Artist Tiberiu Chelcea brings old and new together with his unique art featuring pages from vintage trigonometry textbooks. The exhibit, open to the public with no charge for admission, is on display Oct. 22 to Dec. 11 in Preus Library on the Luther College campus. 

Featuring four talented jazz musicians and an original suite based on children's poetry, the Chad Eby Quartet will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Recital Hall in the Center for Faith and Life on the Luther College campus.

Trever Schwichtenberg, Luther College senior from Owatonna, Minnesota, will perform a piano recital at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on the Luther campus.

Featuring a variety of works both classic and contemporary, Jennaya Robison, Luther College assistant professor of music, will perform a vocal recital at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, in the Noble Recital Hall in the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on the Luther campus. The recital is open to the public with no charge for admission.

The Religion department will show the Academy Award winning film, "Spotlight," from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25 in Olin room 102. A discussion led by religion department faculty will follow the showing of the film. "Spotlight" is the compelling true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that challenged and uprooted one of the world's oldest and most trusted religious institutions.

Featuring the works of Iowa composer Michael Kimber, Polish violist Marcin Murawski will perform a viola recital Luther College at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9, in the Noble Recital Hall in the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on the Luther campus. The recital is open to the public with no charge for admission.

Luther College's Visual and Performing Arts department presents William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," Oct. 6-8 in the Jewel Theatre in Luther's Center for the Arts. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6th, 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 7th, and at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8th.

Luther College will celebrate Homecoming 2016 Friday through Sunday, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, bringing more than 5,000 students, friends and alumni back to campus and to partake in class reunions, sporting events, musical concerts and more. For full Homecoming schedule, go to http://www.luther.edu/homecoming/schedule/.

Featuring a repertoire of contemporary compositions, Heather Armstrong, Luther College associate professor of music, will perform an oboe recital at 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, in the Noble Recital Hall in the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on the Luther campus.

Currently the fastest growing area in basic scientific research, neuroscience, the interdisciplinary study of how the nervous system functions to control every aspect of humanness, is the newest major in Luther College's curriculum.

While the theological and political debates that shaped Luther College and the other Norwegian Lutheran colleges gather dust, according to Gracia Grindal, the writings of these pastors' wives, their daughters and granddaughters, live on and continue to be read with interest. Grindal, professor emerita of rhetoric at Luther Seminary, will draw on her new book, "Unstoppable: The Norwegian Pioneers Educate their Daughters," to talk about the education of women in the early years of Norwegian settlement for the 2016 fall Phi Beta Kappa lecture. Grindal was a Luther English department faculty member from 1968 to 1984.

Luther College's Visual and Performing Arts department presents Patrick M. Strain's "stained glass" at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1st in the Storre Theatre.