Several upcoming events continue the celebration of Women’s History Month at Ripon College, sponsored by Student Activities. On Wednesday, March 11, the documentary film “Miss Representation” will be shown at 5:30 p.m. in the Dahm Heritage Room, S.N. Pickard Commons. Discussion will follow about the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in […]
I was born in the USSR and grew up as that country was collapsing and Ukraine was establishing its independence. While I’ve been living in the United States for many years now, I still have family in Ukraine, and the last year has definitely not been an easy one for them or for me. Whenever […]
Fiction writer Rebecca Rotert, the author of Last Night at the Blue Angel, will give a reading from her work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Lane Library on the Ripon College campus, 300 Seward St. Admission is free. Her visit is sponsored by the College’s Visiting Writers Series. Rotert received a master’s degree […]
Bob Wallace, professor of biology, participated in a workshop entitled, “Cryptic speciation in Brachionus plicatilis: A workshop to describe species within the complex” at the University of Texas at El Paso from August 5-10, 2014. In this workshop, 26 individuals from around the world participated in the analysis of this single species of rotifer — […]
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 criticizing President Obama’s national security strategy that was published by U.S. News & World Report. Click here to read the full article. He writes that with President […]
The effects of modern technology on higher education and libraries will be addressed Thursday, Feb. 26, at Ripon College by a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. William Y. Arms of Cornell University will take part in a roundtable discussion, “Libraries in a Digital Age,” at 2 p.m. in the North Reading Room of Lane Library […]
Ripon College will bring Euripides’ prize-winning classical tragedy, Iphigenia at Aulis, March 4-7. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The script is Professor Robert Amsden’s adaptation of Robert Meagher’s 1991 translation. Amsden, the play’s director, chose the translation for playability, accessible contemporary language and succinctness. The […]
Chemistry-biology major Raymond Allen ’15 and Assistant Professor of Biology Barbara Sisson braved the chilly temperatures early February to take tissue samples of registered sturgeon on Lake Winnebago. It was the opening day of sturgeon-spearing season. They ran into John Luthens, who writes for On Wisconsin Outdoors, and he included the encounter in his story. […]
Ripon College has received a supplemental funding grant of $6,250 from the National Science Foundation to support summer research by a student. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant is supplemental to an NSF grant received earlier by Bob Wallace, Patricia and Philip McCullough 1969 Professor in Biology; and a major research instrumentation grant received […]
All you need is love. The sentiment of this bumper-sticker lyric of the Beatles also is repeated by the most profound mystics, by experimental subjects ingesting psychedelics while facing terminal illness, by poets and writers, and even by astronauts viewing the earth from outer space. Can science tell us anything about Love that these other […]
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 criticizing President Obama’s foreign policy positions that was published by U.S. News & World Report. Click here to read the full article. Calling it “a foreign policy […]
In my position at Ripon College, I teach courses with names like Major Author: Shakespeare andFoundations of English Literature — courses focused on the time-tested canon of early British literature. Yet, as a graduate student at the University of Iowa, I wrote a dissertation on the ways that some contemporary theater companies use Shakespeare’s plays […]
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 Islamic extremism that was published by U.S. News & World Report. Click here to read the full article. In “This is War: The Obama Administration needs […]
Associate Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department Steve Martin wrote an article for the journal Voices of Democracy about the formation of the Congress of Industrial Organization and how it was influenced and shaped by the actions of John L. Lewis. The article, published in 2013, was titled “John L. Lewis, ‘Speech at […]
Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Henrik Schatzinger was quoted in a Politifact article examining the outlook of Governor Scott Walker’s second term. According to Schatzinger, despite the fact that Walker’s party gained seats in both the Republican-controlled Assembly and the Senate some challenges and “tough choices” remain for the second-term governor of Wisconsin. “Walker’s […]
Brazilian Ambassador to the United States Mauro Vieira was named on New Year’s Eve to be the new Brazilian Foreign Minister, the government’s official news agency said. Ripon College President Zach Messitte interviewed Vieira in February 2012 as host of the award-winning radio program “World Views,” syndicated on National Public Radio. Vieira discussed his country’s […]
This week marks the 155th birthday of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the leading figures in the women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century. She headed the successful effort to secure passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Afterward, she founded the League of Women Voters. She was born Carrie Clinton Lane […]
In “The Next Secretary’s Task,” published in Defense News, Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of politics and government and interim director of the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College, discusses the recent resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and makes a case that restoring U.S. maritime power to its position […]
Lamont Colucci, associate professor and chair of politics and government and interim director of the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College, published an opinion editorial in The Washington Times titled “Red Puritanism.” Colucci’s editorial describes “a new religion (that) has swept the western world and is changing the outcome of all levels […]
Assistant Professor of English Megan Gannon has published a book of poetry, White Nightgown, which is available from Apprentice House Press (https://www.apprenticehouse.com/?product=white-nightgown-poems). From the ruins of ocean liners and model cities, to the dark impulses of Greek myths and biblical narratives, Gannon casts a wide thematic net in tracing the legacy of desire in the […]