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Thursday, June 5 , 2008
Volume 7, Issue 39
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Luther Center Stage Series subscription tickets now on sale
Luther College Center Stage Series will bring 10 outstanding professional arts performances to the Center for Faith and Life stage for the 2008-09 season, including comedy, dance, epic drama, musical theater, and music ranging from jazz to bluegrass to gospel to classical string ensembles.
Tickets for Center Stage Series events may be purchased as a subscription package through Aug. 29 at Luther College Box Office. Read more: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/events/csstickets200809.html
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Luther Ultimate Frisbee summer camp registration deadline June 10
High school-age Ultimate Frisbee players have until June 10 to register for the Luther College Ultimate Frisbee Camp.
From June 12-15, Luther will host the nation’s first Ultimate Frisbee training and technique camp on a college campus. The camp is for high school students entering grades 10, 11, 12 and 2008 graduates. Read more: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/miscellaneous/ultimatecampreg.html
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Luther Professor Freeman’s ‘Julius Caesar’ published by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Shuster publishing company has announced the release of “Julius Caesar,” the latest book by Philip Freeman, professor of classics at Luther College. Freeman’s fascinating biography of the Western world’s best-known military-political leader is now available in bookstores nationwide and at all popular Web site book vendors.
Freeman’s “Julius Caesar” is listed as a main selection by both the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club and has received critical praise in Kirkus Reviews as a “fresh look at one of history's most dynamic and controversial figures.” Read more: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/facultystaff/freemancaesarbook.html
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Luther College Professor Wilkerson receives Janet Anderson Lecture Award
Jeffrey Wilkerson, department head and associate professor of physics at Luther College, has been named a Janet Anderson Lecture Award winner.
Wilkerson was selected as the Anderson Award winner for the Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium. He will present one of the keynote lectures at the Midstates Consortium for Mathematics and Science symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, Oct. 31-Nov. 2. Read more: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/facultystaff/janetandersonaward.html
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Luther College student Aung Ye Naing receives ELCA Herman Scholarship
Aung Ye Naing, a Luther College sophomore from Yangon, Myanmar, is one of 13 students awarded Phoebe Herman Scholarships from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The ELCA scholarships, ranging from $1,00 to $2,000, are funded by the Herman Scholarship Endowment Fund and are granted to international students attending one of the 28 ELCA colleges and universities in the 2008-09 academic year. Read more: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/students/hermanscholarship.html
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DAIS: Doing Any Interesting Stuff?
Don’t make them toot their own horn; tell the Public Information Office about achievements by Luther College faculty, staff, students and alumni. Appropriate items include, but are not limited to, papers presented, awards or grants received, articles and books published and offices held. To toot someone else’s horn, visit: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/goodnews/
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Alumni Corner
Matt Czechowicz ’02, graduated in May with a doctorate in medicine from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Czechowicz will start a family medicine residency in Duluth, Minn. in late June.
Megan Stull ’00, received the master’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa in post-secondary education, student affairs. She has joined Clarke College as its assistant director of admissions.
Martha (Syverson) Gehrking ’73, is retiring in June from Byron High School after 34 years of teaching.
Odell Bjerkness ’56, professor emeritus at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., is the author of “The Prince and the Nanny: The life of Prince Harald, now King of Norway, as Seen Through the Journal of Children’s Nurse, Inga Berg” to be published in November. Read more: http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/miscellaneous/odellbjerkness.html
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And a side of sports. Read more: http://sports.luther.edu/
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