‘University Place’: Rapid Changes in Wolf Policy Only Heat Up the Conflict By Scott Gordon, Wiscontext For Erik Olson, an assistant professor of natural resources at Northland College in Ashland, the biggest weakness in Wisconsin’s policy toward wolves hasn’t been any one particular policy decision. Rather, he asserted in an…
…Northland, and the fall out of the 2008 financial crisis. TRAVIS: How did you decide to attend Northland College? What factors influenced your decision? HELEN: I chose Northland for a few different reasons. I really loved the small college population, the student-to-staff ratio, and the rural character of Ashland. I…
…your formal learning will occur in classes, but we live in communities and now is the time to deepen your understanding of how these communities work as well as your understanding of the places and roles you will occupy within them. Your dorms, the Northland campus, Ashland, are all communities…
…the three shoved off in kayaks from the shores of Ashland, paddled to Waverly Beach, and continued on to paddle the entire shoreline for the next two months. “It was an adventure, like none other,” Karl laughed. They had days of seven-foot following seas, harrowing waves at Pictured Rocks, and…
…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…
…justice at Northland College in Ashland, said mass shootings like Orlando feed fears that people are “sitting ducks” if they’re unarmed. Stroud is author of “Good Guys with Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry.” “This has become the answer to gun violence that we just need more people…
Three Northland College alum packed their baby Burley buggy and departed from Ashland Friday, May 20, heading west on a quest to run around Lake Superior. Monday, August 15, Evan Flom ’14, Allissa Stutte ’13, and Andy Butter ’14 returned from the east, running along the Lake Superior shoreline for…
…students working with Nick Robertson, assistant professor of chemistry from Northland College in Ashland, and Michael Carney, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, developed a method for turning used plastic into useful molecules for high-value products. Their work appears in the March issue of the prestigious journal Chemical…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded the Northland College Center for Rural Communities (CRC) nearly $310,000 for a four-year research project focused on how to strengthen the community food system in Ashland and Bayfield counties. “The goal of this study is to…
