The Ripon College Orchestra will perform Saturday, Dec. 2. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The program will include “La Muerte Del Angel,” by Astor Piazzolla; “Kol Nidrei,” by Max Bruch, featuring Eric Lakanen, instructor of cello at Purdue University, on cello; and Symphony […]
The Ripon College Choral Union will perform Sunday, Dec. 3, on the campus. The concert will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The program will include: “Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina,” by Giovanni Battista Martini, with soloists Rachel Myers ’21 of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; Todd Petersen ’19 […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor of politics and government, has written a chapter for the second edition of “Homeland Security and Intelligence,” published this month by ABC-CLIO. The chapter concerns the role of the “Five Eyes,” an intelligence alliance comprising the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. “Homeland Security and Intelligence” investigates […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the Ripon College campus. Admission to the concert is free. The conductor is John C. Hughes, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities. He says the selections for the […]
George J. Dudycha, a professor of psychology at Ripon College from 1926-1950, was referenced in a humorous column by John Kelly in The Washington Post, Nov. 5, 2017. In Kelly’s column, “What’s the point in being punctual? Introducing the late John Kelly,” he quotes from an article by Dudycha, “A Qualitative Study of Punctuality,” published […]
A faculty recital, “Music of the Reformation 1517-2017,” will be presented at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, at Ripon College. Admission is free and open to the public. The performers will be Sarah Mahler Kraaz, professor of music and college organist, organ and piano; John […]
On Oct. 28, Amy Fels ’16, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Associate Professor of History Rebecca Matzke will present on a panel at the “World War 100: A Centennial Symposium” in Madison. Fels will discuss “Oshkosh on the Home Front: Activities and Attitudes During World War I,” based on research she […]
Guy McHendry ’06 of Omaha, Nebraska, was interviewed by WJLA, an ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., about Colin Kaepernick’s court filing this week to prove NFL team owners are conspiring to keep him off the field because of his protests during the playing of the national anthem. McHendry is an assistant professor of communication studies […]
“Civil Rights at Ripon in the 1960s and Today,” a panel discussion about Ripon College’s conflicted involvement in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, will begin at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 23 in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the campus. The presentation is co-sponsored by the Center for Politics and the People, and the […]
Professor of Biology George “Skip” Wittler will give a special talk for the Department of Biology Friday, Sept. 29. All are welcome to attend. Wittler’s talk, “Discovering the Prairie,” will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall 130. The talk is part of the Biology Senior Studies program.
Two sociology graduates recently were published in the Wisconsin Sociological Association’s journal Sociological Imagination. Holly Kortemeier ’15 of Whitewater, Wisconsin, published “Pupils to Peers: Socializing Graduate Students to the Counseling Profession”; and Kyle Novack ’15 of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, published “ ‘There’s a Future Inmate’: How Criminals and Potential Criminals are Otherized by Law Enforcement […]
Joe Hatcher, professor of psychology at Ripon College, will speak about his sabbatical research Wednesday, Sept. 27, at Ripon College. His talk, “A Community Like Any Other? Positive Psychology Goes to the Nursing Home” will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall. The talk is open to the public. This is a […]
Professor of Politics and Government and Dean of Faculty Ed Wingenbach gave an invited plenary talk to the 2017 Conference of the German Society for Phenomenological Research, held at the University of Hagen in Germany. The title of his talk was “Populism, Partisan Identity, and the Reconstruction of the Political.”
The widely acclaimed comedy play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, by Christopher Durang, will open the 2017-18 theatre season at Ripon College. It is one of the most lauded and beloved Broadway plays of recent years. Some of the show’s elements are humorous adaptations of themes from works of Anton Chekhov. Vanya and […]
Associate Professor of Spanish Timothy Reed’s love of Spanish, literature and culture all came together in his recent work. Reed was asked to be the editor for a compilation of dramas by Spanish playwright, Federico García Lorca, published in the European Masterpieces series of Cervantes & Co. European Masterpieces Spanish Classics Series. “Bodas de sangre, […]
Professor of Biology Robert Wallace will give a special talk for the Department of Biology Friday, Sept. 15. All are welcome to attend. Wallace’s talk, “The Study of Dust: An Application of the Liberal Arts and Sciences,” will begin at 2:30 p.m. in Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall 130.
How demographic biases affect prison sentencing was the summer research project for McNair Scholar Gillian Jackson ’18 of Putnam, Connecticut. She worked under the guidance of Kristine Kovack-Lesh, associate professor of psychology. “I felt like she was the person who would push me the most to be the best I can,” Jackson says. In her […]
One year ago, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences Andrea Young was approached to solve a problem. Stephanie Prellwitz, executive director of the Green Lake Association, wanted to find a way to preserve and promote the health of Green Lake. This summer, two students, Mitra Kermani ’20 and Antony Gradillas ’19, have been researching how to […]
Mishan Han, adjunct instructor of music at Ripon College, will present a faculty violin recital at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10. The recital will be in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, and admission is free. Among his selections are: Praeludium & Allegro, “Caprice Viennois,” Op. 2, and other works by Fritz […]
The effects of oxidative stress on protein structure was the summer research of Eva Schaible ’19 of Green Bay, Wisconsin. She collaborated with Professor of Chemistry Colleen Byron. “Numerous processes that produce energy in a human cell involve the transfer of electrons from one protein in the cell to another,” Byron says. “In the oxygenated […]
Her summer work researching facial expressions will be a step toward her goal for Olivia Heck ’19 of Waukesha, Wisconsin. Heck aspires to be a behavioral psychologist or to work in some area of social psychology. “I have been researching how the effects of gender, race and facial expression influence the perceptions of target faces,” […]