, and rattles, by singing songs, and through improvisation and listening drills. Study the cultural context associated with each musical style through reading assignments, examination of online videos, and class discussion. Enroll for course 392-B Topics – no prior musical experience necessary.

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

In June, a team from Augsburg attended the Council of Independent Colleges Diversity, Civility, and the Liberal Arts Institute. This session will include a discussion of the insights and lessons gained from participation in the institute as well as specific action steps we can implement across campus. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of providing WISE feedback that articulates high expectations as well as the professor’s belief in the student’s ability to meet the expectations.

Thursday, August 29 | Providing WISE Feedback to Students |
2 pm – 4 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Providing WISE Feedback to Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

Wednesday, August 28 | High Engagement Pedagogy |
11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

The goal of this session is to offer some teaching strategies and tools that will foster student ownership of their own learning; facilitate student learning, retention of information, and academic success; and, create a culture of engagement and participation in the classroom.

These strategies can be useful in teaching difficult concepts as well as in managing the varied abilities and interest levels that one might encounter in any given section of a course. Some can be incorporated into the syllabus and in long-term planning; some can be adapted and used on the fly and/or to redirect a class session.

RSVP for “High Engagement Pedagogy”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

As part of a series of August workshops, Katie Bishop and Kelsey Richardson Blackwell will be conducting a session on best practices for supporting first-year students who are transitioning to college, as well as talking through campus resources for faculty and students.

Wednesday, August 28 | Supporting Our Incoming Students |
1 pm – 2:15 pm, HC 250

RSVP for “Supporting Our Incoming Students”

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

On August 29, the E-learning team will be providing two Moodle workshops.

Up Your Game with Moodle (Valuable Tips) | 9:30 am – 10:45 am, HC 250

Come learn how to employ some new features as well as time-tested tools in Moodle to amplify your virtual presence and create a welcoming online environment that communicates your learning goals and presents content and activities in an easy-to-navigate format.

We will cover:
*time-saving strategies for building and/or updating a course
*how to leverage auto-linking to streamline course navigation
*managing revision writing using the new integrated Google Course Kit
*ways to track student engagement
*Name Coach–a new tool to help you learn your students’ names
*various ways to enhance the appearance of your course

Bring your laptop and try some of these things out while the E-Learning team is there to assist.
____________________________________________

Thursday, August 29 | Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook |
11 am – 12:15 pm, HC 250

Whether you have never used the Moodle gradebook and want to learn the basics OR have been using the gradebook but would like us to do a “pre-semester check-up” this is the workshop for you. The E-Learning team will be on hand to offer some essential gradebook tips as well as individual help with making sure your gradebook correlates to your syllabus.

Workshop Descriptions and RSVP Forms

submitted by maherk@augsburg.edu

On Wednesday, August 28 and Thursday, August 29, CTL is hosting a number of workshops in Hagfors 250. On Wednesday, come ready to learn about “High Engagement Pedagogy” and “Supporting Our Incoming Students”, as well concrete ideas for introducing “Active Learning” into your classroom. Thursday, the E-learning team will help you learn more about Moodle, including valuable tips and “Providing Feedback with the Moodle Gradebook”. Look to the CTL page linked below for schedules and descriptions.

CTL Workshops

submitted by kaivola@augsburg.edu

On August 12, 2019, Stacy Freiheit, professor of psychology, assumed the role of director of general education. Stacy is now the primary contact person for all matters related to the current general education program at Augsburg.

Jacqui deVries, former director of general education and chair of the General Education Design Team (GEDT), has graciously offered to support Stacy as she transitions to the new role. Jacqui will also continue to oversee final clarifications and refinements to the general education redesign proposal through September 18, when the proposal will be advanced to Faculty Senate, in anticipation of a “first reading” in October and faculty vote in November. After September 18, Stacy will assume primary responsibility for stewardship of the proposal, working closely with Jacqui and the GEDT, as it comes before the faculty as a body.

Please join me, again, in thanking Jacqui for her 7 years of remarkable service in leading Augsburg’s general education program and the redesign effort and in welcoming Stacy to her new role!

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out TWO great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by myers@augsburg.edu

Do you know Augsburg has a Youth Studies minor? This is a great minor to add to any major if you are considering working with children or youth. Here are three ways you can learn more:

1. Check out the minor at our website – https://www.augsburg.edu/youth-studies/
2. If you want to talk more about the YST minor, please contact Professor Jeremy Myers at myers@augsburg.edu
3. Consider enrolling in this course this fall semester.

