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Alumnus Henry Fitzgibbon performs on stage at Northland College

Henry Fitzgibbon ’51 On Broadway

A Life in the Arts

…Fitzgibbon sang a solo at his own high school graduation in 1945, and for the next two years, took private voice lessons at Lawrence College (now University) and saved money. In the fall of 1947, he headed for Northland College, where he studied English and music, joined the Blue Masque…

Northland College convocation

Class of 2020

Welcoming 222 New Students

Northland College officially welcomed more than two-hundred new students Friday, September 9 with a ceremonial walk, convocation address, and Everybody Party, sponsored by the Northland College Student Association. Drummer Stevie Matier led the Class of 2020, pounding a Lambeg drum from northern Ireland, over Bay City Creek, across the Fenenga…

Snapping turtle

Turtles, Temperature & Sex

…and alligators survived, the hypothesis goes, is that the water regulated drastic temperature changes during incubation. This subject has fascinated Northland College Assistant Professor of Biology Kayla Bieser, Ph.D., since she went abroad as an undergraduate in Costa Rica researching leatherback sea turtles. She pursued graduate degrees studying red-eared slider…

Professor Erica Hannickel sits at counter with glass of wine.

How Wine Shaped a Nation

Q&A WITH PROFESSOR ERICA HANNICKEL

…I didn’t think too much about wine country. Once I moved to Iowa for my PhD, and then to Northland College to teach, I became more conscious of how California had long constructed itself as the fruit and breadbasket of the United States and the world. Q. In what way?…

Spring Forest Play

March 14April 18

…your child’s overall health and well-being. Program Details SOEI Youth Programs Coordinator Clair Emmons will be leading Forest Play this year. She will be assisted by Amelia Pietz, a student at Northland College who also holds an associate’s degree in early childhood education. Mallary Bade and Katherine Jenkins will be…

chickadee

Naturalist Stone '04 to speak at Fall Festival

Explore all four seasons in the north woods with Emily Stone ’04, naturalist and education director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin in this multi-media presentation Friday, September 23 at 4:30 p.m. at the Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. Through Stone’s research and unique perspective, you…

Student and professor in wetland

Chasing Dragonflies for Science

Senior Joe Fitzgerald been involved in graduate level research for the last four years at Northland College, leading plankton research in Chequamegon Bay, developing a phytoplankton catalog, and studying silver carp in the in the Mississippi. The first two have earned him the name The Plankton Guy. This past summer…

Northland College Campus and Chequamegon Bay

In-person Visit Day

July 12, 2024, 1:00 pm5:30 pm

Check out Northland’s beautiful campus, meet current students, learn more about academics, and get your questions answered at our Visit Day! If you’re interested in Northland, you’ll want to be here.

Northland College student with journal

296 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail

Jane Dahlgren Hikes Solo for May Term

…ninety-three-mile loop around Mt. Rainier, attended Widjiwagan YMCA camp in northern Minnesota, where for her final summer, she embarked on a five-week canoe trip to the Arctic Circle. She heard about Northland College from a friend at Widji and visited campus her senior year of high school. “I really fell…

In-person Visit Day

January 25, 1:00 pm5:30 pm

Check out Northland’s beautiful campus, meet current students, learn more about academics, and get your questions answered at our Visit Day! If you’re interested in Northland, you’ll want to be here. Register now….