" ... The art of introspection has been become passé," writes St. Olaf Professor of Philosophy Gordon Marino in The New York Times. "Galileos of the inner world, such as Soren Kierkegaard, have been packed off to the museum of antiquated ideas. Yet the great and quirky Dane could help us to retrieve a distinction that has been effaced."

St. Olaf faculty member Christopher Aspaas '95 will release a new recording with the Minneapolis ensemble Magnum Chorum. The CD, Love Divine, includes a new composition by St. Olaf student Stanford Scriven '11.

St. Olaf Assistant Professor of Music Christopher Atzinger recently earned bronze medals at the Seattle International Piano Competition and the San Antonio International Piano Competition.

St. Olaf College will feature two events -- an interdisciplinary faculty discussion and a film screening -- to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of French writer, activist, philosopher, and mystic Simone Weil.

Elizabeth Nabel '74 has been named president of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston.

With three faculty members named 2009-10 Fulbright Scholars, St. Olaf ranks at the top of the list of Fulbright producers for bachelor's institutions.

Ray Shows, instructor of violin and viola at St. Olaf, recently played on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio program at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

This year's live online stream of the St. Olaf Orchestra Home Concert will be hosted by longtime public radio personality Melissa Ousley.

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants take on an important role on campus as they share a wealth of knowledge that includes political and social elements of their cultures. “Language and culture are inseparable,” says Chinese Assistant Yang Yang (right).

The St. Olaf Board of Regents recently named two long-time faculty members, Wendell Arneson and Gary Stansell, to distinguished professorships.

"It was the tight-knit community of St. Olaf College that really spurred his entrepreneurial proclivity," notes Mpls.St.Paul Magazine about the craft of Saman Bemel Benrud '09, who sold hundreds of his unique t-shirts while a student at St. Olaf.

A Minnesota Public Radio story focuses on how St. Olaf is using fewer toxic solvents and creating less hazardous waste in its chemistry labs, a move that’s not only environmentally friendly but also saves the college thousands of dollars each year.

When the women's rugby teams from St. Olaf and Macalester hit the field for a recent game outfitted in old prom dresses, it drew the attention of ABC's Good Morning America program and the Twin Cities CBS affiliate, WCCO-TV.

A $567,780 grant will bring St. Olaf an isotope ratio mass spectrometer — a powerful piece of equipment that will help bring student researchers and faculty members to the leading edge of environmental research.

St. Olaf Board of Regents Chair O. Jay Tomson '58 and his wife, Patricia McCarthy Tomson '59, have given $5 million for the renovation of St. Olaf's old science building. "This renovation will provide wonderful new academic space for the Education Department and foreign languages, including the World Languages Center," says Tomson.

Jeff Solomon, visiting assistant professor of English at St. Olaf, has been awarded Twentieth Century Literature's Andrew J. Kappel Prize for his work, "Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury."

The Daily Beast tracks down what they consider to be the 15 best college meal plans in the country in their "Best College Food" feature. One of the 15 is St. Olaf.

Kimberly Smisek '11 was named the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III "Player of the Week" after she averaged 5.79 kills/set and hit .366 in the Oles' 5-0 week.

St. Olaf College will award honorary degrees to Henry Oertelt, a Holocaust survivor and regular speaker on campus, and Roderic Camp, one of the most distinguished experts on Mexico in the United States, during a convocation ceremony Thursday, Oct. 15.

St. Olaf Professor of Music Anton Armstrong ’78 has been named a distinguished alumnus by Michigan State University. "He has attained the highest levels of artistic achievement and professional respect and admiration among his peers," says his nominator.

By the end of the camp that St. Olaf student Subhash Ghimire ’10 established in Nepal this summer, the children — most of whom had lost family members during that nation's civil war — were drawing pictures of birds instead of guns. “To me, that was the biggest achievement,” he says.