Set Page Colour

BlackBlueFuchsiaGrayGreenIndigoMaroonNavyOliveOrangePurpleRedSaddleBrownSkyBlueTealYellowGreen

Set Font Size and Page Width

Small width layoutMedium width layoutMaximum width layoutMaximum textMedium textSmall text
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Page Options

   

$150,400 Carver grant will
fund NMR spectrometer

Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer will aid inquiry-based learning for science students.


U-Haul Car Share program
will offer hourly car rentals

Program will give international students a transportation option; others can leave vehicles at home.


Seven Keep on Learning
courses announced for 2011-12

Wide-ranging topics will kick off with the Rev. Larry Trachte adapting his popular ‘Living with Death' course.


Megan Herickhoff second
runner-up in Miss International

Wartburg senior previously had been Miss Teen Minnesota International in 2008.


Get Adobe Flash player Install latest flash player if you can't see this gallery, or click here to see the html version.

Chris Knudson ’01, Marketing and Communication director of creative strategy, is quoted about how Wartburg got its name with a video describing it on Tweed, a Chronicle of Higher Education blog.


Josh Johnson ’06, the new dean of students and athletic director at Union High School in La Porte City, and newly promoted cross country Coach Heidi Porter ’07 are featured in the Cedar Valley Times.


Linebacker Brian McIntire ’06 is handed the MVP trophy by a Sioux Falls Storm teammate after it wins its fifth Indoor Football League championship as reported in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.


Solon High School Principal Nathan Wear ’02 is among school leaders profiled in the Iowa City Press Citizen.


Jessica McClellan ’10 is among the new teachers in the Paola, Kansas, school district featured in the Miami County Republic.


Dr. Daniel Kaplunas is profiled in a feature on the Wartburg Community Symphony season in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.


Wartburg hosts high school students during Iowa Private College Week as reported by KWWL.


Wartburg is 157th in rankings of 650 U.S. undergraduate colleges — the top 20 percent — by educational outcomes in Forbes magazine.


Dr. Scott Fullwiler is cited in “The Market Has Spoken: Austerity is Bad for Business” on the Global Research blog.


13 Wartburg students were named All-Academic by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.


Two members of the Niagara Falls High School girls basketball team were working at the Snow Valley basketball camp, as reported by the Niagara (N.Y.) Gazette.


Barb Shultz ’79 is named director of Fort Dodge Public Library as reported in the  Fort Dodge Messenger.


Former Wartburg softball star Ashley Rogers ’08 is inducted into the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Softball Hall of Fame as reported by  Iowa Prep Sports.


Basketball player Tanner Kramer ’14 is profiled in the Albert Lea (Minn.) Herald.


Tennis coach Matt Tyler wins the Iowa Open title as reported in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.


Artist Shena Blomgren ’97 is profiled in the Waunakee (Wis.) Tribune.


Clear Lake middle school musical teacher Nichole Barragy ’96 is profiled in the Mason City Globe Gazette.


Rev. Dr. David Bigley ’87, a pastor at United Methodist churches in Wabash County, Ill., was featured in the Mt. Carmel (Ill.) Daily Republican Register.


Logan Hansen ’12 is among 132 football players from all divisions nominated for the All State "Good Works Team" for achievements off the field — in the Albert Lea (Minn.) Tribune.


Incoming Wartburg student Seth Mommsen leads Northeast High School of Goose Lake in district baseball tournament — in the Clinton Herald.


Troy Merritt, whose father, Mark ’83, is in the Wartburg College Hall of Fame for baseball and basketball, and whose brother, Ben ’10, played football at Wartburg, is on the PGA Tour — as cited in the Des Moines Register.


Dr. Edith Waldstein is quoted about the timeline for high school students to apply to college on the CNBC website.


Dr. Scott Fullwiler wrote "QE3, Treasury Style—Go Around, Not Over the Debt Ceiling Limit" on the Naked Capitalism blog.


Dr. Scott Fullwiler is cited in a story about the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing effort in “QE2 Shocker: The Whole $600 Billion Wound Up Offshore” in the Truthout blog.


Dr. Bill Withers tells “How to Complain (and Get Results)” in Good Housekeeping magazine.


