Category: Research

Group of people gather for a photo in front of the red barn at Seed Savers Exchange farm.

“This dashboard allows us to look at our sales history and make data-informed decisions,” said Meredith Burks of Seed Savers Exchange.

September 23, 2025
college students and their professor look at computer screen

Remote sensing technology is a growing movement in archaeology to adopt non-invasive methods.

August 26, 2025
Jack Moriarty head shot

For the 2024–25 academic year, Moriarty will receive $10,000 from the Thomas D. Rossing Fund for Physics Education.

September 30, 2024
Professor Pedlar stands next to two students, consulting with them over a computer

Since 2006, NSF grants have allowed Professor Todd Pedlar and Luther students to participate in international collaborations that conduct research in elementary particle physics. 

September 23, 2024
book cover graphic

Orçun Selçuk, assistant professor of political science at Luther College, recently published “The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization,” which examines the relationship between populism and polarization through leaders in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ecuador. 

July 25, 2024
college student works in the lab as part of the gray fox study.

The gray fox population is declining across the Midwest; Dawn Reding, associate professor of biology at Luther College, is trying to understand why. She’s leading part of the lab work of a multi-state study, which includes Iowa, Indiana and Illinois, on gray foxes. 

May 13, 2024
Kamina smiles at the camera in a sunny room.

Junior Kamina Gager is one of two students interning as a processing and reference archivist in the Archives Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (NMAH). Part of her job is helping to evaluate boxes of historical items, and processing and cataloging them for the museum as part of a large-scale processing project. 

April 17, 2024
Taipei Tzu Chi Buddhist hospital where Truong did research.

Luther College nursing major Duong Truong, class of 2024, spent his summer researching a Buddhist hospital in Taiwan and helping set up nursing school scholarships for Catholic nuns in Vietnam.

September 14, 2023
Luther College Land Stewardship and volunteers planting trees at Dr. Donald H. Nelson Woodlands

“The Nelson Woodlands project taught me the importance of restoring floodplains from an ecological perspective, as well as the importance of involving and educating the community on these practices,” said land stewardship intern Josie Meyer, who is majoring in environmental studies and biology.

August 18, 2023
Hayley Carr

Luther College senior Hayley Carr is getting a jump start on her career by developing classroom lesson plans while still in college.

April 6, 2023