Author: Dale Devries
Colucci: Failed leadership is to blame for increase in attacks
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the Department of Politics and Government, had an opinion piece published in U.S. News & World Report. It criticizes President Barack Obama’s approach to terrorism and the Country Reports on Terrorism 2014. “The report is typical of government documents like this, exhaustive in detail, with so much minutiae […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty.
Arab, Muslim Israeli students visit Ripon Thursday
Young Arab Christian and Muslim peace ambassadors from Israel will share their dreams of a peaceful future during a talk at Ripon College on Thursday. The talk will begin at 10:45 a.m. in Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall of Science on the campus. The visiting students are juniors and seniors at Mar Elias High School in […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Special Event, Student.
College professor Tom Buesch ’65 says Ripon College ‘saved’ him
“Ripon saved me. Nobody knows this story, but the story is true,” says Tom Buesch ’65 as he reflects back on his life. All his life, Buesch had been a poor student. As a child, he had to repeat the 5th grade, and his teachers never expected much of him. When he went to Washington […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
RaeAnn Brixius ’16 steps out of her small-town setting
Coming from the small town of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, and being a prospective first-generation college student, RaeAnn Brixius ’16 faced many challenges, both financial and in her world-view. “My dad is a welder, my mom is a Realtor and with the low market she has a lot of really small sales,” Brixius says. “She never knows […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Research, Student.
Parents’ gratitude, employer match boost scholarship funding
Among the many new generous scholarships established as part of the Imagine Tomorrow capital campaign is the Frey/Dahlhauser Trust Scholarship for Physics and Chemistry. The scholarship was created by Eloise and Scott Frey of Racine, Wisconsin, after their son, Josh Frey ’09, graduated with a double major in chemistry and physics. Scott and Eloise Frey, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Research paves the way to the future for chemistry graduate
When Jordan Buhle looks at the world around her, “it’s so complex and beautiful and ordered,” she says. “With chemistry, I’m able to look at those tiny complexities of the world, understand how they work and try to manipulate them. Sometimes it feels like a giant puzzle or a big mystery, but it fascinates me.” […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Research, Student.
Life at Ripon — Clarence Sanon ’15
Chapter 4: Reflections of a Red Hawk [Editor’s Note: Clarence Sanon ’15, Rachel Detrie ’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!] Readers, As I close the chapter of my life titled, “The […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Student.
Life After Ripon — Ariana Myers ’14
Chapter 4: Reaching Equilibrium [Editor’s Note: Ariana Myers ’14, Nathan Held ’14, and Sophia Kaounas ’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!] And so my first whirlwind year at Princeton comes to a close. I can’t believe […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
John Heflebower ’73: Bringing laughter to the silver screen
Comedy has heavily influenced the life and career of John Heflebower ’73 of Saint Helena, California. He works as a financial planner, and he also gives comedic presentations to corporate groups about humor and why things are funny. He runs a Facebook humor blog under the name of John Victor, and he is the executive […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Students show off ceramic techniques with new tiled sink
As a result of the Ceramics II class, a decorative sink has been installed in the women’s restroom at C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The sink was both designed and assembled by ceramics students using tiles made by the students in the class taught by Associate Professor of Art Mollie Oblinger. Sara Strieter ’17 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Student.
Recent graduate: new media just as valid as older classics
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Research, Student.
Ripon Professor Shares Fascination with Ancient Maya Culture
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Research.
Colucci: Beijing aiming to be a world naval power
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty.
Khan’s instruction about birds takes flight in many directions
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Research.
Alumna carries on with dream of helping homeless girls in Rwanda, Burundi
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni.
Jenna Breaker ’15 wins second national championship
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Athletics News, Student.
Ripon Summer Players opens season with Red Herring
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts.
Ripon College Awarded Arthur Vining Davis Grant for Curriculum
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Uncategorized.
Colucci: Don’t buy bad policies on Syria and North Korea
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 […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty.
Memuna Khan listed among most influential people in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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.
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty.