Xcel Energy has a history of supporting environmental initiatives at Northland College, and the upcoming academic year will be no different. On August 9, 2023, two Xcel Energy representatives—Social Investments Representative Jennifer Prochnow and Community Services Manager—Northern Wisconsin & Upper Peninsula Ken Disher—stopped by the College to present President Chad Dayton and Director of Grants…
Northland College Athletics is thrilled to announce the launch of men’s and women’s wrestling programs. “We’re in a state of growth as a department,” said Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Dan Schumacher. “This is an exciting time for Northland College Athletics.” The sport of wrestling…
The Lake Namekagon system in northwestern Wisconsin is set to receive long-term, real-time data thanks to a new monitoring project by the Northland College Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. The initiative will support scientific research, and real-time data will also be available to…
I’ve lived my whole life in Wisconsin. It’s a great place to be from, for sure! Right before my last semester at Northland, however, I decided I wanted to live somewhere completely different. I landed on a plan to move to Oregon, primarily because of…
Lynn Rued’s Northland story starts at a classic north woods fall pot-luck—the kind where you bring your lawn chair and a dish to share and sit around talking and eating and charring marshmallows until the embers die. “I was standing there talking with my mom…
Just a few weeks after Commencement, Cameron Jaeger and Liam Jansen are already putting skills they learned at Northland to work—on a national stage. The two 2023 outdoor education grads just won gold in the men’s tandem event at the 2023 North American Whitewater Open…
My first semester teaching at Northland was not quite what I expected. Transitioning to Northland from the University of Georgia, a much larger school with lecture-hall-sized general education requirements, I was looking forward to smaller classroom environments where I could engage in fruitful discussions about…
Scholarship power | August 17, 2023 | Ashland Daily Press
Xcel Energy representatives Jennifer Prochnow, social investments representative, and Ken Disher, community services manager-northern Wisconsin & Upper Peninsula, were at Northland College Aug. 9, to present President Chad Dayton and Lisa Williamson, director of grants and sponsored awards, with an $11,000 grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation.
The joys of gas-free driving | April 3, 2023 | Megan Salmon-Tumas, assistant professor of climate science, shares her experience switching to an electric vehicle and discusses the environmental and financial benefits of gas-free driving.
Chemistry in Pictures: Slimy yet sustainable | October 19, 2022 | Chemical & Engineering News
Northland College undergraduate students synthesized knotty goo as a part of research into chelating polymers that could play a role in environmental cleanup in the future.
Northland inducts 6 into HOF | August 28, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
Northland College is inducting six new members into its Hall of Fame on September 24, at 9:00 a.m., in conjunction with Fall Festival weekend (September 21—24).
Northland athletes playing it smart | August 22, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
Athletes from Northland College’s 2021–2022 baseball and hockey teams are recognized for academic honors by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Northland soccer: Converting potential to production | August 14, 2022 | Ashland Daily Press
The Northland College women’s soccer team head coach Dan Dubois is excited to start the new soccer season strong. The amount of new talent coming onto the team, combined with the perseverance and potential that the returning players have already shown, give us high aspirations for the team this upcoming season.
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