Luther College has been working on restoring several former farm sites along the Upper Iowa River. Luther students have helped to uncover a rich crop of knowledge about Iowa’s original environment, the tallgrass prairie – its plants, its pollinator populations, and its effect on water and soil erosion.

Luther College announces that 259 students graduated in the spring of 2024. They were honored at the 2024 Commencement Ceremony on May 19. 

A rising senior majoring in history and minoring in museum studies, Hursh applied what she learned at Luther during a spring 2024 internship for the highest court in the U.S. 

A 2024 Luther graduate, Bilal will compete for Team USA, facing some of the best young powerlifters in the world, in the 2024 World University Powerlifting Championships in Tartu, Estonia, July 23–27. 

Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most respected undergraduate honors organization in the United States. The society has fostered and recognized excellence in the liberal arts and sciences since 1776.

Luther College graduating senior Matilda Koeller received the college’s Elizabeth A. and Paul G. Jenson Medal for the class of 2024. The announcement was made during the Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 19.

With the 2024 Commencement just around the corner, we’re celebrating the graduating class with Senior Spotlights.

Fulbright awards allow a senior and a 2023 grad to spend a year immersing themselves in German culture while teaching abroad.

Five Luther College seniors attended the annual Sigma Tau Delta Convention in St. Louis from April 3–6. The students, all English majors or minors and members of the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society, presented work on topics like George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” and queer identity in literature, in addition to original fiction and poetry. 

Two Luther students received $10,000 grants for innovative community-centered projects.