Travis Nygard, associate professor of art, was featured on a news report Thursday on the television station Fox 11 News. The segment can be viewed here. The report is about a table hand-crafted in Ripon in 1892-93. The Ripon Historical Society is raising $3,000 to cover the cost of purchasing the table from a Seattle […]
Geoff Guevara-Geer, associate professor of Spanish, had an article published in the November 2021 issue of the journal Chasqui, meaning an Inca messenger, in Volume 50, Number 2. “The relación between Hispanics, the Body, and American University: Genre Trouble in Spanglish and Real Women Have Curves” discusses Latina college applicants as they write their Personal […]
Adjunct Instructor of Digital Art Christopher T. Wood is a candidate for the prestigious Pfister Hotel Artist-in-Residence in Milwaukee. Candidates for the award will have their work on display in the Pfister during Gallery Night and Day in Milwaukee from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Jan. 21. The Pfister Hotel Artist-In-Residence program has been recognized locally, nationally […]
Research by Erin K. Bryan, assistant professor of music and voice area coordinator, has been selected for a poster paper presentation at the 2022 National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Conference in Chicago in July. The research is on the final Neapolitan operas of Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774). While many of the composer’s instrumental pieces […]
Ripon Hall of Fame Coach Bob Gillespie will be inducted into Lewis University’s Academy of Coaches. He will be honored with three others during halftime of the Lewis University men’s basketball game Saturday, Jan. 15. Gillespie is the winningest coach in Ripon College history in both baseball and men’s basketball, with a combined record of […]
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Seale Doss has two recent novels that are available on amazon.com. The character of Phillip Dee from Doss’ 2018 novel Blood on the Risers returns in both. The novel Hattie’s Pink House is described: “At one time, Hattie’s was a famous Texas whorehouse, located just outside the Austin city limits, featuring […]
Andrew Prellwitz, associate librarian-user services and director of Lane Library, is serving as the president of the Ripon Public Library Board. The board is launching a $1 million campaign to renovate a wing of the library as well as to provide outdoor public spaces adjacent to the building and Silver Creek. Prellwitz also is chairing […]
A book with a chapter by Professor of History Brian Bockelman made “The Shortlist” of readings recommended by The New York Times on Dec. 3, 2021. Bockelman’s contribution to Mapping Nature Across the Americas (Chicago, 2021) is “Palms and Other Trees on Maps: Exoticism, Error, and Environment, from Old World to New.” Research for the […]
Travis Nygard, associate professor of art history and co-director of the Caestecker Gallery, has published the article “Complex Maya Computations: Math, Time, Astronomy, and Hieroglyphs” in the Dakota Digital Review, journal published by the North Dakota University System. “The article compares ancient Maya thinking to the digital world of today,” Nygard says. “It explores how […]
“A Woman’s Love and Life,” a faculty recital with Assistant Professor of Music Erin Bryan, soprano, and Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie, piano, will be held at 4:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, at Ripon College. The program will feature Robert Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und Leben […]
Steve R. Sorenson, adjunct professor of politics and government and a local Ripon attorney, has received the Wisconsin Law Foundation’s 2021 Charles L. Goldberg Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes a lifetime of service to the profession and the community. An announcement published by the State Bar of Wisconsin says that after Sorenson graduated from […]
Nicholas Eastman, assistant professor of educational studies, and Ethan Hansen ’23 of Raymond, Wisconsin, collaborated for an article in the forthcoming issue of the academic journal Education & Culture, the journal of the John Dewey Society. The article is titled “Classroom Exchanges: Big Data and the Commodification of Educational Communication.” Eastman and Hansen also presented […]
Memuna Khan, professor of biology, and several students published a paper in the August 2021 issue of the journal Northeastern Naturalist. “Do We Impact Neighboring Nests When Managing for House Sparrows on Nest-Box Trails?” featured work by Micaela M. Rivera ’21 of River Falls, Wisconsin; Max Mindiola ’20 of East Troy, Wisconsin; Erin Engstrom ’20 […]
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas was among five authors profiled on Wisconsin Public Radio Nov. 12. Salas is a contributor to the book Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic, edited by B.J. Hollars, published by Wisconsin History Press and available on amazon.com. Other contributors include Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly, […]
“Dispatch from the Domestic Interior,” a poem by Associate Professor of English Megan Gannon, was included in the art exhibition “Claiming Space: A New Century of Visionary Women” at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend. The exhibit ran July 24 through Oct. 3, 2021. “Claiming Space” celebrated MOWA’s 60th anniversary and its visionary […]
Kurt Dietrich, professor emeritus of music and former Barbara Baldwin DeFrees Chair in the Performing Arts at Ripon College, will discuss his work on the history of jazz in Wisconsin Thursday, Nov. 18, for the Ripon Historical Society. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in the historical society museum, 508 Watson St. It is […]
Director Emeritus Robert Amsden discussed an upcoming Ripon College theatre production Monday on Hometown Broadcasting and The Wave – 93.1FM & 1600AM. A recording of the radio interview can be heard here. The production of Zoe Kazan’s play “After the Blast” will be presented Oct. 14-17 by the Ripon College Department of Theatre. Performances begin […]
Research from a 2020 paper on dog empathy, “A shoulder to cry on: Heart rate variability and empathetic behavioral responses to crying and laughing in dogs,” written by Associate Professor of Psychology Julia Meyers-Manor, was cited in an article published Oct. 1 on nationalgeographic.com. The article, “Yes, dogs can ‘catch’ their owners’ emotions,” discusses research […]
Ripon College President Zach Messitte announced today that he will leave his position at the end of the fall 2021 semester and return to his hometown of Washington, D.C. Messitte became the 13th president of the 170-year-old institution in 2012. “I have loved being the president of Ripon College and feel honored that the Board […]
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas has an essay in the newly published anthology Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic. The collection is edited by B.J. Hollars and published by Wisconsin History Press. Contributors include Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly, former poet laureates Margaret Rozga and Kimberly Blaeser, and other lauded […]
Seventeen students collaborated with Professor of Chemistry Joe Scanlon and Associate Professor of Chemistry Patrick Willoughby on ground-breaking research that resulted in a published article this summer. The article was published in Journal of Organic Chemistry and addresses the discovery of a new chemical reaction, the aryne-Abramov reaction. It also details how Scanlon, Willoughby and […]