St. Olaf senior Megan Makeever's latest CD, Unstoppable, won an award of merit in the Global Music Awards competition.

Students in Associate Professor of Exercise Science Chris Daymont's new Exercise Prescription class became personal fitness trainers this semester, working with community members to develop workout plans and track progress.

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Frederick Stoutland '54 died recently in Helsinki, Finland. He was 78. Stoutland taught at St. Olaf for 35 years before retiring in 1996.

Lizzie Gelle '12 parlayed her volunteer experience and diverse course work at St. Olaf into a job offer from Best Buy Corporation six months before graduation.

"The balance is to keep rooted to our foundations, but always be looking to what the world needs," Anton Armstrong '78, artistic director of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, told the hosts of TPT's Almanac show Friday.

With video games topping many a wish list this holiday season — and the latest Call of Duty game racking up an eye-popping $1 billion in sales in just two weeks — Ben Houge '96 shares what it's like to compose the sound behind this popular form of entertainment.

The Christian Science Monitor has named the upcoming national broadcast of this year's St. Olaf Christmas Festival one of its "Top Picks" of the year.

Charlie Raskob '12 used the teamwork skills he's gained as a member of the St. Olaf men's hockey program — along with the resources in the Center for Experiential Learning and a summer internship — to land a job with Target Corporation six months before graduation.

A walk into Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences these days might put you in the middle of a playground. A molecular playground, that is. Just inside the building’s main entrance, pedestrians can walk through a hallway where their motion causes a variety of projected molecular structures to spin on the wall and present multiple views.

With a perfect score, the St. Olaf team of Huong Vu '12, Ling Gu '12, and Boyang Wei '13 earned a first-place finish at the 15th annual Mathematical Association of America North Central Section competition.

David '62 and Karen Olson recently provided the college with two significant gifts that will be added to the Social Work and Family Studies Department endowment they established nearly a decade ago. The gifts coincide with David Olson's 50th class reunion that will be held in June.

The four David Andersons on campus — President David R. Anderson '74 and three students — are used to getting each other's mail and email, but now there's an official student organization that enables them to formally share in the joys and tribulations of being a "D.A."

A Best Buy internship that Benjamin Leis '12 landed with the help of resources in the St. Olaf Center for Experiential Learning provided more than valuable experience — it led to a full-time job offer six months before graduation.

Each week a growing number of St. Olaf students visit the middle and high schools in Northfield to lead the Awesome Club, a social skills program several Oles founded to help children with autism.

For Wittney Dorn '13, Seth Greendale '13, and Daniel Sacerio '13, who have been studying at the American University in Cairo since August, the Egyptian revolution has provided a learning experience both inside and outside the classroom.

Minnesota Public Radio's higher ed blogger, Alex Friedrich, recently spent a day writing from St. Olaf about a variety of topics, ranging from chapel and Clarinet Choir to a pirate class and lutefisk.

"We offer people an opportunity to . . . sit back and reflect on the good things in their lives, those things in which they struggle, and allow the music to be a healing balm," Anton Armstrong '78, artistic director of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, tells MPR's Alison Young.

The St. Olaf Christmas Festival will expand its audience this year with a live simulcast to nearly 400 theaters across 45 states Sunday, December 4.

A group of entrepreneurial St. Olaf students put the spirit of a Norwegian sweater into a much more affordable T-shirt, and Oles have swarmed to buy them — with all proceeds going to a nonprofit microfinance organization.