“To The Best of Our Knowledge,” an award-winning weekly Wisconsin Public Radio program, has as its technical director Caryl Wheeler Owen ’75 of Verona, Wisconsin. The show, which has been produced for 25 years, is the winner of the 64th annual Peabody Award for radio programming in 2005 and can be heard on more than […]
With a set career goal of working for himself, David Bardwick ’72 of Escondido, California, now owns a successful furniture art gallery in Solana Beach, California, just north of San Diego. His collection of furniture and art is under the name of the David Allan Collection, and it boasts pieces of art from many eastern […]
Rhetorical criticism skills learned as a communication major helped Alison Thiel, a senior from Ripon, Wisconsin, develop findings that display a shift in the dominance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis in Western Culture through the pictorial representation of sea turtles by National Geographic. Thiel, who also had a second major in environmental studies, says […]
Chapter 1: Preparing for the Semester and the Future [Editor’s Note: Chuchen Tan ’16, Sara Driebel ’16, and Jacob Sahr ’16 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] As summer is drawing to a close, I am […]
Chapter 1: Becoming an Alumna [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Happy summer! I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather wherever this wonderful […]
Liz Walsh ’14, a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, received a second-place award for a research project submitted to an international agricultural science competition. More than 9,000 students from 61 countries participated in the Alltech Young Scientist Competition. Walsh, originally from Johnson Creek, Wisconsin, majored in biology and English at Ripon College. Her research […]
Austin Van Treeck ’14 of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, is a workforce development professional for the Sheboygan Country Economic Development Corp. He participated in a private job fair Wednesday to assist workers displaced from the closings of Conagra Foods (Ripon Cookie Factory) and Gredy Foundry in Berlin. “Between the two companies, nearly 500 employees will be losing […]
Obesity prevention is a great interest of Stephanie Alvarez ’16, a psychology major from Chicago, Illinois, because of today’s high rates of obesity in children and adolescents. “My curiosity led me to study college student eating habits in relation to parenting styles and accessibility of healthy food,” she says. Alvarez is part of the McNair […]
From the Kohler Foundation’s Gifts of Art program, Ripon College has received works by three artists for its permanent collection: Jean Stamsta, Schomer Lichtner and Ruth Grotenrath. The Kohler Foundation has a legacy of supporting the arts and education that reaches back to the 1940s. Much of the work that the foundation does benefits the […]
A student experience at the former Associated Colleges of the Midwest Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota revealed a whole new world to Lorilei “Lori” Carson Marshall ’81. “I took a Wetlands Ecology course the summer after my freshman year,” she says. “I went as a suburban kid who had never paddled a canoe much […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, published an opinion piece on NationalReview.com. In “Will Obama Allow ISIS to Have Chemical Weapons, Too?”, Colucci questions President Obama’s stance on ISIS using chemical weapons, citing his previous failure with Syria. “It has been well-documented that the Assad regime in Syria used […]
Associate Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas had two reviews published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in July. The reviews address two different displays on the Wisconsin Museum of Art in West Bend, Wisconsin. One is Nathaniel Stern’s “Giverny of the Midwest,” a series of photographic scans printed on watercolor paper. The second is “Wilde’s […]
Ripon College has announced that Thomas ’72 and Suellen “Sudy” Reigle Altholz ’73 will give $1 million to Ripon College to promote study abroad experiences for its students. The gift will help fund scholarships for Ripon students to pursue academic study, research or student teaching opportunities abroad. “The essence of the college experience starts with […]
Katie Warczak ’16 of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, first read “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” during an English class taught by Assistant Professor of English Mary Unger at Ripon College. The controversial short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent was published in the magazine Fire!!! in 1926. When she read the story again — in an […]
C.J. Thode ’04 is an assistant professor teaching organic chemistry at the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York. While a chemistry student at Ripon College, several research opportunities helped him move forward in his career. The summer after his sophomore year, he researched organic chemistry through a National Science Foundation program at Loyola […]
The Ripon College campus often is commended for its beauty. The people responsible for maintaining this beauty are part of the grounds department. The staff is responsible for a wide variety of tasks, such as landscaping, mowing, snow removal, trash removal, event setup and package deliveries. “The best part of my job is the wide […]
The liberal arts and sciences education she gained at Ripon College and the independent research she did as a student laid a foundation that has led Laura Plummer Nielsen, ’04 to where she is in her life today, Nielsen says. At Ripon, Nielsen was a French and music major, with an emphasis on piano. She […]
Probability has gotten a little easier to understand with joint research by Logan Soich ’15 of Franklin, Wisconsin, who majored in economics and mathematics, and Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Chester Ismay. Ismay and Soich worked together to make short videos explaining concepts of probability, created an interactive applet to help students visualize […]
Memory health and cognitive function are the focus of Linda Mogicato Sasser ’75 of Bloomingdale, Illinois, and she now is in her second year of running her business, Brain and Memory Health. She speaks and leads workshops about memory health and cognitive function at marketing events and residential retirement communities. After graduation from Ripon College, […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, recently published an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report. In “Extremists Love a Vacuum,” Colucci expresses his concern that the president’s “half-hearted foreign policy” has allowed Islamic extremism to worsen. “It is almost exhausting making a list of every location that […]