By Marie Orttenburger, Great Lakes Echo November’s presidential election is a harbinger of big change for federal programs like the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a multi-milliondollar program that addresses a multitude of Great Lakes problems. Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, convened an expert panel recently to discuss the future of…
The Northern Wisconsin Health Network, Essentia Health, and the Northland College Center for Rural Communities were awarded $162,754 in June to support the first of an eight-year project designed to improve behavioral health outcomes in a four-county region. The eight-year initiative is funded by the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment…
Angela Stroud, assistant professor of sociology and social justice at Northland College in Ashland, will speak with us about her newly released book Good Guys With Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry. We’ll talk about why people choose to arm themselves after mass shootings like the one in…
Three Northland College alum packed their baby Burley buggy and departed from Ashland Friday, May 20, heading west on a quest to run around Lake Superior. Monday, August 15, Evan Flom ’14, Allissa Stutte ’13, and Andy Butter ’14 returned from the east, running along the Lake Superior shoreline for…
…justice at Northland College in Ashland, said mass shootings like Orlando feed fears that people are “sitting ducks” if they’re unarmed. Stroud is author of “Good Guys with Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry.” “This has become the answer to gun violence that we just need more people…
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…
Circumnavigating Lake Superior is such a uniquely Northland College student experience. In addition to the Superior Connections program that includes a May trip around the lake, there are Northlanders who go on their own by kayak, bike, and even on foot. There’s no official ledger of Northlanders who have traveled…
‘University Place’: Rapid Changes in Wolf Policy Only Heat Up the Conflict By Scott Gordon, Wiscontext For Erik Olson, an assistant professor of natural resources at Northland College in Ashland, the biggest weakness in Wisconsin’s policy toward wolves hasn’t been any one particular policy decision. Rather, he asserted in an…
