“Mexican-American Artist Brings Unique Perspective Of Rural Experience,” a profile about Ripon College Associate Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas, was posted by Wisconsin Life July 9. Salas, who also writes as an art critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper, discusses analyzing his own work, taking inspiration from rural America and his mixed-race identity. […]
Ripon College offered a balance of athletics and academics for Jacob Sumner ’01, allowing him to play soccer and golf while benefiting from a good student/professor class size ratio. He was introduced to the campus by a close family friend, Paul Ranslow, then the president of Ripon College. “I fell in love with Ripon and […]
Josh LeGreve ’09 first became aware of Ripon College when he attended Badger Boys State, the American Legion’s annual outing for Wisconsin high school senior boys that is held each summer on the Ripon College campus. “When I visited later that fall, I fell in love with the small class sizes, the community feeling on […]
With a major in biology and a minor in physics from Ripon College, Katherine Brady ’94 of Tustin, California, went on to receive a master’s degree in environmental studies from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She now is a senior environmental scientist at APTIM, an engineering and construction firm. Her work includes groundwater and soil remediation […]
Although not an athlete, Kent Timm ’81 is a three-time Olympian. As a doctor of physical therapy, he participated in Olympic Games in Atlanta, Australia and Salt Lake City in the sports medicine department. He also has been a sports physical therapist for the Pittsburgh Penguins, athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers and athletic trainer […]
Ornella Umubyeyi ’13 feels that education is the pathway to betterment, and she found empowerment at Ripon College. She was born in Burundi, the second oldest in a family of five children, and came to Ripon College because of a generous scholarship. She majored in religion with a minor in leadership studies. While still a […]
Kevin Kitslaar ’02 was a legacy student. His sister, Jennifer Kitslaar Kahl ’95, attended Ripon College before him. Both from her experiences and from information he learned on a Ripon College tour, Kitslaar was attracted to the opportunity to make close connections to the professors on a smaller campus. “I like the smaller community atmosphere […]
I am a cultural anthropologist with specializations in economic anthropology and the anthropology of money. My ethnographic research and engaged policy work examines the everyday uses of monetary technologies and the shifting relations of money, social inequality, and financial inclusion in Europe, the United States and internationally. I have a B.A. in anthropology and German from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. After receiving my Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Money, Technology, & Financial Inclusion (IMTFI) at the University of California, Irvine. In partnership with IMTFI and the International Currency Association (ICA), I’ve written two white papers on the role and importance of cash in society. I have been a visiting professor of anthropology at Ripon College from 2018-2022 and participated in faculty-student collaborative research for two summers in the Ripon College Summer Opportunity for Advanced Research (SOAR) program. I am now an assistant professor of anthropology.
Learning how to lead confidently and pursue myriad opportunities were benefits of a Ripon College education for Rose Hogmire ’18. Hogmire majored in economics as well as politics and government. She interned twice at the U.S. Senate focusing on health care, and interned at a large Twin Cities education nonprofit in government relations and corporate […]
“My family has a long and rich history with Ripon, having had many members prior to me attend, and my dad, Chuck Larson, was a coach and professor,” says Charlie Larson ’00. “However, that didn’t make it an automatic that I was going to attend Ripon. I looked at a number of other liberal arts […]
The Wisconsin Symphonic Winds, made up of wind, brass and percussion players from this area of the state, will perform a family concert Saturday, June 30, as part of the Green Lake Festival of Music. The concert will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts at Ripon College. […]
Environmental endeavors are a determined focus for Kaitlyn Welzen ’15. She majored in environmental studies and Spanish at Ripon College, with a minor in sociology. She served as a sustainability intern for Sodexo, winning the National Sodexo Service Award, and she led the effort to construct and implement a campus hoop house on lower campus […]
The small, personalized setting of Ripon College brought Zach Schmidt ’17 to the Ripon College campus, and the myriad opportunities to get involved captivated him as he progressed through his education. “The small but personable academic setting was one of the biggest reasons I chose Ripon,” Schmidt says. “I knew I was someone who would […]
As the assistant swimming and diving coach at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, Winona Holmes Robbins ’17 is finding several aspects of her Ripon College education are influencing the work that she does. “The largest aspects of my job are recruiting for the women’s team and assisting the head coach in running practices and meet […]
When William Ainslie ’79 first came to Ripon College, he was an aspiring pre-med student majoring in biology. But two summers attending the Wilderness Field Station near Ely, Minnesota, “were transformative,” he says. “My experience at the field station changed my interest and my focus and influenced my eventual career. “I discovered … that the […]
“Paul Revere and the roots of American culture,” an opinion piece by Lamont Colucci, associate professor of politics and government, was published June 13, 2018, on AMI Newswire. Colucci writes, “American cultural myths are an important part of American nationhood especially at a time those values are under siege.” He says that modern historians “seem […]
The small size of Ripon College and the ability to access hands-on laboratory training attracted Jenan Jamal Kharbush ’09 to Ripon College. “After attending an overcrowded high school, I loved the idea of attending a small college, with small class sizes,” she says. “I knew I wanted to major in a STEM field, and at […]
A transfer to Ripon College to complete studies as an athletic trainer has fulfilled the career ambitions of Jason Nuttall ’04 of Mauston, Wisconsin. After majoring in exercise science with a minor in biology, Nuttall now is a licensed athletic trainer at Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston. “My first year of college, I attended […]
Timothy Haney ’03, a sociology professor and director of the Centre for Community Disaster Research at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and his wife, Sara Wichlacz Haney ’04, were featured in an article June 19, 2018, in the Calgary Herald. “Disaster chose Prof. Haney, not the other way around” details how his career […]
When deciding where she wanted to go to school, “Ripon College just felt right” for Elizabeth “Lizzie” Brown ’13. “At the time, I was deciding between Ripon College and a state school in Wisconsin,” she says. “The other school had a lot of options with regards to clubs, programs, spaces and places to get involved; […]