…Fund Board, a volunteer advisory board whose mission is to promote private giving for the public good. As part of this, Trettin has chaired a grant writing workshop for local non-profits and chaired the grant awards committee for the last five years. Before her role as presidential spouse, Trettin was…
…strong passion for Northland College and for those she serves,” and was selected to speak at commencement. Majoring in business and sustainable community development, “she has worked tirelessly to represent students and the College in positive and meaningful ways. Liz quietly inspires those she associates with and those she works…
…to all who made it happen and to those who work protecting these special places. Let our generation’s birthday present be in saving the living wilderness, a gift that keeps on giving, growing in value to the benefit of generations to come. Mark R. Peterson is executive director of the…
…News & World Report uses such factors as classes with fewer than 20 students (70 percent at Northland College) and student-faculty ratio (11:1). Assessments by high school guidance counselors, freshman retention rates, the percentage of alumni giving and acceptance rates also are among the data included in the methodology. This…
…a zoologist and persuading the Belize government to establish the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary and Jaguar Preserve. “Rabinowitz’s work carries Olson’s legacy through giving a voice to the wildness within and outside of each of us,” said SONWA selection committee member Eileen Van Pernis. The SONWA committees also recognized Margarita…
…giving public presentations, communicating and organizing volunteers, educating the public about our loons, monitoring loons, and filling out data forms. I interviewed and accepted the position beginning in February. Now I can look back at what I have done. I presented at LoonWatch events like the Trout Unlimited Expo, lake…
…population in check. In giving testimony, Johnson listed trillium—a popular and showy white-to-pink flower that appears in the Wisconsin woods in early summer – as one of the impacted understory species. She said a hunter testified after her, stating that he had lots of trillium in his woods. “I have…
…so by her undergraduate studies in biology, as well as botany, hydrology, chemistry, and ecology. What makes her sculptures so unusual are the manmade touches like buttons, zippers, and screws within organic forms, “alluding to man’s manipulation of nature.” Q. As a biology major, how did you get introduced to…
