Adjunct Photography Professor Bob Gross had a little pre-April Fools fun in his Digital Photography classroom yesterday. Students learn about exposure settings, lighting basics, PhotoShop techniques, “and how to bend the rules of time and space with your mind,” he said.
SONWA 2015 Children’s Book Award Winner By Eileen Van Pernis, SONWA Children’s Book Committee The Children’s Book Committee of the Sigurd F. Olson Award (SONWA) is proud to announce the 2015 winner, Alan Rabinowitz, author of A Boy and a Jaguar, about a stuttering boy and a caged animal. A…
BY MARK PETERSON, for the Duluth News Tribune The idea sprung from disaster. Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson had just viewed the Santa Barbara oil spill in August 1969. He was flying home when he read an article about teach-ins on the Vietnam War being conducted on college campuses. “It popped…
BY Michael A. Miller, Northland College President My phone started buzzing moments after Sweet Briar College, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, announced closing its doors, closing with 700 students and an $85 million endowment. Northland College, where I am president, is a small liberal…
SONWA 2015 Young Adult Winner By Jan Penn, SONWA Children’s Committee Paul Fleischman’s Eyes Wide Open approaches the topic of environmental engagement from the angle of an old fashioned “investigative reporter.” It takes matters of who, what, when, where to the depths associated with the process of critical thinking. A…
In a July 27, 2016, talk hosted by the Lafayette County 4-H club, recorded for Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place, Tom Fitz, associate professor of geology, delved into how the Penokees—“some of the oldest rocks in Wisconsin”—took shape. He explored the processes that formed the complex layers of rock making…
Studying, researching & touring Lake Superior By Beth Dooley, For the Star Tribune Updated: September 5, 2014 “Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or even close to the wilderness, but some place of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with…
The UW System Technology Foundation, Inc., recently awarded Northland College and UW-Eau Claire $27,270 award to support their collaborative faculty-student research on the hydrogenation of used plastics to produce useful chemicals. This award provides Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nick Robertson and Professor and Department of Chemistry Michael Carney and their…
