…advancement and extension of the Training Exceptional Educators (TREE) Clinical Residency Program. This partnership directly supports and impacts regional, state, and national efforts to increase diversity in the K-12 teaching profession as well as efforts in Ojibwe language revitalization by increasing the number of certified and licensed Native American teachers….
…Employment Program, the Chequamegon Food Co-op, and UW-Extension to conduct a local food survey. The purpose: to identify opportunities for workforce and economic development anchored in our burgeoning local food economy. Student researchers interview local stakeholders, develop survey questions, prepare mailings, analyze data, craft written reports, and help plan CRC…
…a wholesale network reaching across the upper Midwest. They supply roasts to other small town coffee shops, provide regular deliveries to local food pantries, and created a special blend for Northland College, named Fenenga Fuel, for the College’s first president. M.J. Fenenga. Schell worked directly with Kelley Linehan, who is…
A late night meal made from local ingredients is hard to find in Ashland, or anywhere in small town America, really. Northland College business senior Jesse DiLillo and junior Matt Hoszko set out to solve this problem at the Wisconsin Innovation Network’s Lake Superior Business and Technology Conference in August….
…a distance through the trees. It feels neat and, well, parklike. Comfortable. What’s missing, Johnson tells me, is what the UW-Madison limnologist John Magnuson called the “invisible present.” It refers to changes that happen so slowly that most of us don’t notice what is changing and therefore don’t recognize what’s…
…stars and helped her fine tune her already amazing gifts.” A member of the Mik Maq nation, Stephanie has been instrumental in initiating the first chapter of the American Indians in Science and Engineering Society (AISES) and a student veterans network. She served as president of the Native American Student…
…designed to provide financial support for student-initiated projects. In addition to workshops and keynote talks, students had the opportunity to meet research teams, policy advocates, and government agencies, eat lunch with a grain farmer from Nebraska, have dinner with an Organic Valley milk producer, and network with fellow students and…
…on the first result on the Mother Nature Network article. I was then faced with a difficult decision, to choose between the seven schools I had been accepted to. For all I knew, the college could have been a figment of my imagination, or even a complete lie. But in…
