2012

URGO Summer Research Conference features student work

Students to conduct summer research at Mayo, Johns Hopkins, and beyond

Biology major Alex Sorum presents winning poster at AAAS international meeting

2011

Katie Edelen: Triple majors, triple awards

Jennifer Oliver, Fulbright Scholar, will teach in Germany

Jeremy Anthony presents at Posters on the Hill

It’s Undergraduate Research Week

2010

A summer of investigation and discovery – URGO researchers

Three Fulbrights and counting

Scholars at the Capitol – David Praska ’10 talks psychology

2009

Emma Sutton, Fulbright Scholar, checks in from Indonesia

Nate Johnson is Rossing Physics Scholar

URGO research presentations

URGO research project focuses on our neighbors

URGO Summer Research Abstracts

Garver receives Goldwater Scholarship

Katie Macaulay is Augsburg second Fulbright Scholar of the year

Emma Sutton is Augsburg’s newest Fulbright Scholar

Augsburg scholars at the Capitol

Katie Macaulay ’09 didn’t know much about the Fulbright Scholarship program last spring. She had heard about the program, but kind of dismissed it as a realistic possibility.

“I thought it was a scholarship of the Ivy League, I thought it was out of reach,” Macaulay said. “I’m a small town girl from Minnesota.”

But something happened one day last April when Macaulay was studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She hopped on her computer, logged in to Inside Augsburg to check her e-mail and stumbled across the story of how fellow Auggies Ashely Stoffers and Erin Olsen had been awarded Fulbright scholarships. Continue reading “Fulbright Scholar teaches in Malaysia” →

Emma Sutton ’09 always wanted to know more about people who were different from her neighbors. Growing up in a Caucasian, Irish Catholic neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, Sutton said she never had contact with people from other races. But her mother, a Chicago police officer, did.

“My mother is very opinionated,” she said. “so I was automatically driven to investigate for myself if the things she said were true.”

And investigate she did. Sutton’s quest to learn about others eventually brought her to Greece, Turkey, the British Virgin Islands, and to Tanzania. This August, she will begin a nine-month assistant-ship in Indonesia teaching English as a Fulbright Scholar. Continue reading “Fulbright Scholar teaches in Indonesia” →