YST320 Working with Children and Youth (T/Th 9:40 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.)
This course will provide students with practical perspectives and experiences in work with children and youth. We will cover both theoretical frameworks for emancipatory work with youth and focused examinations of different types of youth work. Throughout the course, we will consider how our own positionality and experiences affect our engagements in work with youth and children. In order to fully apply theoretical content to practical experience, this course has a significant service learning requirement.

Instructor: Jen Larrick (M.Ed Youth Development Leadership, University of Minnesota)
Jen works as a soccer coach in various youth and high school settings, and as Augsburg’s Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach. Jen is also a co-founder of a girl’s youth soccer non-profit called, Like a Girl. Jen thinks of youth as integral and capable co-creators of community. She thinks of youth work as a relational, playful, and improvisational practice of co-creating with young people, their own critical thinking, agency, and vocation.

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out TWO great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out TWO great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by bouzardg@augsburg.edu

Looking to incorporate experiential learning into your syllabus for this fall? Check out TWO great resources compiled by the Sabo Center that can help you shape a course or assignment related to experiential education.

The first is the Experiential Education website. This website offers an overview of experiential learning at Augsburg, the core elements of effective experiential education, and offers examples of different kinds of experiential learning strategies: inside.augsburg.edu/experientialed

The second is a comprehensive library guide, covering topics from theory to resources for course design, ideas for reflection activities, and more!
https://library.augsburg.edu/experientialed

submitted by krajewsk@augsburg.edu

Tuesday August 6, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Hagfors 250

What do future auggies expect from Augsburg when it comes to technology?

What do future auggies expect from their courses, faculty and campus?

The Augsburg IT Department is sponsoring a future student panel to explore what technology future auggies expect. Come see a panel, where three incoming first year students will talk about what they expect from Augsburg’s technology environment.

Teenagers have grown up in a world where technology is everywhere and how they learn is infused with technology. Many K-12 systems have laptop programs, smartboards, and use tools like moodle. This sets an expectation and shapes how they learn — we need to understand this digital reality so we can help students succeed in the college environment. Come and hear from this panel and engage with them on questions you have about their digital reality.

submitted by krajewsk@augsburg.edu

Tuesday August 6, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Hagfors 250

What do future auggies expect from Augsburg when it comes to technology?

What do future auggies expect from their courses, faculty and campus?

The Augsburg IT Department is sponsoring a future student panel to explore what technology future auggies expect. Come see a panel, where three incoming first year students will talk about what they expect from Augsburg’s technology environment.

Teenagers have grown up in a world where technology is everywhere and how they learn is infused with technology. Many K-12 systems have laptop programs, smartboards, and use tools like moodle. This sets an expectation and shapes how they learn — we need to understand this digital reality so we can help students succeed in the college environment. Come and hear from this panel and engage with them on questions you have about their digital reality.

submitted by krajewsk@augsburg.edu

Tuesday August 6, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Hagfors 250

What do future auggies expect from Augsburg when it comes to technology?

What do future auggies expect from their courses, faculty and campus?

The Augsburg IT Department is sponsoring a future student panel to explore what technology future auggies expect. Come see a panel, where three incoming first year students will talk about what they expect from Augsburg’s technology environment.

Teenagers have grown up in a world where technology is everywhere and how they learn is infused with technology. Many K-12 systems have laptop programs, smartboards, and use tools like moodle. This sets an expectation and shapes how they learn — we need to understand this digital reality so we can help students succeed in the college environment. Come and hear from this panel and engage with them on questions you have about their digital reality.

submitted by krajewsk@augsburg.edu

Tuesday August 6, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Hagfors 250

What do future auggies expect from Augsburg when it comes to technology?

What do future auggies expect from their courses, faculty and campus?

The Augsburg IT Department is sponsoring a future student panel to explore what technology future auggies expect. Come see a panel, where three incoming first year students will talk about what they expect from Augsburg’s technology environment.

Teenagers have grown up in a world where technology is everywhere and how they learn is infused with technology. Many K-12 systems have laptop programs, smartboards, and use tools like moodle. This sets an expectation and shapes how they learn — we need to understand this digital reality so we can help students succeed in the college environment. Come and hear from this panel and engage with them on questions you have about their digital reality.

submitted by krajewsk@augsburg.edu

Tuesday August 6, 2PM – 3PM
Hagfors 250

What do future auggies expect from Augsburg when it comes to technology?

What do future auggies expect from their courses, faculty and campus?

The Augsburg IT Department is sponsoring a future student panel to explore what technology future auggies expect. Come see a panel, where three incoming first year students will talk about what they expect from Augsburg’s technology environment.

