Category: Variety
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First ComicCon showcases student creations
Emily Roehl and their English 200 class, Literary Experience: Comics & Graphic Narratives, will bring Augustana’s first comic book and graphic novel convention, named AugieCon, to campus Tuesday, May 9, and Thursday, May 11. The convention will invite the community to celebrate students’ work on comics, posters and panels, as well as celebrate the broader…
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New professor brings expertise to psychology department
A new psychology professor joined the faculty this academic year, whose ambition for knowledge has led to an array of experiences and expertise in the field of psychology. Qijuan Fang teaches many developmental psychology courses at Augustana, including Life-span Human Development, Child Psychology and General Psychology. In the classroom, Fang takes responsibility for helping students learn…
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Animals on campus provide comfort to students
The first floor of the Froiland Science Complex is dead silent aside from the chatter of passerby students. As students ascend the spiral staircase to the second floor, however, the chatter is replaced by the faint cheeps and chirps of birds from the aviary. On the opposite side of campus in the Morrison Commons, students…
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“All in the Timing” combines short stories, common theme
The final production from the Augustana Theatre showcases a combination of stories that all fall under one theme: the timing of communication. “All in the Timing” is a collection of short plays with six distinct stories. Though each story represents a different existential topic, they all intertwine wit and humor to create a collectively thought-provoking production.…
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Physics professor represents women in STEM
In spring 1987, college freshman Amy Bylsma sat in the back left corner in the last row of her Calculus III class. It was incredibly unlike her. She was usually one of those students who sat front and center, but the course wasn’t going well for her. She had a B-minus. A problem posed on…
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Drag performance electrifies the Back Alley
In the Back Alley on Friday, April 14, the lights were dimmed and a spotlight beamed down the runway and landed on the stage at the front of the room. The room was packed from back to front. Students from all walks of life sat in anticipation of what they had been promised: a drag…
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Artist uses fabric to imitate nature
A video playing on a television illuminates the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery as visitors enter. It shows clips of a forest’s bright, autumn-colored leaves — leaves of honeysuckle yellow, burnt orange, deep burgundy and gold. Tall autumn trees stand against indigo skies, and a crumpled beige leaf floats down to earth. As a breeze gusts through the…
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Students advocate for sustainability at research symposium
Nobody planned for sustainability to become a theme surrounding the Arthur Olsen Student Research Symposium this year. It was the biology department’s turn to coordinate a keynote speaker. In October 2022, the symposium committee signed off on Esther Ngumbi, assistant professor of entomology and African American studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses…
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Sodexo offers Ramadan meals to foster inclusion
To better support students celebrating Ramadan, Augustana Dining Services is now providing more halal meals to students who are religiously fasting. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which able-bodied Muslims participate in daily fasting. “Muslims are fasting from sunrise to sunset,” Sara Alhasnawi, a fasting Muslim said. “It celebrates the…
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Air Jordan film gives viewers new perspective on Nike shoe history
Directed by Ben Affleck (“Argo”), the new Amazon Studios movie “Air” is a comedic drama about the true story of Nike’s basketball shoe line. Between its star-studded cast and the memorable production, the film mirrors the exhilarating feeling of watching a buzzer-beater shot in a high-stakes basketball game. Set in the 1980s, the film focuses…