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Former faculty member Jim Meeker

James E. Meeker Remembered

…year with his or her independent research in the natural resources field. Northland is accepting contributions to this fund. To make a contribution, you can make a gift online at www.northland.edu/give or mail a gift to: James E. Meeker Endowed Award Fund Institutional Advancement 1411 Ellis Avenue Ashland, WI 54806…

Katie Musick at the mountains

Reflections of a College Hopper

…post-nominal title is still a combination of a BA and BS, that stack is four hats high: a large state school in a mountainous college town, a mid-sized private school in a large metropolis, online courses taken in the comfort of my own home, and Northland College on the shore…

Four people standing in the water with research equipment

Burke Center Researchers Featured on AquaKids TV

…Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation were featured in the December 19 episode of AquaKids, which aired on eighty networks around the world. AquaKids is an award-winning nonprofit K-12 program that educates young people about ecology, wildlife, science, and how it all relates. The episode can now be viewed here online….

Northland College alum in bee helmet

Wustner Brings Beekeeping to Larger Audience

Jacob Wustner ’08, who majored in environmental studies at Northland, is taking his natural, organic beekeeping skills to a larger audience, teaching a popular online beekeeping course through Organic Life Guru. In Bee Keeping 101: Organic, Natural, Traditional, Wustner instructs on topics ranging from honey bee biology to caring for…

Alumnus Henry Fitzgibbon performs on stage at Northland College

Henry Fitzgibbon ’51 On Broadway

A Life in the Arts

…New York, he earned a spot in a professional Gilbert and Sullivan repertory company, called the Masque and Lyre Light Opera Company, presenting all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in sequence—a different one every week. Renamed American Savoyards in 1952, the company traveled from Florida to Maine, performed in…

Design board of Northland College graphic design student Victoria Schell

Summer of Coffee Love

…from a professional while creating work for Big Water,” Schell said. “The freedom I had to create new media for the company and skills I learned through it will stay with me.” Big Water Coffee Roasters is a locally owned business that has grown a successful storefront as well as…

Alumna wilderness fire chief

Northland Alum named one of Time magazine’s ‘Silence Breakers’

…forced to report incidents at professional, personal, emotional and financial expense. “I just thought, ‘If it’s not me, then who?’” Martin said. ”‘If not now, when?’” Martin joins celebrities such as Ashley Judd, Taylor Swift and Selma Blair who were recognized as what Time described as “the voices that launched…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…will generate applied learning opportunities to enhance the College’s curriculum while providing meaningful learning opportunities for regional youth and adults. Last fall, Gingras cultivated a relationship with the Island City Academy, a project-based environmental charter school based out of Cumberland, Wisconsin. Outdoor education students in Coulson’s professional development program then…

Northland College graduate Olivia Anderson runs tests at the Burke Center lab

Summer Ideal Time for Gaining Professional Experience

Olivia Anderson, 2018 Graduate

Major: sustainable community development with physical planning and development emphasis, and natural resources with ecological restoration emphasis Hometown: Saint Paul, Minnesota Future Plans: sustainable design Q. What are you up to post-graduation? A. Short-term, this summer and at least into the fall I will be working for the Mary Griggs…

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Student projects save USFS $100,000, receive recognition

…than those provided by many professional design firms. “Only the impossible would receive back-to-back Chief’s awards,” Maloney said. “I have worked for the Forest Service most of the time since 2000. The only Chief’s awards I have ever seen are the two Northland College has now earned.” In 2016, the…