Are you ready for some friendly competition? It’s time for the ultimate showdown: students vs. staff and faculty in a thrilling basketball game! Everyone is welcome—so even if you’re not playing, come watch and cheer on your team! Cotton candy and other snacks will be provided. This isn’t just a…
Please join the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation for our 2025 Marvin Pertzik World Water Day Program. We will be screening special excerpts from two Lake Superior documentaries exploring the legacy of Lake Superior and its estuaries in a time of significant change, including never before seen footage…
…this next chapter of our lives, I think we may again have to be patient as we grow into our new communities. It takes time. But also, I think as many of us know, we don’t’ just find community. It isn’t just sitting there waiting to be discovered. Community is…
…are located roughly thirty miles from where we stand. The wind has picked up and the National Park Service boat may not be able to get to them tonight. “I tell them to pack extra clothes and food, just in case,” she says. Johnson is one of the hardest-working professors…
…pounds of ready-to-use compost, often referred to by gardeners as “black gold” because of it’s many advantages in gardening. But an unexpected problem arose when the composter was installed: it is just too effective, having a capacity for far more food scraps than even the most finicky student-diners at the…
…successful careers. Founded in 1892, Northland College is located at the tip of Wisconsin, on the south shore of Lake Superior. Adjacent to the Apostle Islands and nearly a million acres of national forest, Northland has an unparalleled living laboratory and natural playground just beyond our doors. The Nitty-Gritty…
…as documented in a letter from his congressman. This letter directed the Army, at Tom’s request, to change his destination from the comfort of Europe to the conflict in Southeast Asia. August 24, 1967 Dear PFC Dean: I’d like to advise you of a verbal report I’ve just received from…
…what she wants to do with her doctorate degree, however McPeak sees herself moving back to the Midwest. “I know I want to learn something new everyday,” McPeak said. “I don’t want to just work at a desk, I don’t want to just work in a lab, and I don’t…
…with asthma to a Junior Olympic swimmer. During the summer before my freshman year of high school, I played water polo just for fun. I liked it, but it was only a summer activity. Freshman year began and I was introduced to Jim Vance, the coach of the triathlon team…
New-Student Convocation Address 2016 By Alan Brew, associate professor of English It is wonderful to be here with you this afternoon, under a tent, old friends and new, just a short walk from the largest body of fresh water in the world. I’m going to begin today by sharing parts…
