Northland College

Through story and visuals, this presentation will transport you to the forests of Costa Rica, highlighting the challenges, successes, and interesting stories of the ongoing efforts to conserve jaguars and other wildlife there. For eight years, Associate Professor of Natural Resources Erik Olson and his students have been working with the Costa Rican National System…  Read More →

Professor of Environmental History Erica Hannickel has a major passion for orchids. In this talk, she’ll share details of orchid conservation in history and today in Amazonia and Africa. Hannickel’s book on the same theme, Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers, was published last month. Honest Dog Books will have books for…  Read More →

Professor of History Paul Schue will be presenting “The Devil on Our Shoulder, the Synapse in Our Brain: A History of Crime through Three Models of Human Nature.” Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.

The writing and Native American studies programs have invited Halee Kirkwood ’15 to read their poetry at Northland College’s Alvord Theatre on Thursday, March 23, starting at 7 p.m. Halee is a Northland alum from about ten years ago, and they’ve been publishing up a storm and forging great connections in the poetry-writing world ever…  Read More →

Professors Tim Ziegenhagen and Cynthia Belmont will be presenting. Tim will be reading his fiction, and Cynthia will be reading nonfiction from her sabbatical along with talking about her project. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.

Come check out what Northland students have been researching! A brief program will kick off at 2 p.m., followed by open browsing of research posters and informal Q&A with student researchers. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a Campus Connect talk with Bailey Troia, an instructor of sociology at Northland College. Troia will dive into how members of the LGBTQ+ community experience belonging (or how they don’t), sharing insights from her own research. From the Speaker This talk focuses on LGBTQ adults’ experiences of ambivalent belonging across multiple institutions…  Read More →