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Portrait of John Allen

Allen Named Philanthropist of the Year

…President Michael Miller stood at a podium and spoke directly to John’s three adult children. “I want you to know what your father means to Northland. He’s a force. He’s passionate. He gets things done. He’s a leader. His generosity and dedication to this place means the world to everyone…

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Gifts You Bring the World

…feather. I am humbled by your generosity. And Gchi Megwech to the Northland community for honoring me with this degree, I have spent much of my life trying to braid together two strands of knowledge, scientific ways of knowing the earth and the wisdom of indigenous knowledge in how we…

Northland College Bee Friendly Campus

Northland College Becomes First Wisconsin Bee Campus

Working to Promote Native Bees and Pollinators

…Education, receiving a STARS gold rating. Becoming a Bee Campus improves the College’s score even more. Northland College is the 47thcampus nationwide to become a Bee Campus. Bee City USA and Bee Campus USA are initiatives of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon,…

Alumnus Henry Fitzgibbon performs on stage at Northland College

Henry Fitzgibbon ’51 On Broadway

A Life in the Arts

…and later for world-famous Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (salary $65 per month), and attended Hunter College in Manhattan, receiving a master degree in music. In the fall of 1967, after sixteen years in New York City, Fitzgibbon returned to Wisconsin to take a teaching position at Cumberland…

kids make soda bottle structure

A Highway, or Muddy Path, Shall Be There!

…our alumni. However, every day we must remind ourselves of the power that has been given to us through receiving a high quality liberal arts and sciences education, and never forget to pay it forward and pave the way for others. Max Metz graduated from Northland in 2010 with a…

Wolfe Family

Finding My Northland Crowd

GUEST COLUMN BY ALMNUS Mark wolfe ’96, FOR THE ALUMNI ENEWSLETTER Before the Internet, email, smart devices, and Twitter took over the universe, Northland College was a conduit for bringing vastly different worlds together. In summer of 1992, after receiving my K-12 public education within a single school district in…

Northland College alum Stuart Barnes Jamieson

Supporting the Next Generation of Non-Profits and Their Leaders

Stuart Barnes Jamieson '81

…held in Chicago where I live. One of them was receiving a special award for her research there. I invited myself to the conference to hear their presentations and organized an alumni event around this conference. The quality of those students and their work was very impressive and I was…

World Water Day

Dive In: Freshwater Research Opportunities

…Laboratory (ARELab) and often includes: sample receiving and chain of custody management; sample filtration and processing; implementation of Standard Operating Procedures to test for a range of environmental parameters; instrumental analysis; data analysis and reporting. Opportunities to engage the public in natural resource issues will also occur as part of…