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Will Waukesha Get a Rewrite?

PETER ANNIN, Journal Sentinel In 1998, an Ontario consulting firm known as the Nova Group announced a controversial plan to ship 158 million gallons of azure Lake Superior water to Asia. The idea: create a global market for pristine Great Lakes water. To regional governors and premiers — who had…

Annin Judges Our Waters, Our Future Writing Contest

…important water is becoming on a regional, national and international level,” says Annin, who is also the co-director of the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College. The contest seeks short stories that are solutions-oriented and, while fictional, are also scientifically plausible. Stories should take place in…

Northland College student plays golf.

Gilligan Personifies "Student-Athlete"

…student-athlete at the College, Gilligan is part of a small, vibrant community that has shown strong support for athletics as the programs continue to grow and find success on and off the field of play. Gilligan has participated and contributed to a women’s golf team that showed dramatic improvement at…

Northland College student Gretchen Hamernik-Winters dogsledding as part of internship.

Working with Animals

…the basic commands (gee=right; haw=left; on by=keep going straight), then clipped into cross-country skis for the first time ever and hooked herself to a dog, called skijoring. “That is a ‘can do’ attitude,” Gorman said. Over the next four months, Gretchen learned general dog care, equipment, grooming, and eventually she…

Northland College senior at powwow

Powwow to Spotlight Proclamation, New Dances

…and honor given to gender-fluid Two-Spirit People, an ancient theme seen in different Indigenous cultures across the continent. As its name implies, the Switch Dance has both genders trade movements, a challenge when Men’s and Women’s traditional dancing are particularly distinct. The Switch Dance also serves to highlight the historic…

Aerial shot of Ashland and Chequamegon Bay

Rural America: A Living Laboratory

Center for Rural Communities Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide

…of the location as it develops its focus on place-based learning. First, in 2010, developing one of the first sustainable community development undergraduate programs in the country then, in 2015, creating the Center for Rural Communities with a polling laboratory to provide science and guidance to rural cities, agencies, and…

Bubbles

Kraft to Speak on Wisconsin Groundwater Issues

…He is actively involved in the local community, coaching high-school cross-country skiing and serving as an officer for the Tomorrow River Scholarship Foundation. Other non-work interests include gardening, backpacking, and aerobic sports, especially cross-country ski racing. He has completed twenty-five Birkebeiner ski races and finishes near the front of the…

Professor Erica Hannickel sits at counter with glass of wine.

How Wine Shaped a Nation

Q&A WITH PROFESSOR ERICA HANNICKEL

…A. I came to grapes through an interest in 19th-century gardening and agriculture in general. These topics spoke so interestingly about country-to-city transitions for Americans, as well as what they were thinking about in regards to nature and culture. I soon found that the environmental impact of vineyards hasn’t been…

Sigurd Olson leaning on tree

12 Personal Items of Sigurd Olson

At the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

…near its borders in Ely, writing about it in magazine articles and his celebrated collections of essays, and advocating for its protection on numerous occasions. This collection of his personal items, housed at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, signifies his connection and affection for the border country he held so…