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Wolf Awareness Week 2020 Winning Poster Art by Deborah LaFogg Docherty

Wolf Awareness Week and Poster

To commemorate Wolf Awareness Week, TWA creates an annual poster featuring an award-winning artist’s rendering of a wolf or wolves in their natural habitat….

WritersRead artwork

Writers to Share Their Encounters on Stage

With Northland Students, Staff, Faculty, and Alumni

Our lives are made up of encounters. Most are the everyday, unremarkable interactions making up a life. Other encounters are momentous, life-changing. Regional writers will share encounters large and small in the ninth annual Writers Read, this year’s theme being Encounters. At 7 p.m Friday, January 25 in the Alvord…

Alumnus Henry Fitzgibbon performs on stage at Northland College

Henry Fitzgibbon ’51 On Broadway

A Life in the Arts

…principal made it possible,” he said. In his off-hours, he maintained a private voice studio, giving private lessons at a music store in downtown LaCrosse. One of his voice students went on to appear in Broadway musicals. Fitzgibbon retired in 1989 and now lives in Florida. Asked if he has…

Professor Joel Glickman conducts an orchestra.

Forty Years Conducting

…“I try to teach new courses so it gives me the opportunity to learn,too,” he said. When Glickman is not in the classroom, conducting, directing or giving personal studio lessons, he is creating his own work. “Being a conductor, I am part of trying to make music come to life….

Robin Wall Kimmerer at commencement

“We can’t just change light bulbs, we have to change hearts”

…one of us, showered with daily gifts of the earth,” she said, pointing out that both commencement speakers were Native American women scientists. “Together we can be proud of this wonderful institution dedicated to liberal arts in service and sustainability, educating for the world we need and most importantly for…

Chaplain David Saetre at podium

“Nature Boy” Saetre Called Back for Encore

…last lecture of their undergraduate careers. This year they chose Saetre, naming his brilliant oratory skills. “Seeing as this is the first year in a while that David won’t be giving an address to the senior class, I (very selfishly) would love to hear whatever he wants to contribute in…

Film class and wild rice parching

Filmmaker, Students Document Harvest

…said Moore. “I felt it represented the biggest issues of our day. What I saw was about extraction and contamination, but also about resilience and envisioning. It wasn’t just a resistance camp, it was about exploring new ideas of economy and giving people a space to be in touch with…

Great Lakes map

Buffalo News Editorial: Battle is brewing

…than five years of waiting and wondering, Waukesha has met all the compact’s fine print? We’ll have to wait a few more months to find out. But if history is any guide, the state of New York will be giving the Waukesha water diversion application a very, very close read….

Northland College student Hattie Hoffman plays guitar

In Pursuit of Biology, Music, & Environmental Justice

Name: Hattie Hoffman Majors: biology with a music minor Keeps busy with ECCO Haus, the Sustainability Department, REuse Room, and NCAA softball It’s not always easy to merge two distinct halves of a whole brain. Sophomore Hattie Hoffman grew up surrounded by music, harnessing intuition and creativity through instruments from…