Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and former Vice President and Dean of Faculty David Seligman has published an essay, “The Catch and Release Conundrum,” in Hunting and the Ivory Tower: Essays by Scholars Who Hunt. The book was published this year by the University of South Carolina Press. It includes essays by 17 hunter-scholars who explore […]
Savannah White ’19 of Carol Stream, Illinois, and Diana Meredith ’20 of Los Altos, California, recently presented “The Effects of Social Media Framing on Self-Esteem” in the annual Ripon College Senior Psychology Research Symposium. Participants in the pair’s study first were separated by males and females. One potential condition saw images presented with the Instagram […]
College Consensus ranks Ripon College on its Top 50 list of Most Innovative Colleges. Ripon is recognized for its 20-credit applied innovation Catalyst curriculum and its dedication to bringing Career and Professional Development resources into all four years of a student’s time on campus. Ripon is just one of three schools in Wisconsin to make […]
Seven Ripon College students have been nominated to perform audition pieces for the American College Theatre Festival, Region 3, to be held Jan. 8 to 13 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison College and Edgewood College. Students are nominated on the basis of a performance in a play. Two winners from each of the eight […]
A favorite high school teacher alerted Joseph Sandrin ’73 to the possibility of attending Ripon College. “Her son was attending Ripon, and the school just clicked when I visited,” Sandrin says. Sandrin majored in chemistry at Ripon and did graduate studies in organic chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He works in Saudi Arabia as […]
Ripon College proved to be an intimate home away from home for Lindsey Kreye Heil ’07. When looking for colleges, she says, “I wanted to go to school somewhere away from home, but not too far. I grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota, about 300 miles from Ripon. Not only was Ripon away from home, but […]
Eddie Lowry, the Marie Zarwell Uihlein Chair in Classical Studies, gave a one-hour presentation on “Exclusus Amator: The Lover Shut Out” at the Latin sessions of the annual conference of the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers (WAFLT) in Appleton Nov. 2. The content of this Roman culture presentation supported the conference’s general foreign language […]
“Leadership through the Eyes of MLK” will be the keynote event for Ripon College’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Week, featuring events held in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2019. Samuel A. Alford, aka IAm, an artist, activist and Milwaukee native, will be the keynote speaker. The event will be held […]
Ripon College has been named the No. 4 school in Wisconsin for health and wellness majors. The study, using data collected by the United States Department of Education, was published by Zippia, a website dedicated to helping recent graduates with their career choices. The report can be accessed here. Zippia says they used College Scorecard […]
Paul Hausch ’13 of Madison, Wisconsin, is one of five students nationwide to be selected to have design work included in the exhibition “The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility” at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. The exhibit will run from Dec. 14 through March 31, 2019. It will feature 40 projects that […]
Khun Maung ’19 of Yangon, Myanmar; Karma Gurung ’19 of Kathmandu, Nepal; Oscar Arzate ’19 of Chicago, Illinois; and Ermias Woldu ’19 of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, represented Ripon College at The Commons Hack-It Bracket, sponsored by Sartori Cheese in Sheboygan on Nov. 17. The Commons is a collaboration between Wisconsin colleges and universities, Wisconsin businesses […]
Sarah Mahler Kraaz, professor of music, College organist and the William Harley Barber Distinguished Professor, has edited the book Music and War in the United States, published by Routledge. The book is intended as a textbook for college courses and general readership. The 18 chapters were written by scholars in the United States and Canada […]
The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble will perform Friday, Dec. 14, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. Jazz from the 1940s to the present will be featured in the wide-ranging program. Among the selections […]
Rebecca Matzke, professor of history and associate dean for faculty development, had recent professional activities. She presented a paper, “Britain’s Great War Naval Propaganda: A Campaign to Create a ‘Special Relationship,’” at the Southern Conference on British Studies, Nov. 9, 2018, in Birmingham, Alabama. She also wrote a historical piece for the Oshkosh Northwestern newspaper […]
A feature story about volunteer work leading to a career for Mike Romagnoli ’04 was published Dec. 3 by Illinois State University, where he received a master’s degree in Spanish. At Ripon College, Romagnoli majored in Spanish and political science and minored in anthropology. The article “Volunteer work directs career path for Illinois State alum” […]
When the body of the late President George H.W. Bush was received at Joint Base Andrews earlier this week, helping to receive him was a former fishing buddy, Drew Davis ’07. “His warmth, kindness, generosity, civility, service and grace must now live on through all of us,” Davis says. Davis majored in religion and politics […]
Being a student-athlete was important to Jeri Belongia Loewe ’96 of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and it brought her here to Ripon College. “Ripon was close to home, and Coach Julie Johnson sold me!” Loewe says. “Her energy and passion made me want to be on her teams. I later learned that her leadership and […]
A holiday concert by all the musical ensemble of Ripon College will be presented at 3:15 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in the field house of Willmore Center. Admission is free and open to the public. Chamber Singers will sing “O Magnum Mysterium,” by Tomás Luis Victoria; “A Winter Landscape,” by Lane Johnson; and “Deck the […]
A team of Ripon College faculty has received a National Science Foundation grant of $297,715 for the project “Building Capacity for Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoning Instruction.” The grant award, number DUE-1822414, is funded through the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources solicitation. Principal investigators of the project are Andrea Young, special assistant to the […]
Bill Quistorf ’80 of Everett, Washington, chief pilot with the Snohomish County Helicopter Rescue Team in Washington state, was a recipient of the German-American Friendship Award, presented this month by Honorary German Consul Uli Fischer. Quistorf was among the crew who rescued a stranded hiker and German citizen on the Pacific Crest Trail on Oct. […]