On a sunny Mother’s Day afternoon, Ripon College celebrated its 151st Commencement and the graduation of the Class of 2017. This year’s theme, Wisconsin Food and Entrepreneurship, honored the state’s commitment to food that contributes to its distinctive food culture and identity. The two honorary degree recipients were Craig Culver, co-founder of the Culver’s restaurant […]
Brian Smith, professor of religion, presented the talk “Nourishing the Mind” at Ripon College’s Baccalaureate program May 13, 2017. Following is the text of his presentation: This year, the theme for Commencement is “Wisconsin Food and Entrepreneurship.” We recognize the commitment to food that contributes to the state’s distinctive identity. The College will be bestowing […]
The first Rally Awards sports recognition event was held May 2 as a spinoff of the ESPYs awards. Winona Holmes Robbins ’17 of Birmingham, Alabama,senior swimmer and president of Ripon’s Student-Athlete Leadership Team (SALT), was the master of ceremonies for the event. Rally winners included: Staff Spirit Award: Professor of Economics Paul Schoofs. Comeback Athlete: […]
The 2017 Awards Convocation was held Wednesday, April 19, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Jeanne F. Williams, professor of educational studies, gave the convocation address, “Private Choices and the Public Good.” Award recipients included: Rachel J. Steiner ’17 of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Achievement Award in Anthropology Alexandria J. Wilber ’17 of […]
The art exhibit “The Press Corps: Ways of Seeing” will open at 7 p.m. Friday, April 14. The opening will begin at 7 p.m. at 314: Ripon College Project Space in downtown Ripon. Light refreshments will be served. The show will run through May 6. The artists are Lee Shippey, retired as art department assistant […]
Rebecca Matzke, associate professor of history, published a column in the Oshkosh Northwestern Sunday, April 9. The article, “100 years ago, Oshkosh went to war” details the history of Wisconsin’s involvement in World War I. Matzke writes, “Most Wisconsinites supported neutrality. Partly this was due to the state’s wide range of political movements and parties, […]
Henrik Schatzinger, associate professor of politics and government, will give a Faculty Scholarship Series presentation April 11. The presentation will run from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Todd Wehr 104. Schatzinger will address “How Does Lobbying Affect Federal Contracts?” His research is being done with Aaron Dusso, of Indiana University-Purdue University, and Thomas T. […]
Mary I. Unger, assistant professor of English and managing editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to conduct research this summer. The Summer Stipends award will support Unger’s project, “Cultures of Reading in the Black Chicago Renaissance.” She describes the […]
Steven Miller, visiting professor of philosophy, has an opinion piece published in Times Higher Education. In Miller’s piece, he relates that when he talks about death in his classes, for many their own deaths seem “part of the way-off and thus not-real future.” But then a student on campus killed himself. “Few occurrences rock a […]
Rebecca Matzke, associate professor of history and associate dean for faculty development, will give a talk this evening at the Oshkosh Public Library. “World War I: The War that Shaped a Century” will begin at 6 p.m. as part of the Oshkosh World War I Centennial Commemoration.
“Women in Numbers,” a panel discussion about recent marches supporting women’s issues, will run from 4:15-5:15 p.m. March 28 in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the Ripon College campus. Panelists will include: Michele Wittler, registrar and associate dean of faculty; Sophie Widman ’18, of Boulder Creek, California; Sarah Frohardt-Lane, assistant professor of history; and […]
Laura Deming, a cellist with Chicago’s Lyric Opera for 41 years, and director of the Green Lake Festival of Music, will present a short program called “The Voice of the Cello” on Sunday, April 2. The program will begin at 3:15 p.m. at 314: Ripon College Project Space in downtown Ripon. Deming will play a […]
Rebecca Matzke, associate dean for faculty development and associate professor of history, wrote an article about World War I that was just published in the spring issue of the Oshkosh Public Museum’s quarterly magazine The Muse. The article, “The Great War,” also is linked to the Oshkosh Public Museum website.
On March 3 and 4, three students, an alumna and Professor of Religion Brian Smith attended the annual Midwest American Academy of Religion (MAAR) meeting in Muncie, Indiana. This is the regional section of the national American Academy of Religion, the professional association of Religious Studies scholars in the United States. There were more than […]
“Shakespeare’s Sisters: Women Writers Before Austen” will be presented from 10:10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 8, at Bovay’s Study Bar & Mercantile. All are welcome to attend the “Before Austen” course to celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Students of Ann Pleiss Morris, assistant professor of English, are writing their own scripts […]
William Shakespeare’s famous tragicomedy “Measure for Measure” will be presented by the Ripon College Depart of Theatre March 1-4. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the campus. The Bard’s landmark tragicomedy of deception and sexual blackmail stretches from the brothel to the prison to the […]
Sarah Mahler Kraaz, professor of music and college organist, has received a contract from Routledge (Taylor and Francis group) to edit a volume, Music and War in the United States. Seventeen scholars from the United States and Canada each will write a chapter on music in the military and domestic music during conflicts in which […]
A launch party Feb. 14 will kick off Ripon College’s new downtown venture, Bovay’s Study Bar & Mercantile, 329 Watson St. The play “The Vagina Monologues” will be a highlight. Doors will open at 5 p.m., and the show will begin at 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by the […]
Twelve students and Associate Professor of Chemistry Joseph Scanlon participated in the Midwestern Undergraduate Computational Chemistry Consortium (MU3C) Winter Online conference. On Feb. 8, four students presented their research as online posters: Computational Characterization of the Form of Ag(phen) Catalyst for Amination and Aziridination Reactions, presented by Paige Birschbach ’17 of Eden, Wisconsin. She is […]
I began the Infant Cognition Lab (ICL) in the summer of 2008, and for eight years my undergraduate research assistants and I have tested infants between the ages of 14 months and 4 in a variety of studies. In the summer of 2016, we moved into a “new” research world where our participants can talk! […]