Luther College alumnus awarded Torrison and Williams medical scholarships

Matthew Benson ’22 has been awarded a graduate medical education scholarship through the Torrison and Williams Scholarship Program for the 2022-23 academic year.

Richard “Rick” Torgerson, Luther’s ninth president, died on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.

Their mission–to find concrete solutions to the unique challenges and opportunities that exist in rural Iowa.

The International Owl Center’s Ukrainian Art for Ukrainian Kids fundraiser is a major success.

Alessandro Raniolo, Leah Vriesman and Liang Chee Wee will join the Luther College Board of Regents.

Luther College has a long tradition of producing Rossing Physics Scholars. In the last 10 years, 12 scholarships have been awarded to Luther physics students.

Each year, the Young Alumni Award goes to a Luther graduate who has attained significant personal achievements, demonstrated leadership abilities and provided service to Luther or society.

Katy Dane ’03, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Music Educator Award by The National Association for Music Education and the Barbershop Harmony Society.

Luther alumnus Chris Norton is returning to Decorah to speak about his new book, “The Seven Longest Yards.”

Vicar Amalia Vagts, a 1995 Luther graduate, is a candidate for word and sacrament ministry in the Northeastern Iowa Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church in America (ELCA.) All candidates studying to become pastors in the ELCA complete a year of pastoral internship. Vagts’ internship is a collaboration between the Luther College student congregation with supervisor Pastor Anne Edison-Albright and two area congregations: Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkader, Iowa and Emanuel Lutheran Church in Strawberry Point, Iowa with supervisor Pastor Susan Friedrich.