Wartburg College

Three Wartburg College students presented their bacteriophage research at the American Society for Microbiology North Central Branch meeting in Grinnell. Juniors Zef Ngove and Chaitrali Reddy along with sophomore Gretchen Guetzlaff presented "Isolation, Characterization, and Host Range of Novel Microbacterium foliorum Bacteriophages."

Wartburg College Professor Mike Bechtel and senior Ella Brase recently presented "Into the Wild: Teaching Core Subjects Through an Environmental Lens" at the Early Learning Fall Institute in Des Moines.

Wartburg College students Pedro Martinez and Jenna Smuszkiewicz presented their research at the Midwest Regional Neuroscience Conference (MidBrains) in Eau Claire, Wis., on Oct. 22.

Three Wartburg College students have had their research published in the American Society for Microbiology journal Microbiology Resource Announcements.

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

The Wartburg College chapter of the Phi Eta Sigma first-year honor society recently inducted 31 new members.

Sameer Sarwar, a 2022 Cedar Falls High School graduate, is the recipient of Wartburg College's R.J. McElroy Minority Scholarship.

Zander White, a 2022 Cedar Falls High School graduate, is the recipient of Wartburg College's R.J. McElroy Minority Scholarship for Waterloo/Cedar Falls Students.

Katie Duncan, a 2022 Wartburg College graduate, was selected to illustrate the winning children's book in the second annual Bushel of Stories writing contest organized by the Iowa Agricultural Literacy Foundation.

Two Wartburg College students shared their research about remote learning at the 2022 Hawaii International Conference on Education.

Hanna Peterson, a rising senior at Wartburg College, shared a literature review at the 2022 Hawaii International Conference on Education.

Grace Roseen, a recent Wartburg College graduate, discussed her research on masks and facial recognition at the 2022 Midwest Psychological Association Conference in April.

Four Wartburg students discussed their ovarian cancer research at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Wartburg College awarded dipolomas to 253 students during Spring Commencement on Sunday, May 29.

Two Wartburg College students conducting research as part of the 2022 University of Iowa Summer Research Opportunity Program will present their findings on Wednesday, July 27.

Wartburg College has recognized 494 students who were named the 2022 Winter/May Term Dean's List.

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

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

Wartburg college senior Jared McLey is the recipient of an ELCA Fund for Leaders scholarship, which covers full tuition for students of tremendous promise attending ELCA seminaries.

Senior Danielle Peterson of Watertown, Minn., will deliver the student address at the Wartburg College Commencement on Sunday, May 29.

Wartburg College senior Rocio Amaro Marquez is one of two students to receive an R.J. McElroy Graduate Fellowship.

A Wartburg College student has received a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to carry out a summer humanitarian effort that will fund a community-run shower for girls and women in the Mahawai Rural Municipality of Nepal.

Wartburg College sophomore Paul Zelle has been awarded a $5,000 Rossing Scholarship in Physics from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The Wartburg College Opera Workshop will present two one-act operas, "Trial by Jury" and "The Old Maid and the Thief," on May 6 and 7.

A team of three Wartburg College students placed second in the 28th annual Iowa Collegiate Mathematics Competition.

The Wartburg College Department of Math, Computer Science & Physics has awarded Brandon Bloebaum, a senior studying actuarial science, a $1,000 scholarship underwritten by MinneAnalytics.

Three Wartburg College students were inducted into the Sigma Pi Sigma physics honor society in April.

Five Wartburg College students were inducted into the Kappa Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society in April.

Andrew Buchheim, a political science and English major at Wartburg College, will present his research at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium at Johns Hopkins University this month.

Andrew Ellison, a Wartburg College junior, was accepted into the college's Teacher Education Program.