…A week later, a straight line wind event ripped through Ashland overnight. “Surveying the damage walking through campus the next day, was something I’ll never forget,” she said. Duarte planned on going into broadcast meteorology but her career took a different direction. Instead, she is a software engineer for the…
…and pointed her finger right at Northland College. Then, she convinced her best friend Beverly Harris ’72 to join her. Together, in the fall of 1968, the two African-American women and their mothers rode the bus thirty-three hours from New York City to remote Ashland, Wisconsin. They arrived at midnight…
By Raeanna Marnati, Fox 21 News The University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute announced a $3.9 million grant that will fund 19 Great Lakes research, education and outreach projects, including two projects at Northland College in Ashland. The first Northland College project will be lead by Professor Randy Lehr. The…
…current cost of a beer, not the dime charged at Cabbie’s Tap during the Eisenhower administration. Fond memories of the bar have been pouring into the college from long-ago students, including those under 21 who could legally drink beer back then. The cheap brew washed down countless cheese sandwiches and…
On the evening of July 11, a violent and torrential storm swept through northwest Wisconsin, saturating communities, farms and forests from Lake Superior in Ashland County south approximately 75 miles to the Hayward Lakes area. Twelve hours later, local residents woke to damage from rainfall totals ranging from five to…
A recent study published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessments finds turtles are getting doses of heavy metals such as lead and copper. Matt Cooper is one of the co-authors of this study. He’s a research scientist at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin. Cooper joined us on Stateside to talk about…
…fidelity to the broader evaluation model, and support partners’ efforts to meet project goals. The Northern Wisconsin Health Network consists of two critical access hospitals, Memorial Medical Center and Hayward Area Memorial Hospital, four County Health and Human Services Departments in Ashland, Bayfield, Sawyer and Washburn counties, and NorthLakes Community…
$10M Endowment Comes From Family Foundation With Environmentalist Ties To The Area By Danielle Kaeding, WPR Northland College in Ashland has received a $10 million endowment that will support a freshwater innovation center on campus to conduct research on issues facing the Great Lakes. The Forest Lodge property will be…
…Ashland. Drawn to Northland for its setting near Lake Superior and the Apostle Islands and for its emphasis on the outdoors, experiential learning, and a forestry program, she applied. Now in her junior year, Meyer is double majoring in natural resources with a forestry emphasis and in Native American studies….
