The Class of 2019
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Nuts for HazelnutsNuts for Hazelnuts
Northland College is experiencing a hazelnut invasion. There are three-hundred seedlings in the CSE Greenhouse, a hazelnut processor and cracker in the Hulings Rice Food Center, and last semester business students tackled hazelnut product development and marketing in the classroom and in the Larson Food…
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Tracking Peccaries, PrimatesTracking Peccaries, Primates
For five weeks, Jennifer Franke hiked the pathways of a Costa Rican park, checking trail cams and looking for signs of wildlife. She slept at ranger stations, awoken each morning by the noisy chorus of howler monkey troupes. “Alpha males making their roaring vocal displays,”…
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Northland Ranks High for Outdoor EnthusiastsNorthland Ranks High for Outdoor Enthusiasts
Great Value Colleges organization has named Northland College fourteenth on its list of 50 Great Affordable Colleges for Outdoor Enthusiasts. The reasons for the ranking are plentiful. Northland College has a vibrant outdoor education major, a forty-four-year-old outdoor orientation program for incoming students, a gear…
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Pink ExplosionPink Explosion
The four-person, pink squirrel research team knew they were onto something when their article was published in the Journal of Mammalogy and the media requests started rolling in. “That’s when the excitement started,” said Allie Kohler ’18, lead author on the project and now a…
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Clouds and Climate ChangeClouds and Climate Change
Oceans cover about seventy percent of the Earth surface and so sea-air interactions play a key role in the atmospheric system. In particular, oceans are a reservoir of sea spray aerosols—the most widely distributed natural aerosols Climatologists consider the role of clouds together with aerosols…
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Digitizing the Past for the FutureDigitizing the Past for the Future
On a Thursday night in the CSE, you will likely see students pacing around a room full of plant specimens as they mutter Latin names under their breath. These BIO 328 students are studying for professor Sarah Johnson’s weekly plant identification quiz, and the specimens…