Teenagers have grown up in a world where technology is everywhere and how they learn is infused with technology. Many K-12 systems have laptop programs, smartboards, and use tools like moodle. This sets an expectation and shapes how they learn — we need to understand this digital reality so we can help students succeed in the college environment. Come and hear from this panel and engage with them on questions you have about their digital reality.

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Morgan Lange: Correlation between Chronic Lower Back Pain and Hamstring flexibility in faculty, staff, and students in an Urban Midwestern University
Katherine Dockter: Physical Education and Adulthood Levels of Physical Activity
Christopher Calland: Relationship Between Knee Biomechanics and Knee Injuries in D3 Football Players

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Brent Chambers: Analysis of alcohol content and hops in beer
Isaac Tadé: Let your light shine: Radical polymerizations of dental polymers
Ben Darwitz: Clearing the Air: How the Innate Immune System may be Able to Treat Staphylococcus qureus Lung Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Ciashia Shiongyaj: Function of Daphnia magna’s First Antennae
Abigail Garofalo: Visualizing hedgehog gene expression in Daphnia magna using in situ hybridization
May Kamsheh: Manganese Toxicity on Cultured SH-SY5Y Cells

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Xueqing Su: A Numerical Power-Series Approach to Boundary-Value Eigenvalue Problems in the Context of Fluid Flows
Annabelle Arns: Real Life CSI: The Searle Pedestrian Throw Formula
Eric Bibelnieks: Energy Computation and its Minimization for Suction Vortices Modeled on a Cubic Lattice

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Samantha Marholtz: qPCR studies of hedgehog gene expression during Daphnia magna development with SYBR green
Yusra Darkazanli: Real-time PCR analysis of a Mn transporter gene in Human Neuroblastoma Cells
Bridget Wagner: Analyzing the structure and function of a Myth4/FERM Myosin in Tetrahymena thermophile
Jaweriyo Farah: Identifying the Localization and Function of Myosin 13 in Tetrahymena thermophila

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Jose-Raul Marcos-Cruz: Local field potential carry task-related information in a cognitive control task
Lorenzo Hernandez: Predicting Maximal Oxygen Consumption with a Single Stage Skate Test
Daniela Fragale: What’s the Fuss about Fuzz? Characterizing Trichome Density in MN-Native Strawberry Populations
Maxwell Banister: Putting sap suckers to the test: Identifying sustainable aphid resistance in the wild relatives of barley

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

9:00 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – Kennedy 303A
Carrington Nowak: Sibling Rivals
Bridgette Boone: Creativity Through Abstraction: The Journey to Becoming an Artist
John Kipper: Race and Children’s Lit

10:15 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts ¬¬– Kennedy 303A
Pachi Hang & Domenica Llerena: Engaging Diversity through Intergroup Dialogue
Allison Stein: The Healing Power of Horses: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Military Veterans
Linh Dao: Visualizing Community: Mapping public spaces in the era of Google Maps

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Weston Schug: Kinetics of Peroxy Radicals Using a Flow-tube
Laura Kundel: A Swell Time with Polymers: Sustainable Organogels
Jade Fullerton: Pepto Bismol: Meant for Indigestion or Polymers?

1:00 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Kylee Lokken: Autobiography Memory Specificity and its Relation to Interpersonal Problem Solving in Young Adults and Children
Anne Liners: “I Just Need Help with Grammar”: Patterning Error at a University Writing Center
Hannah Dyson: The Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Movements in Minnesota

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Noah Aleshire: 3D Printing Food: An Exploration
Kei Heltemes: Voltage-Induced Ferromagnetism in Diamagnetic Fool’s Gold Using Electrolyte Gating
Megan McGlynn: Mechanical Properties of 2D Lipid Films
Arooba Shahid: Shape Analysis of Lipid Monolayer Domains

2:15 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Molly Tengwall: Oklahoma!: The Impact of Changing Culture on a Broadway Classic

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Morgan Lange: Correlation between Chronic Lower Back Pain and Hamstring flexibility in faculty, staff, and students in an Urban Midwestern University
Katherine Dockter: Physical Education and Adulthood Levels of Physical Activity
Christopher Calland: Relationship Between Knee Biomechanics and Knee Injuries in D3 Football Players

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Brent Chambers: Analysis of alcohol content and hops in beer
Isaac Tadé: Let your light shine: Radical polymerizations of dental polymers

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Ciashia Shiongyaj: Function of Daphnia magna’s First Antennae
Abigail Garofalo: Visualizing hedgehog gene expression in Daphnia magna using in situ hybridization
May Kamsheh: Manganese Toxicity on Cultured SH-SY5Y Cells

