The popular The Hunger Games franchise provided recent graduate Zachary Conners of Hollandale, Wisconsin, with a focus for his senior seminar topic. Conners’ research investigates how socioeconomic status determines deviance in The Hunger Games universe, and how deviance and disability are linked. In The Hunger Games series, there are those with a high social and […]
The Maya people fascinate us today, serving as fodder for popular books and movies. But who are these people? I initially was attracted to Maya art because of the beauty of its craftsmanship and the enigmatic nature of its subject matter; and when I came to learn about the tumultuous cultural history of the region […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of politics and government and interim director of the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College, wrote an opinion piece about Beijing’s drive to become a world naval power. It was published by the National Review. Click here to read the full article. Earlier this week, Colucci […]
Associate Professor of Biology Memuna Khan’s expertise is avian ecology, and her love of bird life is demonstrated through classes and faculty-student research projects at Ripon College, and Liberal Arts in Focus courses stationed at both Ripon College and Coe College Wilderness Field Station near Ely, Minnesota. Khan started at Ripon College in 2006; in […]
While still a student at Ripon College, Ornella Umubyeyi ’13 of Evanston, Illinois, started several initiatives to help poor residents — especially females — in her home country of Rwanda and her mother’s neighboring home county of Burundi. Umubyeyi is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit Soul Survivors International to help people in those […]
For the second time in her distinguished Ripon College career, Jenna Breaker is a national champion. The recent graduate won her most recent championship Saturday in the high jump at the 2015 Outdoor Nationals in Canton, New York. She won the 2013 Indoor National Championship in the same event. Saturday’s meet, which was hosted by […]
Join the Ripon Summer Players June 5 through 7 for Red Herring, a new comedy about love, murder, marriage and other explosive devices. Set in 1952, the play jumps from Joe McCarthy’s living room in Wisconsin to the docks of Boston to the South Pacific islands. Red Herring has tough film noir detectives, spies, Russian […]
The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation awarded Ripon College a $50,000 grant to use toward the Ripon College Curriculum Planning and Review. Faculty have been working this past year reviewing and revising the curriculum and will continue the process this fall under Dr. Ed Wingenbach, the new vice president and dean of faculty. “Ripon College consistently […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of politics and government and interim director of the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College, wrote an opinion piece about “inconvenient narratives” concerning policies in Syria and North Korea. It was published by U.S. News & World Report. Click here to read the full article. Just […]
Memuna Khan, associate professor of biology, was named to a list of the top 100 most influential people in the city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Khan, who lives in Oshkosh, is president of the Oshkosh Zoological Society. The list was compiled by journalism students at the University of Wisconsin.
Chapter 4: Looking Forward, Looking Back [Editor’s Note: Rachel Detrie ’15, Clarence Sanon ’15 , and Kaitlyn Welzen ’15 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!] It is finally May and, as I’m writing this, it is […]
Chapter 4: A Transplant [Editor’s Note: Nathan Held ’14, Sophia Kaounas ’14, and Ariana Myers ’14 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!] Spring has sprung! And thank goodness it has… After winter, it’s time for all of […]
At the 149th Ripon College Commencement, Dr. Christopher Howard defended the importance of a liberal arts and sciences education on leadership. Click here to watch archived video from Commencement. Howard, president of Hampden-Sydney College and a Rhodes Scholar who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and later earned a Bronze Star for his service […]
Ripon College now is affiliated with the Open Innovation Drug Discovery Program at Eli Lilly. Through this program, students and faculty will use the technology at Eli Lilly to virtually screen molecules for their potential to be pharmaceuticals. After virtual screening, students and faculty will send molecules prepared at Ripon College to Eli Lilly for […]
The ceremonial mace, carried by the faculty marshal at the head of an academic procession, was given to Ripon College Nov. 16, 1946, by Sir Francis Evans of England and the Rev. Canon Edward West of New York. The mace, designed by West, was presented at the opening ceremony of Ripon College’s Centennial observances. The […]
President Zach Messitte was one of the authors of an opinion piece published in The Baltimore Sun. “Channelling Spiro Agnew in the Baltimore riots” addresses the fact that the current situation in Baltimore echoes a time when Agnew was a newly elected Republican governor of Maryland with little previous political experience that hailed from the […]
Three Ripon College graduates were recognized as outstanding Wisconsin teachers of mathematics at the spring meeting of the Wisconsin Mathematical Association of America, hosted at Ripon College by the Department of Math and Computer Science. They are: Dave Olenchek ’87 of Brookfield, Wisconsin, chair of the math department at Hartland Arrowhead High School. Heidi Hitchcock […]
(Talk delivered at the recent Awards Convocation at Ripon College) In the English Department, we often refer to “The Conversation,” which is our term for the many ways we and our students engage with literature and with each other. It is both literal and metaphorical. As teachers, we chiefly initiate discussion, posing questions and attending […]
Martin “Marty” Farrell, Ripon College professor of politics and government and coordinator of the global studies program, was awarded the 2014-15 Dick Ringler Distinguished Peace Educator Award for the state of Wisconsin. The award, given each year by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, was presented to Farrell at the WIPCS’s spring student-faculty […]
Considering that she is arguably the fastest player on Ripon College’s softball team, ranking in the program’s top 10 for career stolen bases, Korrine Peterson’s Red Hawks career got off to a slow start. With just minutes remaining in the final practice before the team’s season-opening game during her freshman year, Peterson broke her ankle […]