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Northland College graduation cap decorated with solar panels

A Future in Solar

Loucks '18 to hold first paid sustainability internship for City of Ashland

…during my time at Northland is that I didn’t take advantage of the absolute wealth of knowledge of the faculty and staff in this place. Talk to your teachers after class. Develop relationships with them. Volunteer for their projects. Ask them to edit papers and for career advice. Talk to…

books on shelf

Madeline Jarvis Is Creating the Friendliest Library in the World.

…nice to work towards a tangible goal.” wedding planning tidbit: “It seems like as soon as you tell people you’re engaged, you have to start planning. When we were still celebrating, people would constantly ask ‘when?’ ‘where?’ ‘what are your colors?’…We were like…I DON’T KNOW! Wedding colors???” What do you…

Northland College alum Kinsey Neal standing in Lake Superior

Be Bold, Be Radical, Be Respectful

Kinsey Neal '18 on Leadership and Pushing for Change

…have the ability and the responsibility to create the community you want to be a part of. Also, ask to have class outside. I’ve never been told no. Q. College highlights? A. I have always enjoyed being in the outdoors, but the opportunity to have Lake Superior and the north…

Northland College student standing on rock at Lake Superior

Globalization on Rural Fisheries Communities

…to ask if she would be interested in a full ride to Michigan State University this fall. “There was no way I could turn that down,” she says. Stephanie attributes some of her success to professors Jon Martin, assistant professor of forestry, and Erik Olson, assistant professor of natural resources….

Deer exclosure-Bayfield County

Wisconsin’s Disappearing Forest

Prof Sarah Johnson researches the botanical realities of deer browse

…northern forest with little deer pressure. Johnson is walking in the woods with me on a Friday afternoon in June for two reasons. First, because I asked her if she would show me the impacts of high-density “deer browse” on the landscape. Second, because further down this road is a…

Northland College 1970s alumni

The Clan of the Tropicals

…some interest in you, or they do not. You then just have to ask something simple. I remember typical questions being, “Where do you come from?,” “Where is your town?,” or “How is your family?” This is how groups and little clans formed. One of the groups that I frequented…

Pink squirrel illustration by James O'Brien

Pink Explosion

Armed With a Flashlight and a Sense of Wonder, Researchers Discover Hot-Pink Squirrels