Dan Lornitis, a comedy hypnotist, will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 26, in Great Hall, Harwood Memorial Union, on the Ripon College campus. Lornitis has been mesmerizing audiences for years with his uniquely entertaining performance, where the audience volunteers are the stars! He uses hypnosis to entertain, never to embarrass or humiliate anyone. It’s […]
Two Wisconsin communities 50 miles apart are being brought together by the Joseph Project. Launched in October, the project strives to connect those seeking work in Milwaukee with Sheboygan County employers who need workers. This effort has been part of the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corp.’s Someplace Better initiative. Austin Van Treeck ’14, a Sheboygan […]
Peng “Roc” Huang, associate professor of business and economics, and chair of the economics department, passed the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) level III exam in June and now is a CFA Charterholder. The CFA title is the most prestigious and recognized investment analysis and management designation globally. Since 2013, Huang received a CFA Institute Professor […]
A free sports nutrition workshop will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, in Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall of Science. Lee Hyrkas, a registered dietitian with Bellin Health in Green Bay, will be the presenter. He will address topics related to nutrition and performance. He says nutrition is a critical piece of […]
Brian Smith, professor of religion; Charles and Joan Van Zoeren Chair in Religion, Ethics and Values; chair of the department; and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, had an opinion piece published Friday in the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, Wisconsin. “Who Would Jesus Vote For?” looks at the current presidential race. […]
The Class of 2020 will officially be welcomed to the Ripon College campus during Matriculation Convocation Saturday, Aug. 20. The ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. in Great Hall of the Harwood Memorial Union. New Ripon College students will be presented with a coin during the ceremony. Instituted by President Zach. P. Messitte in 2013, […]
An opinion piece by President Zach Messitte, who also is a professor in the Department of Politics and Government, was published Thursday in The Washington Post. The piece was titled: “Here’s how I’ll teach Trump to my college students this fall: Calling out the candidate’s bigotry without alienating his supporters.” “While professors and administrators need […]
A 35-year member of Ripon College’s German faculty, Dr. James F. Hyde, died Aug. 1 in Ripon, at the age of 83. Hyde started at Ripon as an associate professor of German in 1964. Before he retired in 1999, he extensively developed the college’s German program, serving as department chair and teaching classes in German […]
Getting the chance to travel to a different country for two weeks with one of the best professors and the president of your college is not an opportunity that everyone encounters, so when I learned about the Old Italy, New Italy Liberal Arts in Focus program, I knew I had to take advantage of this […]
Melissa “Missy” Meierhofer ’11, an alumna of Ripon College’s McNair Scholars Program, has been accepted into the Ph.D. program in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. At Ripon, she participated in a research project under the guidance of Associate Professor of Biology Memuna Khan, who studies […]
As a high school student, Josh LeGreve ’09 of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, attended conferences of the Wisconsin Association for Foreign Language Teachers. Little did he know that some years later, he would become the association’s president. Founded in 1913, the WAFLT is one of the oldest educational organizations in Wisconsin. The association hosts conferences, […]
When UW-Extension representative Diana Tscheschlok proposed a significant project to Professor of Business Management Mary Avery, who now is recently retired from Ripon College, Avery knew just the students for the job. UW-Extension is an outreach program offering access to resources and mentors to all Wisconsin campuses. The project was to interview and collect data […]
Robert Malte ’76 of Woodinville, Washington, has been chief executive officer of EvergreenHealth in Kirkland, Washington, since 2010. In a recent issue of 425 Business magazine, Malte was the focus of a feature article about his career path, his current role as CEO and his leadership style that is described as “leading with a human […]
The admirable mission of Love Your Melon, a nonprofit effort to support children affected by cancer, was brought to the Ripon College campus by Kate Cichon ’19 of Menasha, Wisconsin, last year during her freshman year. The student members host events to help raise funds for the organization, sells apparel and provides hats to children […]
Quincy, Massachusetts, is hometown of the United States’ second president, John Adams. It also is the hometown of Daniel Mallock ’86, who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Growing up in a richly historical area sparked Mallock’s interest in John Adams and history overall. At Ripon, Mallock studied history, English and philosophy, and he became interested […]
The common view of hell has evolved and changed over the centuries. For her senior showcase, recent graduate Myat Aung of Yangon, Myanmar, studied part of this evolution. Aung, an art history and classical studies major, examined the influences on William Blake’s depiction of hell in his paintings. Blake, a 19th-century artist and poet, painted […]
Associate Professor of Biology Memuna Khan will band osprey chicks in downtown Green Lake at 8 a.m. Wednesday. The osprey moved to a nesting platform behind the outfield of the Green Lake baseball diamond off of Lake Street. The platform was erected in 2011, but the osprey continued to use the light pole overlooking the […]
Ripon College has received a four-year, $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the implementation of the College’s new core curriculum, Catalyst. Catalyst, which launches with the class entering in fall 2016, places at the center of a Ripon education the continuous development of the intellectual and practical skills valued by employers […]
Eric Fels had early exposure to what Ripon College’s small campus could offer him. During the summer between his junior and senior years of high school, he was able to explore the Ripon campus while he serving as a citizen at the annual Badger Boys State, held each year for the past 75 years on […]
I have been a resident of Ripon since 1984 and an adjunct professor, off & on, since 1992. My focus was business, entrepreneurship, and the relationship of business to society. Recently, I developed a course to introduce students to techniques and styles of management.
My vocation was hospital management, then COO of a 1 million square foot distribution warehouse, and an executive director of a Red Cross Chapter.