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Students hiking on York.

Recommitting to Our National Parks

…Six of these areas are in Minnesota: Grand Portage National Monument, Mississippi National Recreation and Resource Area, North Country Trail, St. Croix National Scenic River, Pipestone National Historic Site and Voyageurs National Park. Just over the Wisconsin border is a seventh — the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. For entire article….

Pine marten

Carnivore Project Reveals Return of the Marten on Apostle Islands

…since 1969. In the summer of 2015, researchers were checking thousands of images from trail cameras on Stockton Island as part of the carnivore project which looks at island wildlife diversity and abundance throughout the Apostle Islands. “We had just docked and [NPS ranger] Julie Van Stappen informed me that…

Fish Creek flowing into Chequamegon Bay

Researchers Prep region for Climate Change

…the data collected by spring so that he can refine the field sampling protocol for the next field season. “Much of our modeling work, coordinated by Dr. Luke Van Roekel with Northland College, is basically downscaling ocean models for Lake Superior,” Lehr said. “We just don’t know that much about…

Northland College student Kim Oldenborg measures water on a stream.

Oldenborg Headed for Future in Water

…basic electrical wiring. “Methods and technologies we have developed to assess and monitor watershed health has expanded more than I ever could have imagined,” Oldenborg explained, stating this is just one of the many aspects of the applied research program that allows students to stay up-to-date on the latest technologies…

Graduates skating to commencement

Princeton Review Names Northland Top Green College


just meeting sustainability standards, it’s setting them,” reported The Princeton Review. They noted the following: • Northland recently became a member of the Founding Circle for the Billion Dollar Green Challenge, which encourages the college and university community to invest a total of $1 billion in self-managed revolving funds that…

Northland College alumnus Simeon Rossi standing behind bar full of lemons

From Ornithology to Loonshine

A STORY OF MODERN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

…ones that your grandmother makes,” he said. His friends thought it was so good, they encouraged him to consider changing careers. His best friend from high school, Mark Schiller, had just graduated from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota with a degree in business and was interested in…

Alumnus Henry Fitzgibbon performs on stage at Northland College

Henry Fitzgibbon ’51 On Broadway

A Life in the Arts

…a favorite theatrical character, Fitzgibbon says he’d have to choose the Captain in H.M.S. Pinafore, but he can’t name a specific favorite moment on Broadway—“for me the entire scene of ‘doing theater’ in New York City was, well, just amazing in itself.” TOP PHOTO: From left to right, Mary Dexter…

Solar panels at ELLC residence hall

Planning for Carbon Neutrality by 2030

…of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. AEI launched its study in mid-December with a two-day tour of campus and meetings with community and campus groups. “Just as world leaders are meeting in Geneva to address climate change on a global scale, so too are leaders at colleges and universities across…

Graduate riding a bike with no hands

Graduates, especially, be astounded by the wonder all around us

just above the horizon, a flaming ball ready to drop into the dusk below,” he wrote. “As I watched and listened, I became conscious of the slow, steady hum of millions of insects and through it the calling of the white throats and the violin notes of the hermit thrushes….

Peter Annin at beach

Q & A with "Great Lakes Water Wars" Author Peter Annin

…journalists, correct? A. There has always been something appealing to me in the mentoring/teaching process. Whether it involves working with newsroom colleagues or students on campus, there’s just something about making that connection with people to help them achieve new goals and higher aspirations. It can be very satisfying.  …