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Northland Class Taking Art Project, Film to Minnesota

…Harvest: An Embroidered Art & Idea Exchange” embellishes photographs and prints with yarn through the contributions of many community members. The kickoff event will take place at the co-op from 4 to 6 p.m. The project comes from Northland College Filmmaker-in-Residence Paulette Moore who is bringing the project from her…

Student at city hall meeting

Water Collaborative Connects Communities

…Kellie Pederson, Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Lake Superior Project Coordinator, National Marine Sanctuary Research in the Chequamegon Bay: • Steve Galarnue, Director of the Great Lakes Department of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources • Jay Glase, National Parks Service • Randy Lehr, Codirector of the Northland College…

Dan Romano

Alumnus Dan Romano: Weatherman

…watching Reed Timmer on TV made me think this is something that I have wanted to do my entire life,” said Romano. The next day he started researching meteorology programs and found Northland College. The third time was a charm. Northland College fit him well. He developed his own WRNC…

Aerial shot of Ashland and Chequamegon Bay

Rural America: A Living Laboratory

Center for Rural Communities Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide

City of Ashland Comprehensive Plan and presented their plan to the city council and planning commission. Northland College has already sent students into the world to work in city planning, nonprofit advocacy, and in green building design. Center for Rural Communities In rural communities such as Ashland, policy-makers and concerned…

Two students create lesson plan

Northland-LCOOCC Partner to Train More Teachers

HAYWARD, Wis.— In an effort to train more Native American teachers in northwestern Wisconsin, the Northland College Educator Preparation Program has partnered with Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College (LCOOCC) to offer a four-year degree completion program. “The need for Native American teachers in the classroom is talked about in…

Student at white board giving presentation

Students provide real life solutions to Forest Service

Northland College last year to support freshwater research at Northland College and at the former estate of the Burke family, known as Forest Lodge. The Forest Service manages the Forest Lodge property, located on a headwater of the Mississippi River forty miles south of campus, in partnership with Northland College….

Robin Wall Kimmerer at commencement

“We can’t just change light bulbs, we have to change hearts”

Commencement 2015 BY Sara Chase, For the Ashland Daily Press “Commencement—it doesn’t sound like an ending it sounds like a beginning,” said Northland College President Dr. Michael A. Miller Saturday in his greeting at the college’s commencement for its 2014-15 graduates. The ceremony for Northland’s 112 graduates, their family and

Weather graphic of clouds, snow, and lightning

7 Weather Watchers

Meterological Careers

The dramatic shifts in weather in northern Wisconsin and around Lake Superior have inspired more than one career at Northland College. Wayne Feltz ’91 studied earth science at Northland College then went onto earn an MS in atmospheric science in 1994 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked as…

Northland College student Adrian Diaz in Nicaragua

Diaz Looks at Eliminating Waterborne Illness in Nicaragua

…Malcolm McLean Internship, and annual award given to a Northland College student in honor of the McLean Family. The late Malcolm Mclean was one of Northland’s longest-serving presidents and former CTI executive director. McLean was a strong advocate of CTI’s water program in Nicaragua, and personally led efforts to launch…

Gary Ferguson

2014 SONWA Winners Announced

Northland College announced today for Earth Day their choices for the best in nature writing this past year. Three authors have been selected to receive the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) for adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Established in 1991, the SONWA honors the literary legacy of…