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Xueqing Su: A Numerical Power-Series Approach to Boundary-Value Eigenvalue Problems in the Context of Fluid Flows
Annabelle Arns: Real Life CSI: The Searle Pedestrian Throw Formula
Eric Bibelnieks: Energy Computation and its Minimization for Suction Vortices Modeled on a Cubic Lattice

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Samantha Marholtz: qPCR studies of hedgehog gene expression during Daphnia magna development with SYBR green
Yusra Darkazanli: Real-time PCR analysis of a Mn transporter gene in Human Neuroblastoma Cells
Bridget Wagner: Analyzing the structure and function of a Myth4/FERM Myosin in Tetrahymena thermophile
Jaweriyo Farah: Identifying the Localization and Function of Myosin 13 in Tetrahymena thermophila

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Jose-Raul Marcos-Cruz: Local field potential carry task-related information in a cognitive control task
Lorenzo Hernandez: Predicting Maximal Oxygen Consumption with a Single Stage Skate Test
Daniela Fragale: What’s the Fuss about Fuzz? Characterizing Trichome Density in MN-Native Strawberry Populations
Maxwell Banister: Putting sap suckers to the test: Identifying sustainable aphid resistance in the wild relatives of barley

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

9:00 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – Kennedy 303A
Carrington Nowak: Sibling Rivals
Bridgette Boone: Creativity Through Abstraction: The Journey to Becoming an Artist
John Kipper: Race and Children’s Lit

10:15 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts ¬¬– Kennedy 303A
Pachi Hang & Domenica Llerena: Engaging Diversity through Intergroup Dialogue
Allison Stein: The Healing Power of Horses: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Military Veterans
Linh Dao: Visualizing Community: Mapping public spaces in the era of Google Maps

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Weston Schug: Kinetics of Peroxy Radicals Using a Flow-tube
Laura Kundel: A Swell Time with Polymers: Sustainable Organogels
Jade Fullerton: Pepto Bismol: Meant for Indigestion or Polymers?

1:00 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Kylee Lokken: Autobiography Memory Specificity and its Relation to Interpersonal Problem Solving in Young Adults and Children
Anne Liners: “I Just Need Help with Grammar”: Patterning Error at a University Writing Center
Hannah Dyson: The Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Movements in Minnesota

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Noah Aleshire: 3D Printing Food: An Exploration
Kei Heltemes: Voltage-Induced Ferromagnetism in Diamagnetic Fool’s Gold Using Electrolyte Gating
Megan McGlynn: Mechanical Properties of 2D Lipid Films
Arooba Shahid: Shape Analysis of Lipid Monolayer Domains

2:15 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Molly Tengwall: Oklahoma!: The Impact of Changing Culture on a Broadway Classic

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Morgan Lange: Correlation between Chronic Lower Back Pain and Hamstring flexibility in faculty, staff, and students in an Urban Midwestern University
Katherine Dockter: Physical Education and Adulthood Levels of Physical Activity
Christopher Calland: Relationship Between Knee Biomechanics and Knee Injuries in D3 Football Players

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Brent Chambers: Analysis of alcohol content and hops in beer
Isaac Tadé: Let your light shine: Radical polymerizations of dental polymers

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Ciashia Shiongyaj: Function of Daphnia magna’s First Antennae
Abigail Garofalo: Visualizing hedgehog gene expression in Daphnia magna using in situ hybridization
May Kamsheh: Manganese Toxicity on Cultured SH-SY5Y Cells

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Xueqing Su: A Numerical Power-Series Approach to Boundary-Value Eigenvalue Problems in the Context of Fluid Flows
Annabelle Arns: Real Life CSI: The Searle Pedestrian Throw Formula
Eric Bibelnieks: Energy Computation and its Minimization for Suction Vortices Modeled on a Cubic Lattice

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Samantha Marholtz: qPCR studies of hedgehog gene expression during Daphnia magna development with SYBR green
Yusra Darkazanli: Real-time PCR analysis of a Mn transporter gene in Human Neuroblastoma Cells
Bridget Wagner: Analyzing the structure and function of a Myth4/FERM Myosin in Tetrahymena thermophile
Jaweriyo Farah: Identifying the Localization and Function of Myosin 13 in Tetrahymena thermophila

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Jose-Raul Marcos-Cruz: Local field potential carry task-related information in a cognitive control task
Lorenzo Hernandez: Predicting Maximal Oxygen Consumption with a Single Stage Skate Test
Daniela Fragale: What’s the Fuss about Fuzz? Characterizing Trichome Density in MN-Native Strawberry Populations
Maxwell Banister: Putting sap suckers to the test: Identifying sustainable aphid resistance in the wild relatives of barley

