Dr. Jodi Enos-Berlage

   Jodi Enos-Berlage has served as a professor in the Luther College Biology Department for over 20 years, with primary areas in microbiology, immunology, and introductory cell biology. Her 10+ years of student-centered research on water quality in Northeast Iowa has resulted in the Dry Run Creek Watershed being one of the most monitored watersheds of its size in the state. More recently, her teaching and research has integrated student-sourcing antibiotic discovery from microbes in Northeast Iowa soils. In the last 5 years, Dr. Enos-Berlage has also focused attention on student career and life design development, having co-developed, launched, and implemented a new high impact, immersion internship program in Rochester, MN and served a three-year term as Associate Dean for Integrating Academic and Career Development, partnering with Luther’s Career Center Director to lead career and life design efforts on campus. 

Dr. Enos-Berlage grew up and was actively involved in her family’s Northwest Illinois cow-calf beef and crop farm and currently owns and operates a direct sale beef and hog farm outside of Ridgeway, IA with husband John and family. She finds peace in flowing water, energy from walking in the wild, and joy in dancing and storytelling. Her most treasured moments have been reading out loud to her children after dinner for over two decades. People who know her well describe her as a “relentless advocate for positive change”.