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NSF Award Funds Sustainable Plastics Research

NC Receives $364,361 National Science Foundation Award

March 17, 2017

Northland College has received its first National Science Foundation award for research purposes. The $364,361 award will, in part, support Associate Professor of Chemistry Nick Robertson’s student-intensive research on the synthesis and chemical recycling of plastics. “The grant allows us to significantly build on what we’ve started—to provide students with…

Northland College faculty eat at outdoor buffet

USDA awards CRC funding to study regional food system   

May 17, 2017

…in 2015 as a way to provide research-based solutions to social and economic challenges, partners with community members to build on local knowledge, and promotes the long-term health and vitality of rural communities in the north woods region. Kemkes and her research team, which will include undergraduate research assistants, CRC…

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Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife

August 17, 2015

…Award for Undergraduate Research, awarded to a student who has excelled in research in the field of natural resources. He researched recent declines of the gray jay in northern Wisconsin. Using citizen science data from an annual population survey called the Christmas Bird Count he analyzed and tracked relative gray…