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

9:00 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – Kennedy 303A
Carrington Nowak: Sibling Rivals
Bridgette Boone: Creativity Through Abstraction: The Journey to Becoming an Artist
John Kipper: Race and Children’s Lit

10:15 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – Kennedy 303A
Pachi Hang & Domenica Llerena: Engaging Diversity through Intergroup Dialogue
Allison Stein: The Healing Power of Horses: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Military Veterans
Linh Dao: Visualizing Community: Mapping public spaces in the era of Google Maps

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Weston Schug: Kinetics of Peroxy Radicals Using a Flow-tube
Laura Kundel: A Swell Time with Polymers: Sustainable Organogels
Jade Fullerton: Pepto Bismol: Meant for Indigestion or Polymers?

1:00 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Kylee Lokken: Autobiography Memory Specificity and its Relation to Interpersonal Problem Solving in Young Adults and Children
Anne Liners: “I Just Need Help with Grammar”: Patterning Error at a University Writing Center
Hannah Dyson: The Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Movements in Minnesota

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Noah Aleshire: 3D Printing Food: An Exploration
Kei Heltemes: Voltage-Induced Ferromagnetism in Diamagnetic Fool’s Gold Using Electrolyte Gating
Megan McGlynn: Mechanical Properties of 2D Lipid Films
Arooba Shahid: Shape Analysis of Lipid Monolayer Domains

2:15 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Molly Tengwall: Oklahoma!: The Impact of Changing Culture on a Broadway Classic

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Ciashia Shiongyaj: Function of Daphnia magna’s First Antennae
Abigail Garofalo: Visualizing hedgehog gene expression in Daphnia magna using in situ hybridization
May Kamsheh: Manganese Toxicity on Cultured SH-SY5Y Cells

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Xueqing Su: A Numerical Power-Series Approach to Boundary-Value Eigenvalue Problems in the Context of Fluid Flows
Annabelle Arns: Real Life CSI: The Searle Pedestrian Throw Formula
Eric Bibelnieks: Energy Computation and its Minimization for Suction Vortices Modeled on a Cubic Lattice

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Samantha Marholtz: qPCR studies of hedgehog gene expression during Daphnia magna development with SYBR green
Yusra Darkazanli: Real-time PCR analysis of a Mn transporter gene in Human Neuroblastoma Cells
Bridget Wagner: Analyzing the structure and function of a Myth4/FERM Myosin in Tetrahymena thermophile
Jaweriyo Farah: Identifying the Localization and Function of Myosin 13 in Tetrahymena thermophila

2:15 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Jose-Raul Marcos-Cruz: Local field potential carry task-related information in a cognitive control task
Lorenzo Hernandez: Predicting Maximal Oxygen Consumption with a Single Stage Skate Test
Daniela Fragale: What’s the Fuss about Fuzz? Characterizing Trichome Density in MN-Native Strawberry Populations
Maxwell Banister: Putting sap suckers to the test: Identifying sustainable aphid resistance in the wild relatives of barley

submitted by ryghs@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public!

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303A
Morgan Lange: Correlation between Chronic Lower Back Pain and Hamstring flexibility in faculty, staff, and students in an Urban Midwestern University
Katherine Dockter: Physical Education and Adulthood Levels of Physical Activity
Christopher Calland: Relationship Between Knee Biomechanics and Knee Injuries in D3 Football Players

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Ben Darwitz: Clearing the Air: How the Innate Immune System may be Able to Treat Staphylococcus qureus Lung Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Brent Chambers: Analysis of alcohol content and hops in beer
Isaac Tadé: Let your light shine: Radical polymerizations of dental polymers

submitted by shafer@augsburg.edu

Come hear summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public.

9:00 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – Kennedy 303A
Carrington Nowak: Sibling Rivals
Bridgette Boone: Creativity through abstraction: the journey to becoming an artist

10:15 am: Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts – Kennedy 303A
John Kipper: Race and Children’s Lit
Pachi Hang & Domenica Llerena: Engaging Diversity through Intergroup Dialogue
Allison Stein: The Healing Power of Horses: Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Military Veterans

10:30 am: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Weston Schug: Kinetics of Peroxy Radicals Using a Flow-tube
Laura Kundel: A Swell Time with Polymers: Sustainable Organogels
Jade Fullerton: Pepto Bismol: Meant for Indigestion or Polymers?

