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Northland College alum Jon McLaughlin whitewater rafting for Team USA

Whitewater Rafting for the USA

John McLaughlin '01

…have happened without the recommendation and connection from Grant Herman ’76 (former Northland OE Professor).” McLaughlin worked as a kayaking, rafting, canyoneering, and backpacking field instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School and marketing director for Sawyer Paddles and Oars. Living in Ashland, Oregon, he started Therapeutics in Motion, a…

Wheeler Hall 2016

Stolid Wheeler Hall

…on the second, and the third floor acted as a gymnasium. Reverend E.P. Wheeler, the pastor of the Ashland Congregational Church, which had founded the North Wisconsin Academy, became the College’s first president. His parents, Reverend Leonard Wheeler and his wife, Harriet, were missionaries to the Ojibwe on Madeline Island…

Fish Creek flowing into Chequamegon Bay

Waterway Near Proposed CAFO Has High Phosphorus Levels

DNR Plans To Add Creek To Impaired Waters List

Researchers in Ashland are seeing higher amounts of phosphorus in waters near Lake Superior. They say levels exceed state water quality standards in a creek that’s downstream from where a large hog farm may be built. Randy Lehr with the Center for Freshwater Innovation at Northland College said they’ve been…

Northland alum fish geneticist holds up fish

Ackerman Brothers Pursue Fish Biology, Genetics

…made the decision to “go north,” everything felt right. In 1995, Nick couldn’t wait to see the Northland College campus for the first time. During that first commute from Pecatonica to Ashland his mother “forced” him to speed nine miles over the speed limit. Outside of Menomonie, Nick was pulled…

Lake Superior near Madeline Island

Researchers Monitoring Wildlife On Madeline Island

RESEARCHERS HOPE LAKE SUPERIOR’S APOSTLE ISLANDS PROVIDE KEY TO QUESTIONS ABOUT WILDLIFE ECOLOGY SYSTEMS

…resources professor at Northland College in Ashland. Olson, along with 10 undergraduate students, scouted out open areas with low human traffic in the Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve and the Big Bay State Park to place the cameras, some of which included a scent to lure the more elusive species, like…

Northland College student plays golf.

Gilligan Personifies "Student-Athlete"

…emphasis in fisheries and wildlife and a minor in chemistry—has taken full advantage of every opportunity she’s had at the institution tucked away in Ashland, Wisconsin, to develop into leader who is prepared to make a difference in the environment and the world. “Northland has given me opportunities no other…

WPR Hear Me Out: Stroud on Gun Violence

Angela Stroud, assistant professor of sociology and social justice at Northland College in Ashland, will speak with us about her newly released book Good Guys With Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry. We’ll talk about why people choose to arm themselves after mass shootings like the one in…

Joe Fitzgerald and Randy Lehr drive boat to islands

Fitzgerald: From Plankton Guy to Water Resources Policy Economist

…this spring, Fitzgerald plans to spend the summer writing up his findings, which he presented along with Jordan Welnetz, another of Lehr’s Sea Grant-funded students, last month at the second annual Chequamegon Bay Research Symposium in Ashland, Wis. The duo sampled plankton and other factors from eleven sites in the…