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! […]
Two exhibits running at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac have ties to Ripon College. “Rafael Francisco Salas: Salvage and Sky” features of the work of Salas, associate professor of art. He combines landscape, the legacy of Byzantine iconography, portraiture, architecture and country music into artwork that evokes a strange, […]
Robert Amsden, professor of theatre and the Doreen L. ’73 and David I. Chemerow Chair in Theatre, received the Regional Faculty Service Award for Wisconsin at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 3, in Indianapolis in January. Amsden has been associated with the festival since 1978 and initiated Ripon College’s participation in the […]
Steve Martin, associate professor of communication and chair of the Department, has a chapter in a book that became available Friday, Jan. 20. “Debunking Hitler: True Comics as Counter-Propaganda” is Chapter 9 in the book The 10 Cent War: Books, Propaganda, and World War II, published by The University Press of Mississippi. It is available […]
An opinion piece by President Zach Messitte was published Jan. 17 by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The inauguration speech Trump won’t make” addresses Messitte’s views of issues and statements Trump might apologize for and how this could make the country better. “We have important work to do together to continue to make America great,” Messitte […]
Mary Avery, professor of business management emerita and a certified management consultant, has received the 2016 Distinguished Woman of the Year Award from the Ripon-Green Lake Chapter of Women in Management. The award is given to a woman who demonstrates commitment to her career goals and professional growth; exhibits the characteristics of a mentor to […]
An opinion piece by Jack Christ, emeritus professor and director of Leadership Studies, was published Jan.10 by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He discusses the “disastrous consequences” that could ensue with some Americans denying a lot of what trained scientists and educated citizens understand about a range of important issues. “Now we are pondering life in […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers, under the direction of John C. Hughes, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities, will take to the road for a four-city tour of the Midwest. Performances will be at: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, at First Congregational Church, 220 Ransom St., Ripon, Wisconsin 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. […]
Associate Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas was featured Tuesday in an interview on WUWM, Milwaukee Public Radio. He discusses his current projects on view through late February in the exhibit “Pastoral Testimony” at Latino Arts, 1028 S. Ninth St., Milwaukee. The interview can be accessed here.
President Zach Messitte contributed to an opinion piece that was published Friday, Dec. 16, in The Baltimore Sun. “Look to Agnew for insight to Trump” compares some of the current president-elect’s reactions with those of Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon’s vice president, who resigned the position in 1973. The three authors, who are researching a […]
Ripon College Choral Union will perform Sunday, Dec. 4, on the campus. The concert will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the campus. There is no admission charge, and it is open to the public. Selections include: “Awake the Harp” from “The Creation,” by Haydn; “Song […]
Henrik Schatzinger, associate professor of politics and government and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, was featured in a radio interview on WFDL the morning after the Nov. 8 elections. Listen to the interview between Greg Stensland and Schatzinger here.
The 60-piece Ripon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directed by Professor of Music Kurt Dietrich, will present its fall concert Nov. 20. The program will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, on the campus. The program will feature significant works for band from the 20th and 21st centuries. […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers will perform Nov. 18 on the campus. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public. The program will include four psalm settings from both the Christian and Jewish traditions; and “Ubi Caritas” from […]
“What Happened in the Elections?”, a panel reflecting on the recent national elections, will be held Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Ripon College. The program will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, and is sponsored by the Center for Politics and the People. All are welcome to attend. The panelists will discuss […]
“What’s the Role of Music in Renaissance Art?”, a webinar offered by Associated Colleges of the Midwest, will be presented at noon Thursday by Sarah Kraaz, professor of music, chair of the department and college organist. The webinar will discuss what students might study on the ACM Florence: Arts, Humanities & Culture program. Kraaz is […]
President Zach Messitte had an opinion piece published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Oct. 29. “Clinton’s Appomattox moment” discusses how Hillary Clinton, should she be elected president Nov. 8, should remind us with clear action that we all are Americans and need to work together to make our country more perfect. “After a brutal campaign […]
“Kaepernick’s Stand: Patriotism, Protest, and Professional Sports” is a recent article by Guy McHendry ’06, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska; and Steve Martin, associate professor of communication at Ripon College. It was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. The complete citation and online copy […]