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Northland College graduate Olivia Anderson runs tests at the Burke Center lab

Summer Ideal Time for Gaining Professional Experience

Olivia Anderson, 2018 Graduate

Major: sustainable community development with physical planning and development emphasis, and natural resources with ecological restoration emphasis Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota Future Plans: sustainable design Q. What are you up…  Read More

Exploring Interactions Between Humans and Wildlife

Andrew East `10 Uses Northland Lessons for Science & Teaching

Then:  Andrew East graduated in 2010 with a degree in natural resources. For his capstone, he surveyed small mammals to determine the prey availability and dynamics for northern shrikes in…  Read More

Northland College graduation cap decorated with solar panels

A Future in Solar

Loucks ’18 to hold first paid sustainability internship for City of Ashland

Name: Laura Loucks ’18 Major: Sustainable Community Development Hometown: Eagle, Wisconsin Q. How did you find Northland? A. My path to Northland started in middle school, where I learned about…  Read More

Northland College alum Alex Alvarez

Climate Change and the Risk for Mass Violence

Alex Alvarez '85 leads the Genocide Resource Project

Alex Alvarez ’85 majored in sociology and outdoor education at Northland College and went on to pursue sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is a professor at Northern…  Read More

Northland College alum Dan Norris at the Bridgeton Landfill site in St. Louis

Monitoring Atomic City

Environmental Specialist Dan Norris '05 on Bridgeton Landfill

As an environmental specialist with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources 2007 to 2014, Dan Norris ’05 directed over $1 million of long-term air sampling of the Bridgeton Landfill in…  Read More

Northland College alum Terry Daulton's painting of Crystal Bog

On Merging Art and Science

How One Class Changed My Life

In ninth grade, we were assigned a career research project. I picked wildlife biologist. When Northland College sent a brochure with students paddling a wild river, I was hooked. At…  Read More

Northland College alum Mitzi Peine paddling a canoe

From the Yukon to Cuba and Back

Mitzi Peine '14

Calling themselves the Paddlin Madelines, high school camp friends Mitzi Peine ‘14 and Emma Burgeson made up the first all-women canoe team in 2014 to attempt the Yukon 1000, the world’s longest…  Read More

Northland College alum Jon McLaughlin whitewater rafting for Team USA

Whitewater Rafting for the USA

John McLaughlin '01

Jon McLaughlin ‘01 joined the USA Men’s Whitewater Raft Team-Masters Division in July 2017 and in October placed eighth in the 2017 IRF World Whitewater Rafting Championships in Japan. The…  Read More