Wartburg College

A team of Wartburg College graphic design students recently competed against undergraduate and graduate students from across the state to create a new brand identity and logo for an Iowa nonprofit. Design/Shift, a daylong design-a-thon hosted by Iowa State University, provides student teams with the opportunity to tackle real branding projects while simultaneously offering 12 nonprofits logos and brand identities they can begin using immediately.

A story about a local hairdresser's impact on her community earned Wartburg College students Karma Goodson and Logan Meagher third-place honors in the inaugural Iowa Business-for-Good Journalism Contest.

Wartburg College has recognized 507 students who were named the 2026 Winter/May Term Dean's List.

Wartburg College student-run media organizations captured nine top place finishes at the Iowa Broadcast News Association's annual conference and awards ceremony. In total the college's student-run television and radio stations earned 20 awards in categories ranging from political and sports coverage to in-depth storytelling and podcast creation.

Haylee DeLong and Carson Stetter will deliver the student messages at Wartburg College Commencement on Saturday, May 23.

Four Wartburg College students presented their research at the Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 25 at Bethel University.

Four Wartburg College students recently were recognized for their induction into the Lambda Pi Eta honor society.

Twenty-two Wartburg College students were inducted into the Beta Beta Beta honor society on March 25.

Nearly 60 Wartburg College students will sing at the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of the Masterwork Festival Chorus and Octavo Showcase.

Students from Wartburg College's Department of Journalism & Communication were recognized at an awards banquet during the 2026 Midwest Journalism Conference on April 11 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Chase Potter was inducted into the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society on March 29.

Seven Wartburg College students were inducted into the Kappa Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society in March.

A team of students from Wartburg College's Department of Journalism and Communication will premiere their documentary, "More Than a Team: A Knight's Legacy," Thursday, April 9, at 2:30 p.m., in Neumann Auditorium.

A Wartburg College student has received a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant to help build a reliable power source and install water tanks in the village of Chigodora in Zimbabwe this summer. Bladley Zimunya, a sophomore majoring in economics and business administration, grew up in Chigodora and understands how hard it is on the community of 10,000 to survive with just a single community water well that depends on an unreliable national electric grid. His project will install a solar-powered water pumping system and three 5,000-liter reservoir tanks, as well as training for two local technicians.

Six Wartburg College students will be the featured performers at the final Bach's Lunch organ series recital of the 2025-26 season Friday, April 10.

Madilyn Moore has been accepted into the Wartburg College Teacher Education Program.

Ali Parkhurst, editor-in-chief of The Wartburg Trumpet, won a Best of SNO award for her recent story "Rewa Chababo: Leaving a Mark." This marks Parkhurst's fifth Best of SNO award and first for The Wartburg Trumpet.

The work of four Wartburg College students will be on display in the Waldemar A. Schmidt Art Gallery April 9-May 23.

Thirty-one Wartburg College students have been accepted into the college's Teacher Education Program.

More than 15 Wartburg College students and recent graduates were recently recognized for their work with student media at the annual Iowa College Media Association Awards. In all, the students brought home 41 awards for work in print, video and audio. In addition to the individual achievements, KWAR, the college's student-run radio station, received its third straight Overall Audio Excellence Award.

Seven Wartburg College students presented their research during the annual IINspire Conference held earlier this month in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Wartburg College professor Michael Bechtel was once again among an elite group of educators selected to partner with a research astronomer to conduct a yearlong research project as part of the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program. Bechtel, who was first selected for this honor in 2019, will work with program director and researcher Luisa Rebull and educators from New Hampshire, Texas, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, as well as three elementary education students from Wartburg.

Wartburg College has recognized 570 students who were named to the 2025 Fall Term Dean's List.

Eight Wartburg College students were inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi honor society on Nov. 12, 2025.

Four Wartburg College students, Keziah Ambundo, Chris Guerrero, Caleb Kammerer and Ali Parkhurst, recently attended the 2025 Fast Forward Conference at the University of Northern Iowa.

A Wartburg College student has been accepted into the college's Teacher Education Program.

Three Wartburg College students were accepted into the college's Teacher Education Program.

Members of Wartburg College's Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) recently attended the Iowa Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) fall conference, OctoPRfest.

Twenty-four Wartburg College students were accepted into the college's Teacher Education Program.

Hannah Slater, Allie Spredemann and Aubrie Pruess, all Wartburg College students majoring in education, recently presented "Advocacy in Action" at the Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children Fall Institute.