Ross Szabo, director of youth awareness for the national mental health awareness campaign, shares his personal and powerful story about his struggles with mental illness Sunday, Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall on the campus of Luther College.
Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core of Chicago, will present "Acts of Faith," the 2009 Luther College Paideia Lecture on Thursday, Sept. 3, 9:40 a.m. in the Center for Faith and Life on the campus of Luther College.
Donna Bauck, a food service manager with 15 years professional experience, has been named the general manager of food service operations at Luther College by the Sodexo company, which directs the college's food service.
Winneshiek County Convention and Visitors Bureau is kicking off a fun and educational new festival called "Dig IN: the Decorah Iowa Green INitiative" on Aug. 21-23. The WCCVB and partners established this first annual event to celebrate the Decorah area as a leader in green initiatives.
Robert Schultz '74, author of the newly published non-fiction book "We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War," and Robert Hunt, World War II U.S. Navy veteran who served on 12 war patrols as a crewman on a submarine in the western Pacific, will be the featured guests at a book signing session Thursday. Aug. 13, 1-2:30 p.m. in the Luther Book Shop...
Luther College President Richard Torgerson has named Robert Harri to the position of Luther's director of safety and security. Harri will assume his new duties at Luther in August.
Luther College President Richard Torgerson has named Daniel Bellrichard '01 to the position of Luther sustainability coordinator. Bellrichard will begin his duties at Luther in August.
Beth Lynch, Luther College associate professor of biology, has been awarded $109,000 for a second year of funding on a National Science Foundation grant to support a four-year collaborative research project titled "The effect of landscape context on the sensitivity of vegetation to climate change."
Erik Mortens, a Luther College junior from Johnston, Iowa, was recently named a member of the volunteer prosection team in the International Human Cadaver Prosection Program at the Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest (IUSM-NW).
Philip Freeman, Luther College professor of classics, has been named the recipient of a $24,950 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of his NEH Enduring Questions pilot course, titled "Enduring Questions: Gilgamesh to Frankenstein."