Rhetorical criticism skills learned as a communication major helped Alison Thiel, a senior from Ripon, Wisconsin, develop findings that display a shift in the dominance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis in Western Culture through the pictorial representation of sea turtles by National Geographic. Thiel, who also had a second major in environmental studies, says […]
Chapter 1: Preparing for the Semester and the Future [Editor’s Note: Chuchen Tan ’16, Sara Driebel ’16, and Jacob Sahr ’16 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] As summer is drawing to a close, I am […]
Chapter 1: Becoming an Alumna [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Happy summer! I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather wherever this wonderful […]
Obesity prevention is a great interest of Stephanie Alvarez ’16, a psychology major from Chicago, Illinois, because of today’s high rates of obesity in children and adolescents. “My curiosity led me to study college student eating habits in relation to parenting styles and accessibility of healthy food,” she says. Alvarez is part of the McNair […]
Katie Warczak ’16 of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, first read “Smoke, Lilies and Jade” during an English class taught by Assistant Professor of English Mary Unger at Ripon College. The controversial short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Richard Bruce Nugent was published in the magazine Fire!!! in 1926. When she read the story again — in an […]
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 […]
Chapter 1: The Start of an Eventful Summer [Editor’s Note: Chuchen Tan ’16, Sara Driebel ’16, and Jacob Sahr ’16 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] Dear Ripon College Alumni and Friends, A big “Hello” from […]
Chapter 1: Nostalgia [Editor’s Note: Raymond Allen ’15, Karena Schroeder ’15, and Madeline Poullette ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their post-graduation experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life After Ripon!] Nostalgia. If you take this word and smash it really hard with a grammar hammer, you’ll […]
Last summer, Nicholas Luedtke ’16, a chemistry major from Appleton, Wisconsin, was accepted into a two-year research program through Princeton University focused on the upcoming field of molecular biophysics. He worked with post-doctoral and graduate students in the chemical and biological engineering department. “They gave me the opportunity to know first-hand what it’s like to […]
Young Arab Christian and Muslim peace ambassadors from Israel will share their dreams of a peaceful future during a talk at Ripon College on Thursday. The talk will begin at 10:45 a.m. in Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall of Science on the campus. The visiting students are juniors and seniors at Mar Elias High School in […]
Coming from the small town of Tomahawk, Wisconsin, and being a prospective first-generation college student, RaeAnn Brixius ’16 faced many challenges, both financial and in her world-view. “My dad is a welder, my mom is a Realtor and with the low market she has a lot of really small sales,” Brixius says. “She never knows […]
When Jordan Buhle looks at the world around her, “it’s so complex and beautiful and ordered,” she says. “With chemistry, I’m able to look at those tiny complexities of the world, understand how they work and try to manipulate them. Sometimes it feels like a giant puzzle or a big mystery, but it fascinates me.” […]
Chapter 4: Reflections of a Red Hawk [Editor’s Note: Clarence Sanon ’15, Rachel Detrie ’15, and Kaitlyn Welzen ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] Readers, As I close the chapter of my life titled, “The […]
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 popular The Hunger Games franchise provided recent graduate Zachary Conners of Hollandale, Wisconsin, with a focus for his senior seminar topic. Conners’ research investigates how socioeconomic status determines deviance in The Hunger Games universe, and how deviance and disability are linked. In The Hunger Games series, there are those with a high social and […]
For the second time in her distinguished Ripon College career, Jenna Breaker is a national champion. The recent graduate won her most recent championship Saturday in the high jump at the 2015 Outdoor Nationals in Canton, New York. She won the 2013 Indoor National Championship in the same event. Saturday’s meet, which was hosted by […]
Chapter 4: Looking Forward, Looking Back [Editor’s Note: Rachel Detrie ’15, Clarence Sanon ’15 , and Kaitlyn Welzen ’15 are writing rotating monthly entries for the Ripon College Newsletter chronicling their senior year experiences. We hope you enjoy their perspectives on Life At Ripon!] It is finally May and, as I’m writing this, it is […]
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 […]
Considering that she is arguably the fastest player on Ripon College’s softball team, ranking in the program’s top 10 for career stolen bases, Korrine Peterson’s Red Hawks career got off to a slow start. With just minutes remaining in the final practice before the team’s season-opening game during her freshman year, Peterson broke her ankle […]
The Ripon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble will present an outdoor Pops Concert Wednesday, May 6. The concert will begin at 5 p.m. on the lawn in front of Harwood Memorial Union. The concert is free and open to the public, and attendees may sit on the lawn and bring blankets and dinner. […]