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NEW Wellness Challenge: The Fruit Frenzy! Challenge

Introducing the new wellness challenge: Fruit Frenzy! Challenge

Get wild and go bananas (or cherries or oranges)… for fruit! You can work toward your Personal Health Goal by adding fresh fruit into your daily routine. The Fruit Frenzy! Challenge will help you incorporate nutrient-rich fruits into your diet. This challenge is a part of the Active Wellness program. It is open to ALL Faculty and Staff.

Interested in some friendly competition with your coworkers?

How to participate:
- Eat at least two servings of fruit five days each week for three weeks (15 total days)
- Record your participation at www.myinteractivehealth.com/MyHealthTools
Use the Fruit and Veggie Tracker on the Challenge Dashboard or the Food Log to enter the fruits you've eaten

For participants that completed a Biometric screening as a part of our Active Wellness Program, successful completion of the Fruit Frenzy! Challenge will earn you 50 points towards reaching your personal Health Goal to be eligible for the 2015 incentive.

JOIN IN THE FUN!
Register from May 28 to June 10 by clicking on Sign Up on the challenge banner at www.myinteractivehealth.com/MyHealthTools. First time registrants use sponsor code V9DXA. Challenge runs Wed., June 4-Wed., June 25.

1. Log on to www.myinteractivehealth.com/MyHealthTools
2. Click Sign Up Now under the Challenge banner
3. Select Augsburg College from the Select Your Team drop down menu
4. Complete your registration by clicking Sign Up Now

EARN REWARDS
Maximize your wellness program benefits. Complete the challenge and earn 50 points. This is one of four challenge opportunities offered throughout the year to earn points toward your goal for 2015 incentives.

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Food Service Hours

Commons
Closed Until Early June

Einstein's
Monday-Friday
7:30am-1:30pm

Nabo
Monday-Friday
10:00am-2:00pm

WEC HOURS
Nabo
Friday
4:00pm-7:00pm
Saturday
10:00am-2:00pm
Einstein's
Friday
4:00pm-8:00pm
Saturday
7:30am-5:00pm

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Last Chance to Get a 2014 Summer Vegetable Share

Augsburg is one of the Twin Cities drop sites for organic vegetable shares from Ploughshare Farm (www.ploughshare.com). The 2014 share owners just got an email from Farmer Gary that our first summer shares may be delivered as early as next Thursday. AND, there are still a few shares left! If you've been considering signing up there's still time (but not much!).

Go to www.ploughshare.com for more info about share options. If you have questions about what it's like to have a weekly delivery of straight-off-the-farm organic vegetables or about the Augsburg College drop-site logistics, send me an email at rjohn@augsburg.edu .

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Staffing Changes in Public Safety

Effective as of June 1, James Shropshire is the Interim Director, Public Safety. Auggie alum Conor Tobin is the Interim Assistant Director, Public Safety.

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Thank You to Outgoing Staff Senators

The Staff Senate would like to recognize the contributions of its outgoing senators ending their term this month (May 2014). These elected volunteers help to provide programming around staff support and recognition.

- Keith Bateman, Athletics (2 years of service)
- Tracy Christianson, Student Affairs (2 years of service)
- Jill Davenport, Central Support Services (3 years of service)
- Sara Schlipp-Riedel, Alumni-Parent Relations (2 years of service)

Please join the Staff Senate and the College in expressing gratitude for their work and true Auggie spirit!

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Mina Halling '12 Publishes

Mina Halling '12 sent the English Dept the following news and testimonial:

"First off, (a very abridged version of) my Departmental Honors project, 'Adventures in Time, Space and Community College: Narrative Structure and Thematic Depth,' has been featured in A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom. Colin [Irvine] helped put me in contact with the editor of the collection over a year ago, and the book is finally ready to go. (And my essay is first! Exciting.) Here's a link: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-7590-2

"I also have a personal narrative piece, 'Trivia Weekend: The Less Cool (but no less great) Minnesota Get-Together,' that is about to be included in an e-book called Bright Lights, Twin Cities: A Collection of Stories from Real Minnesotans. Here's a link for that one: http://thetangential.com/bright-lights-twin-cities/

"... I'm sharing this stuff with you as a delayed part of Thank A Teacher Day. I'd like to say a huge thank you to each of you for making me a better writer, editor, thinker and person. I feel like I'm making steps on the long path to Making A Living By Writing, which is pretty awesome, and it wouldn't be happening if it weren't for your influence."

Thanks and congratulations to Mina from the second floor of Memorial.

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Auggies Receive Gilman International Scholarship

Five More Auggies received the Gilman International Scholarship. Congrats to Smeret Hailom (Turkey), Ayan Khayro (Turkey), Fowziia Elmi (UAE) and Lizzie Fontaine (Spain) for study this Fall. Gao Sheng Yang was awarded for study this summer in China. Since 2008, 36 Auggies have been awarded a total of $150,000 from the Gilman International Scholarship.

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies or credit-bearing, career-oriented internships abroad. Such international exchange is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

http://www.iie.org/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program

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