Explore all four seasons in the north woods with Emily Stone ’04, naturalist and education director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin in this multi-media presentation Friday, September 23 at 4:30 p.m. at the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Through Stone’s research and unique perspective, you…
…Association (NASA) and this year advocated for and got NASA sashes for the commencement ceremony. This past year she placed second at the national AISES conference for her presentation on the southwestern willow flycatcher. “I’m really interested in how invasive vegetation affects their breeding capabilities within the Middle Rio Grande…
…for Northland students from our region and thereby assist the College in their efforts to recruit more from the region. With the announcement came the presentation of a ceremonial check in the amount of $3,000. Newly named Northland Trustee Ann Hartman Maier ’81 accepted the check on behalf of the…
…the inaugural presentation of the newly formed Marvin Pertzik World Water Day Lecture Series Wednesday, May 4 at Northland College. Marvin Pertzik, a St. Paul attorney, was key in assisting the Mary Livingston Griggs & Mary Griggs Burke Foundation in making a $10 million endowment to Northland College in 2015….
…at the Minnesota and Wisconsin chapters of The Wildlife Society, they liked what they heard so much, they recognized Ryan for best undergraduate presentation. He has submitted his research results for publication in The Passenger Pigeon, the official scholarly publication of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology. “I hope to continue…
…the students in Russell’s Northwoods Pathways course, with her four-inch thick journal. In a fast-paced, hour-long slideshow presentation—with photos from both her digital and disposable cameras —she conveys her three biggest lessons: “weight matters, Clif bars are heaven sent, and you can always walk farther than you think,” she said….
…cooperative. Van Beest chose Northland College sight unseen because she received a postcard in the mail with a red canoe. The first thing she did when she arrived was to join the Chequamegon Food Co-op, located in downtown Ashland. She majored in English literature and unofficially minored in small business…
…outdoor education was before Northland, she said. She traveled around the world for twelve years but kept returning to the Pacific Northwest. And in 2014, she decided to settle down and pursue an MBA in sustainable business at Presidio Graduate School in Seattle. “When I graduated, getting into solar energy…
…be easily implemented and successful. “Every little personal choice we make does matter whether it is changing a lightbulb, eating more plant-based foods, or refusing to support a business whose values are not in alignment with yours,” she said. At Northland, she crafted her own major, sustainability and education, was…