Former Wartburg golfer Ryan Kinseth ’06 is quoted in a story about the Fort Dodge City Tournament in the Fort Dodge Messenger. 


St. Anthony High School of St. Cloud (Minn.) catcher Alex Jensen, a Wartburg recruit, is mentioned in the St. Cloud Times. 


JoHanna Smrcina ’12, AmeriCorps’ Waverly Community Garden coordinator and social work major, and Dr. Tammy Faux are quoted in a story about the gardens in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. 


JoHanna Smrcina ’12 wrote about the Waverly Community Gardens project in the Waverly Newspapers. 


George Toops ’75 was mentioned in Patrick Reusse's column about Twins' fans in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. 


Basketball player Leslie Wilson ’12 was profiled in the Austin (Minn.) Herald.


Dr. Bill Withers discussed consumer complaints in a story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

 

Kevin Ault '06 won the Fort Dodge Amateur golf tourney by six strokes and was featured in the
Fort Dodge Messenger.

 

Dr. Scott Muntefering, assistant professor of music education, reconnects a family with an ancestor, a former Cedar Falls Municipal Band leader in  
the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier .

 

ESPN's Scott Harves ’97 is lauded in  
si.com 
as one of top 10 media people for feature on Michigan prep who died after making winning basket

 

Wartburg's 3+4 degree program to accelerate a student's entry to seminary, is featured in The Lutheran.

 

Bradley Watson ’11, former Wartburg pitcher, was drafted in the 37th round by the St. Louis Cardinals.

 

The Stillwater (Minn.) Gazette interviewed Eric Hilpert, captain of the Stillwater Area High School tennis, who is coming to Wartburg after attending broadcast camp.

 

Wartburg College baseball coach Joel Holst will be inducted into the Coe College Hall of Fame.

 

"Lessons Learned: The Iowa Disasters of 2008,"
an hour-long documentary produced by Wartburg Television in partnership with the Rebuild Iowa Office, will premiere June 1 at the State Historical Society Building in Des Moines.

 

George Washington Carver students from Waterloo tour Wartburg in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.

 

Former NCAA DIII cross country champ Josh Moen ’05
posts personal best in 25K finish.

 

Wartburg women set all-time NCAA Division III record in the 4x400 at the Drake Relays.

 

Former Wartburg standout Robyn Friedman '95 broke her Drake half-marathon record.

 

Keith Solverson '06
won the 5-mile Cherry Creek (Colo.) Sneak.

 

Dr. Terrence Lindell
is quoted in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader about the influence of Populism.


Former Alamosa Police Chief John Jackson '90 will be the keynote speaker at the Trinidad State Junior College-Valley Campus graduation May 13 in Alamosa, Colo. He is currently chief in Greenwood Village, Colo.


Steve Johnson '97, assistant softball coach at Auburn University, is profiled in The Auburn Plainsman.


Lori Tlach '11 was profiled in the Britt News Tribune.



A Hudson teen was awarded a Cedar Valley Mother Moon Scholarship in part because of her work with Wartburg's High School Leadership Institute.



Former Wartburg soccer coach TJ Buchholz was named women's coach at Southwest Missouri State.


Brothers
Kyle and Kelly McCarville ’10 from Cresco were featured in a story about their band, the Goat Ropers.


Albert Lea (Minn.) High School student Alyssa Sager, a Wartburg basketball recruit, was inducted into her school's Wall of Inspiration.


Travis Beck '06 and Blair Buffington '95, co-directors of the North Iowa Choral Society, were featured in a Mason City Globe Gazette story.


Preston High School basketball star Joel Geier, a Wartburg recruit, was featured in the Clinton Herald.

 


Dr. Mark McDermott i
s featured on the University of Iowa College of Education's "Why Iowa?" website as the state's 2008 outstanding high school biology teacher.


UNI's Northern Iowan featured Tom Dirth '09 who is working on his master's degree in social psychology.

Margaret Runaas '09 was one of three winners in the University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Music's Beethoven Piano Competition.


Greg Stark '84, a Phoenix area financial adviser, was involved in an Arizona Republic online chat about income tax issues.