1:00 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Linh Dao: Visualizing Community: Mapping public spaces in the era of Google Maps
Kylee Lokken: Autobiography Memory Specificity and its Relation to Interpersonal Problem Solving in Young Adults and Children
Anne Liners : “I Just Need Help with Grammar”: Patterning Error at a University Writing Center

1:00 pm: STEM Fields – Kennedy 303B
Noah Aleshire: 3D Printing Food: An Exploration
Kei Heltemes: Voltage-Induced Ferromagnetism in Diamagnetic Fool’s Gold Using Electrolyte Gating
Megan McGlynn: Mechanical Properties of 2D Lipid Films
Arooba Shahid: Shape Analysis of Lipid Monolayer Domains

2:15 pm: Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Fields – Kennedy 303A
Hannah Dyson: The Suffrage and Anti-Suffrage Movements in Minnesota
Molly Tengwall: Oklahoma!:The Impact of Changing Culture on a Broadway Classic

submitted by shafer@augsburg.edu

Come hear STEM summer researchers present their final projects!

10:30 am – Kennedy 303A
Morgan Lange: Correlation between Chronic Lower Back Pain and Hamstring flexibility in faculty, staff, and students in an Urban Midwestern University
Katherine Dockter: Physical Education and Adulthood Levels of Physical Activity
Christopher Calland: Relationship Between Knee Biomechanics and Knee Injuries in D3 Football Players

10:30 am – Kennedy 303B
Ben Darwitz: Clearing the Air: How the Innate Immune System may be Able to Treat Staphylococcus qureus Lung Infections in Cystic Fibrosis Patients
Brent Chambers: Analysis of alcohol content and hops in beer
Isaac Tadé: Let your light shine: Radical polymerizations of dental polymers

submitted by shafer@augsburg.edu

Come hear STEM summer researchers present their final projects! Free and open to the public

1:00 pm – Kennedy 303A
Ciashia Shiongyaj: Functioning Structure and Model of Daphnia Magna’s First Antennae Basal Bead
Abigail Garofalo: Visualizing hedgehog gene expression in Daphnia magna using in situ hybridization
May Kamsheh: Manganese Toxicity on Cultured SH-SY5Y Cells

1:00 pm – Kennedy 303B
Xueqing Su: A Numerical Power-Series Approach to Boundary-Value Eigenvalue Problems in the Context of Fluid Flows
Annabelle Arns: Real Life CSI: The Searle Pedestrian Throw Formula
Eric Bibelnieks: Energy Computation and its Minimization for Suction Vortices Modeled on a Cubic Lattice

2:15 pm – Kennedy 303A
Samantha Marholtz: qPCR studies of hedgehog gene expression during Daphnia magna development with SYBR green
Yusra Darkazanli: Real-time PCR analysis of a Mn transporter gene in Human Neuroblastoma Cells
Bridget Wagner: Analyzing the structure and function of a Myth4/FERM Myosin in Tetrahymena thermophile
Jaweriyo Farah: Identifying the Localization and Function of Myosin 13 in Tetrahymena thermophila

2:15 pm – Kennedy 303B
Jose Raul Marcos-Cruz: Local field potential carry task-related information in a cognitive control task
Lorenzo Hernandez: Predicting Maximal Oxygen Consumption with a Single Stage Skate Test
Daniela Fragale: What’s the Fuss about Fuzz? Characterizing Trichome Density in MN-Native Strawberry Populations
Maxwell Banister: Putting sap suckers to the test: Identifying sustainable aphid resistance in the wild relatives of barley

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

All Augsburg students, faculty and staff are cordially invited to join us for the 30th Anniversary Paideia Institute Invitational on Friday, July 26 in Old Main 105. This is your opportunity to participate in or observe a Paideia seminar and discover what teachers are doing in their classrooms with students. The schedule for the day includes:

9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration and seminar preparation
9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome and Introduction to seminar
10:00 am – 11:00 am SEMINAR Reading: Anne Dunn, “Too Many Rules”
11:00 am – 11:30 am Debrief
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch on us, Christensen Center second floor
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Breakout seminars facilitated by returning teachers;
Paideia information session

Additional details and the RSVP are located on the digital form linked below.
A copy of the story and reading guide will be emailed to you in advance as confirmation.

Paideia Invitational RSVP Form

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

All Augsburg students, faculty and staff are cordially invited to join us for the 30th Anniversary Paideia Institute Invitational on Friday, July 26 in Old Main 105. This is your opportunity to participate in or observe a Paideia seminar and discover what teachers are doing in their classrooms with students. The schedule for the day includes:

9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration and seminar preparation
9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome and Introduction to seminar
10:00 am – 11:00 am SEMINAR Reading: Anne Dunn, “Too Many Rules”
11:00 am – 11:30 am Debrief
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch on us, Christensen Center second floor
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Breakout seminars facilitated by returning teachers;
Paideia information session

Additional details and the RSVP are located on the digital form linked below.
A copy of the story and reading guide will be emailed to you in advance as confirmation.

