…acquire additional skills, and gain work and research experience through volunteering, internships, study-abroad opportunities, and employment in the Center for Rural Communities. The SCD major’s disciplinary range makes it attractive to employers in a variety of sectors. Past graduates have found immediate employment in governmental services, environmental consulting, urban and…
Study abroad programs offer students an opportunity to explore and extend your learning beyond the classroom and beyond our borders allowing personal enrichment as well as career enhancement in all fields of study. You can explore your field of interest through research and professional development opportunities or academic coursework around…
…Northland College. Work study is an opportunity for students to earn money through part-time on- (and sometimes off-) campus jobs. Note: the dollar amounts you’re eligible for in work-study is not applied directly toward tuition nor is it disbursed to you directly in a lump sum. Instead, you must secure…
…Park Service and Friends of the Apostle Islands. Taking Medicine to the Woods Student Erick Marchessault conducted research on tick-born illnesses at the Mabel Cora Maxwell Nature Study Area, an outdoor classroom for faculty and students for research and stewardship work. Read more» Saving Martens Students and researchers are working…
…similar Northland was to Conserve, and that’s what lead me to apply. Q. What’s next for you? A. This summer I am working for the City of Ashland as their first sustainability intern in the Planning and Development department. I will also be continuing my work at the Center for…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded the Northland College Center for Rural Communities (CRC) nearly $310,000 for a four-year research project focused on how to strengthen the community food system in Ashland and Bayfield counties. “The goal of this study is to…
…dollar amount you’re eligible for in work-study is not applied directly toward tuition nor is it disbursed to you directly in a lump sum. Instead, you must secure a work-study-eligible job and then work enough hours to earn that amount. Visit the Students and Employment page of the U.S. Citizenship…
…the work. Koski is already looking to turn this project into a work-study position after he finishes next summer. “After I’m gone I trust that people will be committed working on this project,” he said. “Future students will have to care and I know those students will be at Northland.”…
By Sean Devlin, ’15 Jesse DiLillo didn’t come to Northland College to be a sustainable entrepreneurship major, and he certainly never expected to take on the role of goaltender for men’s soccer. He was coming to play goaltender for the LumberJack ice hockey team and to study business. “I have…
…a time when people in the industry didn’t understand why sustainability mattered.” She spent the next fifteen years of her life developing and implementing sustainable seafood production practices nationwide. At Northland, Smith held a summer internship at Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission working on mercury and fish consumption…
