Category: Honors & Awards

 Luther’s spring 2021 opera production of “Dido and Aeneas” won first place in Division II of the National Opera Association’s Opera Production Competition

Robert J. Christman has received the Gerald Strauss prize for his book “The Dynamics of the Early Reformation in their Reformed Augustinian Context.”

Luther College is honored to present the Noble, Sperati, Presser, and Hemp awards this 2021 homecoming season.

Luther College President Jenifer K. Ward is proud to announce the 2021 recipients of the Distinguished Service Award.

This grant will allow more students to actively contribute to research based in Japan aimed at understanding the building blocks of the universe.

Arpine Hovhannisyan ’22 was selected to receive the Dr. Christopher C. Joyner Memorial award.

Luther College graduating senior Madeline Lomprey received the college’s Elizabeth A. and Paul G. Jenson Medal for the class of 2021.

Luther College graduate, Joseph Keeley ’20, has moved up from an alternate Fulbright award winner to a finalist.

The Austrian-American Educational Commission has selected Luther College alumna Gabrielle Bruns to serve as a U.S. teaching assistant for the 2019-20 academic year.

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.