…something. When I checked out the topic on the Writers Read website … and saw it had to do with Encounters, I knew I had to do it. With my life experience, the story just wrote itself.” Buckles—who will read a piece of her own, as will organizer Gina Kirsten—said…
…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:…
…a real challenge. “Part of the problem is that it is so remote; you can’t just bring heavy equipment down there to pull the banks back and fix stuff,” Hudson said. “Another part of the problem is that it takes a long time to work with private landowners.” The first…
BY MARK PETERSON, for the Duluth News Tribune The idea sprung from disaster. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson had just viewed the Santa Barbara oil spill in August 1969. He was flying home when he read an article about teach-ins on the Vietnam War being conducted on college campuses. “It popped…
…an assistant professor of biology and natural resources at Northland College, where he has helped build a freshwater-research program staffed almost exclusively by undergraduates. He was drawn by the opportunity to work with students whose scientific careers are just starting, and by the lure of Lake Superior. Both he and…
…local food pantry. The liberal arts school with about 580 students is staking its future on environmental science. Northland in 1971 became one of the first colleges in the nation to offer an environmental studies degree. And its board of trustees just made sustainability its niche mission to attract more…
…direction? A. I came here to do an internship in ceramics. Initially, I was just planning to take a break from biology and then take the GRE to apply to grad schools for plant ecology. I ended up working at a production studio, Ceramic Design Group, and teaching ceramics at…
…The Great Lakes Commission and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded just under $300,000 in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative money that funded work to reduce flood peaks and erosion in North Fish Creek, said Matt Hudson, associate director of the college’s Mary Griggs Burke Center for Freshwater Innovation. “If we…
…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,”…
