…Northland College last year to support freshwater research at Northland College and at the former estate of the Burke family, known as Forest Lodge. The Forest Service manages the Forest Lodge property, located on a headwater of the Mississippi River forty miles south of campus, in partnership with Northland College….
Northland College announced today for Earth Day their choices for the best in nature writing this past year. Three authors have been selected to receive the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA) for adult, young adult, and children’s literature. Established in 1991, the SONWA honors the literary legacy of…
…The event was held Saturday, Jan. 30, at Northland College in Ashland. Judges Cynthia Belmont, professor of English at Northland College, Claire Duquette, former editor of the Ashland Daily Press, and Gina Kirsten, composition specialist at Northland College, selected 22 writers and poets to read their submissions in front of…
…Kellie Pederson, Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Lake Superior Project Coordinator, National Marine Sanctuary Research in the Chequamegon Bay: • Steve Galarnue, Director of the Great Lakes Department of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources • Jay Glase, National Parks Service • Randy Lehr, Codirector of the Northland College…
…And I sail with my two sons every chance we get. One of those sons, Brontë Goodspeed Gross ‘17, is now himself a Northland College graduate that turned his college major and our family passion, sailing, as his way of working through college—in Bayfield, Wisconsin, teaching sailing. The circle has…
…trip on the Montreal River in eastern Wisconsin,” senior Bronte Goodspeed told the magazine. “I texted my professor about it beforehand and she asked if she could come.” Last year, College Magazine named Northland College one of the Top 10 Colleges for Outdoor Enthusiasts. 2016 Outdoor Orientation Lake Superior trip…
The dramatic shifts in weather in northern Wisconsin and around Lake Superior have inspired more than one career at Northland College. Wayne Feltz ’91 studied earth science at Northland College then went onto earn an MS in atmospheric science in 1994 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked as…
…– and even a backwards Hamlet. Director Laura Loucks, a Northland College junior majoring in sustainable community development says the drama club had been inactive for some time, but was reinstated last year and now has a core group of committed students. Loucks said in a college community where science…
Commencement 2015 BY Sara Chase, For the Ashland Daily Press “Commencement—it doesn’t sound like an ending it sounds like a beginning,” said Northland College President Dr. Michael A. Miller Saturday in his greeting at the college’s commencement for its 2014-15 graduates. The ceremony for Northland’s 112 graduates, their family and…
…projects—eco-reps program, recycling bins, reusable dinnerware, and hydroponic towers—funded and are waiting for them to be implemented. EMILY DONALDSON Major: Sustainable Community Development Project: Addition of an eco-reps program Why: Many college campuses have eco-reps programs that are predominantly based in residence halls. An eco-reps program at Northland College can…
