Northland College’s Timber Wolf Alliance (TWA) successfully hosted the the 2024 Great Lakes Wolf Symposium on October 15–16, attracting over 150 participants from eleven states, two Canadian provinces, and as far away as the Netherlands. Held every four years, this symposium serves as a major gathering for wildlife experts, conservationists,…
On Earth Day each year, Northland College announces its choices for the best in nature writing for the previous year. Three authors are selected to receive the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) for adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Established in 1991, SONWA honors the literary legacy of…
For fall 2024, the weekly Northland Knit-together meetup will be held on Wednesdays over the lunch hour in the Indigenous Cultures Center lounge (114B Mead Hall). This is an opportunity for interested employees to meet, eat, and craft. Just bring your lunch and supplies. Coffee and tea are available, and…
Worried about the future of democracy? Want to learn more about how social change happens? Join Associate Professor Angela Stroud to discuss how we might move toward justice in the face of urgent threats, including climate change, social inequality, and global conflicts. This event is free and open to the…
Makoons is the author of Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (hardcover 2009, paperback 2023) and the editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (2015, written by her mother Mary Siisip Geniusz). Her mother’s Cree and Métis family…
Join us this Fall Term for our Beading Circle! What should you expect? Why should you attend? Be creative Learn something new Meet new people No experience needed Materials are provided or you can bring your own project This event is open to current Northland College students, faculty, and staff…
Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. Tree canopies currently represent a “new” frontier in ecology. Associate professors Jon Martin and Erik Olson of Northland College will present the lessons they have learned over ten years spent studying the canopy of old, large white pines in northern Wisconsin and how their…
This presentation by Dr. Kyle Bladow will share his work on the place-based poetry of 19th-century Ojibwe poet and author Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, research he is pursuing as the 2024–2027 Hulings Distinguished Chair in the Humanities. (You’re invited to bring your lunch!) This event is free and open to the…
