By Kory Kaczur, KBJR NEWS Madeline Island, WI—Out of the 32,000 islands on the Great Lakes, only 17 are home to year-round and seasonal residents. Spread throughout those inhabited islands, there are nearly 8,000 residents year round and an extra 10,000 seasonal residents. Those people can tell you there are…
Northland College junior Max Beal is the first recipient of the Parker Matzinger Internships of Impact Award. Beal was awarded $2,000 for a six-week internship managing and conducting camera trap research on terrestrial wildlife in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. Parker Matzinger was a 2016 graduate of Northland College who double-majored…
…yew in the Apostle Islands, comparing it to baseline data collected in the 1990s. Her surveys show a dramatic decline on islands that have recently had deer. “In short, Canada yew and deer are not compatible,” she says. Not only is there a rate of decline but the plant does…
Sailing, Art, and the Apostle Islands is for participants 14-17 years of age interested in learning to sail, living aboard a tall ship for five days and broadening their perspective of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore through creative exploration and action. How does art influence stewardship of a place? Does…
…as well as the president of Northland College 1971-1987. This student internship, named the Wendy & Malcolm McLean Internship, will start in summer 2015 with one Northland College student working a minimum of 10 weeks at CTI headquarters in St. Paul, plus one week in a developing country. Founded in…
…I didn’t want to just have a degree on paper. I wanted to be able to go out and be able to apply what I’ve learned.” Application of classroom concepts and hands-on experiential learning has defined Gilligan’s college experience—during her time she’s participated in three distinctly different internship experiences that…
Come learn about jobs and internships available with two area employers! The Northwest Wisconsin Lung Health Alliance and Bayfield Winery and Blue Ox Cider will both be in the Ponzio Campus Center promoting their positions. Can’t make it? No worries! Reach out to either of these employers directly to learn…
…water Campus is located blocks from Lake Superior, the largest, freshwater lake in the world, and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, consisting of 21 islands and shoreline at the northern tip of Wisconsin. You can explore the shoreline or the islands in a variety of ways. Depending on where, how…