Kristina Hill '01 joined Charter Communications as senior communications manager overseeing media relations and communications for Charter, Charter Business and Charter Media in Louisiana.


Wartburg and Augsburg wrestling rivalry sportsmanship extolled on d3wrestle.com.


Wartburg and UNI welcome middle school students from Kansas with a college dream from the University of Kansas.


Ames High School students prepare for the Iowa Junior Academy of Science competition at Wartburg in April in the Ames Tribune.


Alyssa Sager, Wartburg basketball recruit, is named player of the year in the Albert Lea Tribune.


Amy Nicklay Alvarez '04, program manager for the Mississippi Valley Child Protection Center, interviewed about child protection issues in The Muscatine Journal..


Marathoners Andy and Erin Moeller '00 are featured in the Cedar Rapids Gazette's Eastern Iowa Life.


Peggy Ficker Retka '03 profiled as a leading young professional by the St. Cloud (Minn.) Times. 


Dr. Noreen Herzfeld's lecture on connection between cyberspace and theology covered in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.


Wartburg Japanese student Masa Hirakawa discusses his reaction to the Sendai earthquake on KWWL.


Wartburg wins eighth NCAA DIII wrestling championship.


Gov. Branstad praises Waverly, Wartburg economic development partnership in the Waverly Democrat.


Marcus Newsom is selected as the Central Region women's track and field coach of the year by U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Association.


Wartburg women's track and field team for a third consecutive national indoor title previewed in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.


Women win 4x400-meter relay, team finishes second at NCAA DIII indoor meet.


Dr. Jane Andrews is quoted in the Abu Dhabi Weekly about Castle Singers' United Arab Emirates trip.


Ramin Honary '05, an Oracle employee, was reported to be safe in Japan by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.


The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier profiled Dr. Arthur and Aida Frick in conjunction with their art exhibit.


The Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier previews the quest of the Wartburg women's track and field team for a third consecutive national indoor title.


Marcus Newsom is selected as the Central Region women's track and field coach of the year by U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Association.


Tom Hogan '93 is named new head wrestling coach at Don Bosco High School in Gilbertville in the Jesup Citizen Herald.


Brett Landon '96 had his business featured in the Rochester Post-Bulletin


Pastor Brian Beckstrom wrote "Intolerance Among the Tolerant Generation" for the Living Lutheran blog.


Michelle Feine '11 and Annie Fangman were quoted on their trip to South Padre Island by United Press International.


Wartburg Community Symphony director and professor of music Dr. Janice Wade is profiled on her upcoming retirement in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.


Dr. Bill Withers is quoted about 'managing sideways in the Philadelphia Inquirer.


Dr. Jeff Stein is quoted about public employees' e-mails and the Open Records Law in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.


Nathan Wear '02 was appointed principal at Solon High School, as reported in the Iowa City Press Citizen.


Amy Dau '08, administrative director at the special-needs Learning Center in Evansdale, is featured in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.


Wartburg graduate Brandon Brissette finds success as Olivet College wrestling coach on Mlive.


Wartburg produces top-notch medical students as reported in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.


Professor Jeff Stein talks about Shirley Sherrod's libel suit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart in the Washington Times.


Former regent from Pakistan reviews book on cricket in Pakistan Times.


Jack Salzwedel '82 will become chairman and chief executive officer of American Family Insurance in Journal Sentinel.


Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier features "green trend" at Wartburg.


Fred and Gloria Strickert describe their new mission in Jerusalem in the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier.


Karen Rogers '86 was inducted into the Springfield (Ill.) Road Runners' Hall of Fame in The State Journal Register.


Jill Crouse '81 Wartburg Grad, a senior statistician with ACT, was profiled in the Muscatine Journal


Recent Wartburg graduate Allison Stotts working for Grow Forest City in the Globe Gazette.


Wartburg's involvement in a respite care program for foster parents was featured in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

 

Get Adobe Flash player Install latest flash player if you can't see this gallery, or click here to see the html version.

Privacy Statement | Terms Of Use© 2008 Wartburg College - Waverly, IA Home  |  Alumni News  |  Athletics News  |  Faculty/Staff News  |  Student Media  |  Wellness and Recreation  |  Coming Events  |  Archives