{"id":4644,"date":"2015-04-06T21:03:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2016-02-16T20:20:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:20:23","slug":"give-to-the-max-day-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2015\/04\/06\/give-to-the-max-day-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Give to the Max Day impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4728\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/130530-Give-To-The-Max.jpg\" alt=\"Give to the Max\" width=\"300\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/130530-Give-To-The-Max.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/130530-Give-To-The-Max-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>More than 1,300 donors gave Augsburg College more than $430,000 on Give to the Max Day 2014. For the second year in a row, Augsburg surpassed every other Minnesota college or university in this annual online fundraising event. The achievement reflects the work of alumni, faculty, and staff who championed nearly three dozen unique projects.<\/p>\n<h3>In the classroom<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>$1,605 was raised to help students purchase essential\u2014but sometimes pricey\u2014textbooks for class.<\/li>\n<li>The College launched its first student-run publishing organization, Howling Bird, which is part of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.<\/li>\n<li>The Communication Studies Department purchased a drone camera that takes student filmmakers\u2019 work to new heights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>On-campus research<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Biology students will benefit from the opportunity to fund additional DNA sequencing critical to their research.<\/li>\n<li>Faculty in the Department of History will further their research on topics ranging from the deathbed conversions of medieval knights to Minnesota after the Civil War to women\u2019s medicine in the Victorian era.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Auggies on the move<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Augsburg College women\u2019s hockey team traveled to four European countries, playing games against international opponents, and touring historic and cultural sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,300 donors gave Augsburg College more than $430,000 on Give to the Max Day 2014. For the second year in a row, Augsburg surpassed every other Minnesota college or university in this annual online fundraising event. The achievement reflects the work of alumni, faculty, and staff who championed nearly three dozen unique projects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,29],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-it-takes-an-auggie","tag-spring-2015"],"wps_subtitle":"Augsburg\u2019s day of record-breaking fundraising supports new opportunities","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6449,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/6449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}