Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway visited St. Olaf College on Oct. 14 as part of a tour to highlight the strong ties between Norway and Minnesota's Norwegian-American community.
The new major at St. Olaf College will feature courses in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, fantasy and science fiction writing, as well as screenwriting.
The event, titled Recognizing Excellence, Challenges and the Work Ahead, featured two keynote addresses and dozens of breakout sessions and workshops held virtually and on the St. Olaf College campus.
Two projects that started in a St. Olaf College class and continued through an internship with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) are now a part of its Learning Lab series.
The St. Olaf College Orchestra's summer tour will begin in Alexandria, Minnesota, on Memorial Day and culminate with the St. Olaf Orchestra Reunion Concert on June 4.
Recent St. Olaf College graduate Kristian Noll '21 is the first Ole to receive the German International Parliament Stipendium, a highly competitive and prestigious international award.
Twin Cities Business magazine has named St. Olaf College Vice President for Equity and Inclusion María Pabón to its 2021 list of Notable Leaders in Higher Education.
St. Olaf College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Rodrigo Sanchez-Gonzalez’s lab recently received more than $500,000 worth of scientific equipment from the NASA Langley Research Center that will enable students to perform increasingly complex experiments.
An estate gift from David Tweet ’59 and Janice Johnson Tweet ’58 will create St. Olaf College's largest endowed scholarship to date and support STEM and Music majors. St. Olaf also has named one of its music facilities after the couple.
The National Science Foundation has awarded St. Olaf College student Laurie Balstad ’21 a Graduate Research Fellowship that will support her doctoral work in population biology at the University of California, Davis.
