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Review: A Boy and a Jaguar

SONWA 2015 Children’s Book Award Winner By Eileen Van Pernis, SONWA Children’s Book Committee The Children’s Book Committee of the Sigurd F. Olson Award (SONWA) is proud to announce the 2015 winner, Alan Rabinowitz, author of A Boy and a Jaguar, about a stuttering boy and a caged animal. A…

Q & A With Robin Wall Kimmerer

Student Commencement Speaker Stephanie Muise Interviews 2015 Keynote Speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer Stephanie: When did you begin to have your interest in science? Botany? Robin: I think that I was born a botanist that the plants must have tapped me on the shoulder at an early age, because I cannot…

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WPR: New ‘Freshwater Innovation Center’ Aims To Expand Great Lakes Research

$10M Endowment Comes From Family Foundation With Environmentalist Ties To The Area By Danielle Kaeding, WPR Northland College in Ashland has received a $10 million endowment that will support a freshwater innovation center on campus to conduct research on issues facing the Great Lakes. The Forest Lodge property will be…

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Lacrosse 101

Q&A with Matthew Hoszko From: St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada Majors: Business Management, Sustainable Entrepreneurship Activities: Vice President of Student Athletic Council, Public Relations Coordinator of WRNC 97.7FM Q. How did you discover lacrosse? A. Lacrosse was a major part of growing up in Canada. It was always hockey in the…

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From Pop Bottles to Pharmaceuticals

By John Myers, Duluth News Tribune What if we could turn millions of plastic pop bottles back into chemicals, and then reuse those chemicals in things such as pharmaceuticals or cosmetics? Turns out that’s exactly what students at two Wisconsin schools have shown can be done. Research teams of undergraduate…

Stroud Selected to Give Last Lecture

Northland College students have chosen Angela Stroud, assistant professor of sociology and social justice, to provide the last lecture of the school year and the last lecture seniors will hear before graduation. Sponsored by the Northland College Student Association in cooperation with the College’s commencement committee, Stroud will present “Learning…

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Braiding Sweetgrass 2013 SONWA Winner

The Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College announced today that Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is the winner of its nature writing award. Kimmerer will receive a $1,000 cash prize and an invitation to visit Northland College next fall for…

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Tribal Lacrosse

Q&A with Cassie Brown Major: outdoor education. Summer plans: Running a couple of Northland’s summer camps and leading backpacking and kayaking trips for a Girl Scout camp in Michigan. After that: Teaching Ojibwe language in Bayfield. Q. How did you get interested in lacrosse? A. I became interested in lacrosse…

Northland Announces 2015 Commencement Speaker


Robin Wall Kimmerer selected Award-winning author Robin Wall Kimmerer has been selected to deliver the commencement speech to Northland College graduates on Saturday, May 23. She will also receive an honorary degree as a Doctor of Humane Letters. It is an honor to welcome Robin Wall Kimmerer back to campus…