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Northland College students do radio interview in early 1960s with photographer and curator John Szarkowski

Changing the Way We See

Ashland native John Szarkowski showed America a new way to look at photographs.

…of the photography department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, he had just received his second Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a landscape photography project. In a letter to Edward Steichen, then curator of the department, he accepted the job, registering with his signature dry wit:…

Northland College alum Audra (Jung) Willing installing solar panels on top of a roof.

Climbing roofs? No problem.

Audra (Jung) Willing '05 uses outdoor ed skills for solar design

…to creating a more just and healthy world,” she said. Willing helps students develop their leadership and communication skills as well as navigate organizational change effectively through their capstone projects. “Northland was the first place I experienced how important it is to cultivate community and act as a global citizen,”…

Setting the table at the Farmers Union Dinner

Room for More at the Table

Reflections on the Universal Power of a Shared Meal

…continue to build a healthier and more just community? We must consciously and continually integrate ourselves, always leaving room for more at the table. So, this Thanksgiving, enjoy the company of others around the table and savor the flavors of the season, celebrate the regional bounty our food system has…

Northland College alum Alex Alvarez

Climate Change and the Risk for Mass Violence

Alex Alvarez '85 leads the Genocide Resource Project

Alex Alvarez ’85 majored in sociology and outdoor education at Northland College and went on to pursue sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is a professor at Northern Arizona University in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice and from 2001 until 2003 was the founding Director of…

Northland College alums Derek Ogle and Tam Hofman

Alumni Association Recognizes Hofman and Ogle

…worked for the Ashland and South Shore school districts as a special education teacher and received her master’s degree in special education from UW-Superior in 2004. Derek Ogle, or just Ogle as he’s known on campus, is a professor of mathematics and natural resources at Northland College. He graduated magna…

Northland College alum Carl Sacks looks at GIS with students

Mapping for a Better World

Created "The Black Snake in Sioux Country" Map

…Tribal and Community College in Cloquet. He lives in Duluth with his wife Zee and two kids, Oscar, age three, and Orion who was born in August. When Sack decided to become a cartographer, he didn’t just want to make pretty and useful maps. “I became a cartographer to make…

Eau Claire solar garden, photo taken by PJ Nelson

In a Bold Step Forward, Students Purchase Solar Shares

Solar will provide power to CSE

…society as a whole,” said Jenise Swartley, NCSA president. The solar garden is scheduled to be built in fall 2019 on Xcel-owned land near their Ashland Service Center, just off Farm Road in the city of Ashland. Until then, NCSA owns shares in the Eau Claire Community Solar Garden that…

Film class and wild rice parching

Filmmaker, Students Document Harvest

…said Moore. “I felt it represented the biggest issues of our day. What I saw was about extraction and contamination, but also about resilience and envisioning. It wasn’t just a resistance camp, it was about exploring new ideas of economy and giving people a space to be in touch with…

Northland College 1970s alumni

The Clan of the Tropicals

…some interest in you, or they do not. You then just have to ask something simple. I remember typical questions being, “Where do you come from?,” “Where is your town?,” or “How is your family?” This is how groups and little clans formed. One of the groups that I frequented…

slides of asbestos

WPR: Research Reveals More Asbestos-Like Minerals

…there and southwest of Mellen. Differences in geologic heat when the minerals were formed account for the variation in some parts of the range, Fitz explained. Not all so-called amphibole minerals are known to be hazardous, he said — just those that got hot enough to form into the long,…