Paideia Invitational RSVP Form

submitted by groeneve@augsburg.edu

The Augsburg Writing Center is offering online instruction for students taking summer courses. The Online Writing Center allows you to video conference with a tutor and receive one-on-one feedback on your writing from a peer tutor. We use a combination of Zoom (for the video conference) and Google Docs (for you to share your draft with the tutor). As is true during an in-person session, you and the tutor will have a collaborative conversation about your draft during the online meeting.

Appointments are available Tuesdays 6:00-7:30pm and Wednesdays 4:00-5:30pm. For more information about this service and instructions for making an appointment, please see our Online Writing Center FAQ (linked below) or email Sarah Groeneveld Kenney (groeneve@augsburg.edu). For any other questions about the Writing Center, please email Jennifer Forsthoefel (forsthj@augsburg.edu).

Augsburg Online Writing Center FAQ and Sign-Up Sheet

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

All Augsburg students, faculty and staff are cordially invited to join us for the 30th Anniversary Paideia Institute Invitational on Friday, July 26 in Old Main 105. This is your opportunity to participate in or observe a Paideia seminar and discover what teachers are doing in their classrooms with students. The schedule for the day includes:

9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration and seminar preparation
9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome and Introduction to seminar
10:00 am – 11:00 am SEMINAR Reading: Anne Dunn, “Too Many Rules”
11:00 am – 11:30 am Debrief
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch on us, Christensen Center second floor
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Breakout seminars facilitated by returning teachers;
Paideia information session

Additional details and the RSVP are located on the digital form linked below.
A copy of the story and reading guide will be emailed to you in advance as confirmation.

Paideia Invitational RSVP Form

submitted by lloydr@augsburg.edu

All Augsburg students, faculty and staff are cordially invited to join us for the 30th Anniversary Paideia Institute Invitational on Friday, July 26 in Old Main 105. This is your opportunity to participate in or observe a Paideia seminar and discover what teachers are doing in their classrooms with students. The schedule for the day includes:

9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration and seminar preparation
9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome and Introduction to seminar
10:00 am – 11:00 am SEMINAR Reading: Anne Dunn, “Too Many Rules”
11:00 am – 11:30 am Debrief
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch on us, Christensen Center second floor
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Breakout seminars facilitated by returning teachers;
Paideia information session

Additional details and the RSVP are located on the digital form linked below.
A copy of the story and reading guide will be emailed to you in advance as confirmation.

Paideia Invitational RSVP Form

submitted by groeneve@augsburg.edu

The Augsburg Writing Center is offering online instruction for students taking summer courses. The Online Writing Center allows you to video conference with a tutor and receive one-on-one feedback on your writing from a peer tutor. We use a combination of Zoom (for the video conference) and Google Docs (for you to share your draft with the tutor). As is true during an in-person session, you and the tutor will have a collaborative conversation about your draft during the online meeting.

Appointments are available Tuesdays 6:00-7:30pm Wednesdays from 4:00-5:30pm. For more information about this service and instructions for making an appointment, please see our Online Writing Center FAQ (linked below) or email Sarah Groeneveld Kenney (groeneve@augsburg.edu). For any other questions about the Writing Center, please email Jennifer Forsthoefel (forsthj@augsburg.edu).

Augsburg Online Writing Center FAQ and Sign-Up Sheet

submitted by groeneve@augsburg.edu

The Augsburg Writing Center is offering online instruction for students taking summer courses. The Online Writing Center allows you to video conference with a tutor and receive one-on-one feedback on your writing from a peer tutor. We use a combination of Zoom (for the video conference) and Google Docs (for you to share your draft with the tutor). As is true during an in-person session, you and the tutor will have a collaborative conversation about your draft during the online meeting.

Appointments are available Tuesdays 6:00-7:30pm Wednesdays from 4:00-5:30pm. For more information about this service and instructions for making an appointment, please see our Online Writing Center FAQ (linked below) or email Sarah Groeneveld Kenney (groeneve@augsburg.edu). For any other questions about the Writing Center, please email Jennifer Forsthoefel (forsthj@augsburg.edu).

Augsburg Online Writing Center FAQ and Sign-Up Sheet

submitted by groeneve@augsburg.edu

The Augsburg Writing Center is now offering online instruction for students taking summer courses. The Online Writing Center allows you to video conference with a tutor and receive one-on-one feedback on your writing from a peer tutor. We use a combination of Zoom (for the video conference) and Google Docs (for you to share your draft with the tutor). As is true during an in-person session, you and the tutor will have a collaborative conversation about your draft during the online meeting.

