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A fire in the campus fire ring

Community Campfire and S’mores at Northland

July 13, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

…entered into a drawing for new Northland gear. For Northlanders not so near our campus, we invite you to host campfires in your neck of the woods. Gather your Northland network and see what embers glow when we reunite our community. Share a photo of your campfire crew on the…

A fire in the campus fire ring

Community Campfire and S’mores at Northland

September 13, 2022, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

…entered into a drawing for new Northland gear. For Northlanders not so near our campus, we invite you to host campfires in your neck of the woods. Gather your Northland network and see what embers glow when we reunite our community. Share a photo of your campfire crew on the…

Northland College Diploma

Commencement

…with them and with us. One of the special qualities of Northland is the genuine friendship that students, faculty, and staff share. At the Baccalaureate service, graduates are invested with the privilege of wearing the baccalaureate cap and gown, and given the charge to work for the common good. We…

Northland College student plays golf.

Gilligan Personifies "Student-Athlete"

Northland Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and also participates in a new student-athlete leadership group that takes members of different Northland teams and brings them together to work on leadership techniques and work toward understanding different leadership qualities and styles. Gilligan’s collective experiences during her time near beautiful Lake Superior have…

Film class and wild rice parching

Filmmaker, Students Document Harvest

…associate professor of media arts and peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Moore met Northland College alumna Danielle Taylor (‘98), who had established the blog, Voices of the Penokee Hills, detailing the development of taconite mining in the Penokee Hills, located near Northland College in northern Wisconsin. In…

Chemistry students with Professor Nick Robertson

Chem Cohort Inch Forward Field of Sustainable Plastics

…has huge importance,” Corcoran explained. Corcoran admits to being biased, but believes Northland College’s integrated focus on sustainability drives students to make a difference in their field. Two years ago, Klein, Hudson and five other Northland College students coauthored research results with three UW-Eau Claire students in ChemComm, summarizing a…

SONWA Winners 2017

Honeybees and a trailblazing scientist top the 2017 SONWA book awards

  Northland College has announced the winning 2017 books for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award (SONWA). The SONWA committee awarded Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field by author Heather Swan the top prize in nature writing. “Swan takes an innovative look at the wonders of honeybees and…

Portrait of John Allen

Allen Named Philanthropist of the Year

…from Suamico, a small farming and fishing community near Green Bay, Allen graduated magna cum laude in 1977 from Northland College with a degree in social studies, with a pre-law emphasis. He earned a Juris Doctor from Hamline University Law School. Allen who is a long serving trustee — including…

Professor Sarah Johnson holds measuring tape at Stockton Island

Monitoring Vegetation in the Apostle Islands

Student-Faculty Research

Stockton Island is one of twenty-two Apostle Islands in Lake Superior near Northland College. The second largest island, Stockton, has many noteworthy characteristics—diverse plant life, including prolific blueberries, the highest concentration of black bears in the world, and a long stretch of “singing sand” that squeaks underfoot. At Julian Bay,…