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EcoLeague: Semester Immersion

Majoring in sustainable community development Grew up in Grand Marais, Minnesota Keeps busy making wildflower bouquets, painting portraits of friends, and drinking tea at the Black Cat. Northland College junior Sophie Holz has great memories from her EcoLeague semester at Green Mountain College—one of six EcoLeague schools, including Northland College….

Sigurd Olson leaning on tree

12 Personal Items of Sigurd Olson

At the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

…in the Explorers Club, American Canoe Association, and Northland College Alumni Association. The John Burroughs Award. A map of the Boundary Waters printed on cloth. Snowshoes. On January 13, 1982, Sig died of a heart attack while snowshoeing near his home, leaving a note in his typewriter, still at his…

Joe Fitzgerald and Randy Lehr drive boat to islands

Fitzgerald: From Plankton Guy to Water Resources Policy Economist

By Marie Zhuikov, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Wisconsin Sea Grant undergraduate student, Joe Fitzgerald, has spent the past two years working with Northland College Professor Randy Lehr collecting plankton. The collection is for Lehr’s research project on the Chequamegon Bay in Lake Superior. Students in the center where Fitzgerald…

Northland student sitting next to microscope

Student Researches Lawyers: The Fishy Kind

By Sean Devlin ’15 Northland College student Kaitlyn Windschitl was accepted into the McNair Scholar’s Program in November to fund her research project on the burbot (Lota lota), sometimes referred to a seelpout, lawyers, or even the poor man’s lobster. In May 2016 she will become the first member of…

Northland College dorm room goes eco vogue. Sustainable living..

Teen Vogue: Dorm Decor at Northland College

…been added as additional dorm room decor. However, not everything found inside mainstream retail stores and online dorm boutiques can speak for all. Lily Sevilla, a sustainable community development and sociology major with an environmental science minor at Wisconsin’s Northland College, has stylishly shown that vintage purchases can be cool…

Students line up for testing GMOs at STEM Career Day

Middle School STEM Career Day

Some 109 middle school students from northern Wisconsin school attended a STEM Career Day at Northland College and Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College Monday, April 3. Six sessions were held regarding geology, renewable energy, bats, forestry, plastics, and in the session pictured above, Northland College Assistant Professor of Biology Alissa Hulstrand…