Northland College’s research project—Wild Madeline: Assessing the Wildlife Presence and Abundance of Madeline Island—was one of thirty applications to receive grant funding from the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin through the 2016 C.D. Besadny Conservation Grant Program. The Wild Madeline project leader and Northland College Professor Erik Olson said they…
…that’s something Andy and I need to do well if we are to succeed at our goal of working full time on our farm.” Stephanie earned a masters from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in environmental science and policy and now works as a nutrient management specialist with the Wisconsin Department…
…twenty percent of the world’s fresh surface water.” Preorder your copies through Island Press and other outlets here. Book Tour Schedule Fall Fest Hometown Pre-launch Northland College, Ashland Friday, September 28, 2018, 4–5 p.m. Official Book Launch Discovery Center, Milwaukee Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 5–7 p.m. Author Talks and Panel…
…his degree from Northland in peace, conflict, and global studies, a master of social work from the University of Minnesota in 2013, and a master of public policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in 2014. Morales recently accepted a full-time position with the Minnesota Department of Human Services…
…something I’m good at and love—science—to the benefit of the environment,” he says. Trevor has been accepted into the University of Wisconsin-Madison PhD program in chemistry, a package that includes tuition and a part-time teaching assistant position. Trevor and his peers started their inquiry by looking at cigarette butts. Public…
…review by other Great Lakes states, including those that lost out on the factory. Peter Annin, co-director of a Northland College water center and author of “The Great Lakes Water Wars,” said the proposed diversion could be vulnerable to a legal challenge given the lack of agreement among drafters of…
…publicly armed citizenry means for society. Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice Angela Stroud has researched for eight years the reasoning behind concealed carry. She presents her results in, Good Guys with Guns: The Appeals and Consequences of Concealed Carry, published by the University of North Carolina Press in…
…Gogebic Taconite planned to develop. Northland College Associate Professor of Geoscience Tom Fitz said there’s a roughly nine-mile stretch of the long, slender “asbestiform” crystals. The crystals are a form of mineral known to be linked to mesothelioma, a rare type of lung cancer. “In the stretch that’s in Wisconsin…
…lives. Taken together, these studies describe a population that is struggling to find a new story—one in which they are once again the heroes. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HARD WORK? When Northland College sociologist Angela Stroud studied applications for licenses to carry concealed firearms in Texas, which exploded after President Obama…
…Jan. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. This event, cosponsored by the Chequamegon Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, is free and open to the public. “I am confident that we are finally grappling with the challenge of climate change in a serious way, especially…