Appointments are available Tuesdays 6:00-7:30pm Wednesdays from 4:00-5:30pm. For more information about this service and instructions for making an appointment, please see our Online Writing Center FAQ (linked below) or email Sarah Groeneveld Kenney (groeneve@augsburg.edu). For any other questions about the Writing Center, please email Jennifer Forsthoefel (forsthj@augsburg.edu).

Augsburg Online Writing Center FAQ and Sign-Up Sheet

submitted by petersj4@augsburg.edu

As members of the Lilly Network of Church-related Colleges and Universities, we are invited to apply to the Network’s Small Grant program.

Lilly Network grants are designed to forward the mission of the Lilly Network, which is to strengthen the quality and shape the character of church-related higher learning. Proposals are due September 15th and should directly or indirectly advance this mission at a local Lilly Network campus, among several campuses, or in a collaborative space.

Proposals will be accepted for the following programs:

Faculty Development / Mentoring – $3,000-$12.000

These grants are intended to help nurture faculty at all stages of their careers at Network institutions and strengthen the commitment of faculty to institutional mission.

Regional Collaboration / Conferences – $12,500

Previous conference grants have focused on issues facing schools in a particular region, topics of current debate among faculty at a particular school, student life issues, graduate student matters, various theological or denominational traditions in higher education, an array of topics in liberal and professional education, and issues of

Network Exchange (Best practice sharing) – $25,000

Network grants are designed to showcase distinctive, signature projects, institutes, or curricula that highlight the Christian or church-related characteristics of their schools.

For more info please visit the Lilly Network website at:: https://lillyfellows.org/grants-and-prizes/grant-suggestions-and-guidelines/

If you are interested in submitting an application, please contact Jay Tacke Peterson, Director of Grants & Sponsored Programs, by July 15th with a brief description of your proposal idea.

submitted by groeneve@augsburg.edu

The Augsburg Writing Center is now offering online instruction for students taking summer courses. The Online Writing Center allows you to video conference with a tutor and receive one-on-one feedback on your writing from a peer tutor. We use a combination of Zoom (for the video conference) and Google Docs (for you to share your draft with the tutor). As is true during an in-person session, you and the tutor will have a collaborative conversation about your draft during the online meeting.

Appointments are available Tuesdays 6:00-7:30pm Wednesdays from 4:00-5:30pm. For more information about this service and instructions for making an appointment, please see our Online Writing Center FAQ or email Sarah Groeneveld Kenney (groeneve@augsburg.edu). For any other questions about the Writing Center, please email Jennifer Forsthoefel (forsthj@augsburg.edu).

Online Writing Center FAQ

submitted by madden@augsburg.edu

Lifetime Achievement Award – Nancy Rodenborg, MSW, LGSW, MIA, PhD

Dr. Rodenborg was a United Nations volunteer in Somalia in the early 1980’s, setting the stage for her life-long commitment to transcultural relationships and international development with a global perspective. Since then, she has dedicated her research to understand the interactions between cultures and to apply that understanding particularly for the well-being of those who are newcomers, immigrants, refugees, people with disabilities, and/or from historically oppressed groups. Her dissertation research focused on the influence of institutional racism and discrimination in child welfare cases, building on her prior work as a child protection social worker or supervisor in Brown, Dakota and Hennepin Counties in Minnesota and a child protection trainer in Oregon. Her work embodies the link between theory and practice in the field of social work.

In addition to her teaching and research on diversity and inequality, Dr. Rodenborg has been a leader in global education, helping develop the Social Work in Mexico semester and leading student educational groups to Norway and Namibia, and implementing diversity curriculum programs including the Intergroup Dialogue method. Her research on intergroup dialogue and aversive racism is pioneering in the field and has helped frame the multicultural foundations of Augsburg’s MSW program. Dr. Rodenborg is also a remarkable collaborator who has partnered on numerous projects with faculty colleagues in her department, University, and with community partners, and has served on boards and commissions in community, nonprofit and educational settings.

submitted by shafer@augsburg.edu

URGO is pleased to welcome Amy Hill Cosimini to our staff. She will serve as URGO’s Undergraduate Research, Graduate School and Fellowships Specialist. Amy completed a PhD in Hispanic and Portuguese Literatures and Cultures and a minor in Human Rights from the University of MN this Spring. Over the past two years she worked as a graduate assistant in the Office of National and International Scholarships. She comes with a strong background in teaching and interdisciplinary research. We look forward to the many contributions she will make to the URGO team and Augsburg students. Welcome Amy!