Professor of Religion Brian Smith and Associate Professor of History Becky Matzke will serve as co-directors of the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College during the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year. The Center, founded in 2014 with a lead gift from Ripon College Trustee Bill MacLeod ’73, was created to promote constructive political […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, published an opinion piece on NationalReview.com. In “Will Obama Allow ISIS to Have Chemical Weapons, Too?”, Colucci questions President Obama’s stance on ISIS using chemical weapons, citing his previous failure with Syria. “It has been well-documented that the Assad regime in Syria used […]
Associate Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas had two reviews published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in July. The reviews address two different displays on the Wisconsin Museum of Art in West Bend, Wisconsin. One is Nathaniel Stern’s “Giverny of the Midwest,” a series of photographic scans printed on watercolor paper. The second is “Wilde’s […]
Probability has gotten a little easier to understand with joint research by Logan Soich ’15 of Franklin, Wisconsin, who majored in economics and mathematics, and Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Chester Ismay. Ismay and Soich worked together to make short videos explaining concepts of probability, created an interactive applet to help students visualize […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of the politics and government department, recently published an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report. In “Extremists Love a Vacuum,” Colucci expresses his concern that the president’s “half-hearted foreign policy” has allowed Islamic extremism to worsen. “It is almost exhausting making a list of every location that […]
Jacqueline Clark, associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, had an opinion piece published in the Wisconsin State Journal. The full piece can be read here. In “Why I almost flew the Confederate flag, and never will,” she discusses her own consideration of displaying the flag at the Southern college she attended, why […]
Associate Professor of Biology Memuna Khan and Tom Schultz, from the Green Lake Association, banded two osprey nestlings in downtown Green Lake Friday. They nest on a light pole in the ballpark off of Lake Street. The event is the result of cooperation between Ripon College, the Green Lake Association and Alliant Energy, who brought […]
Jody Roy, professor of communication and chair of the department, shares her insight on hate as it relates to the recent South Carolina shootings. The piece was published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper and can be read here. Roy compares the hatred and violence that arose with the anti-Catholic movement from the 1830s to […]
Brian Smith, professor of religion and chair of the department, wrote an opinion piece about the recent Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage. It was published in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper and can be read here. “The reactions to the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage have been ones of elation and concern,” Smith […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]