Northland Upgrades Locker Rooms Northland College completed a comprehensive remodel of three locker rooms and upgraded the public restrooms in Kendrigan Center. The $125,000 project fills a much-needed gap for students and athletes, said Interim Athletic Director Seamus Gregory. Funded by gifts to the athletic program, the renovation was a project that was well overdue.…
For the higher education business model to change, faculty need to be key partners in this effort. We have learned from this crisis that faculty, who have often been characterized as slow and loathe to change, can be extraordinarily nimble and creative. Beyond moving all of their courses online in less than two weeks, many…
How do we keep connecting with youth, especially at this time of physical distancing, when connection is most important? That is the difficult question we faced in mid-March and continue to face. The pandemic is impacting thousands of communities, human and non-human alike, helping people, comfortably or not, embody the understanding of interdependence and connectedness…
Ryan Rawlings grew up playing basketball outside his house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Bowie, Maryland. “Since I could walk, I had a basketball in my hand,” Ryan, a first-year transfer, is studying sociology and social justice and playing basketball. Not a huge surprise considering his dad Bryan Rawlings ‘79 played basketball at…
Right now, in a typical year, you’d be as likely to find Northland College professors finalizing camping reservations and route plans as you would be to find them grading term papers and final exams. That’s because, as the winter semester transitions into the month of May, Northland students and faculty immerse themselves in a condensed,…
The typical May term course at Northland College, set to begin April 27, promotes field-based, experiential, and immersive learning, as a way to focus on a particular topic, skill, or region. However, nothing is typical about this year and faculty pivoted—quickly. Northland announced a new course last week created specifically for these times—Pandemic! Northland Unites:…
Seniors and hockey captains Amanda Aboundader of Montreal, Quebec, and Ty Kraus of East St. Paul, Manitoba, were featured on the cover of the spring edition of the Northland College magazine. Amanda is majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry. She will be playing for the National Lebanese Women’s Ice Hockey team and attending…
Last summer, students Adrian Bethel and recent graduate Lauren Sloyer ’19 battled mobs of mosquitoes and black flies, scouring the Apostle Islands for a rare broad-leaved twayblade orchid named Neottia convallaroidies. The western orchid is listed as threatened in Wisconsin, the eastern edge of its range, and likely extinct in Minnesota. Assistant Professor of Natural…
Aaron and Sarah Houle of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, grew up around basketball—their dad was a coach for fifteen years—so they knew they would likely pursue basketball. They just didn’t know they would be playing at the same college. Aaron, a senior, is studying elementary education with a minor in social studies and sports management. He…
Research Associate Dr. Toben Lafrancois was shooting underwater photographs during a National Park Service resource inspection near Sand Island on Lake Superior in the summer of 2015 when the team noticed something attached to the bottom of a sunken steamboat. As Lafrancois picked it up, he and the team suspected they had found the first…
