2024-2025 Northland Catalog
Today on Gotham, editor Nick Juravich interviews Brian L. Tochterman about his new book, The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear, about the competing narratives that shaped the city after World War II, in the age of mass suburbanization and deindustrialization. For readers who haven’t encountered…
…three generations of involvement with the College, in April 2003, Kenneth and his wife, Patricia, gifted $1 million to establish the Bro Professorship of Sustainable Regional Development, a professorship that continues today. “As my grandfather [Albin] said in 1945, seemingly small events at Northland changed the course of lifetimes: a…
…tiniest details of plants and notice subtle changes in the forest ecosystems. Many of these changes were based on the availability of water. Plants, ecology, cells, chemistry, and water are regularly the subject of my current work. Without my biology background, my work would not be what it is today….
In 2014, Matthew Cooper had what many newly minted faculty scientists dream of: his own laboratory and a generous start-up package at a public research university. Then he heard about an opening at a liberal-arts college in rural northern Wisconsin and decided to give it all up. Today, Cooper is…
…I still think about today. It also focused on change at a systemic level which is where I want to be working. Individual actions are great but our environmental issues are big, wicked problems, and I think to solve them we have to make all of our systems more sustainable….
…Wisconsin Department Natural Resource in Superior, Wisconsin. “I am forever indebted to the incredible mentors I have had at the Burke Center,” she said. “I would not have been able to complete my capstone project without them and wouldn’t be half the scientist I am today without the guidance and…
Almost two-thirds—63.3 percent—of Ashland and Bayfield county residents said they are opposed to the proposed Badgerwood LLC Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in Bayfield County, according to the Northland College Public Opinion Poll released today. The Northland College Center for Rural Communities (CRC) conducted telephone interviews with a random sample…
