RIPON — Torrin A. Greathouse, author of the award-winning poetry collection “Wound from the Mouth of a Wound,” will read from her work Wednesday, April 12, at Ripon College. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the MLK Lounge, Harwood Memorial Union, on the campus. The reading is free and open to the public. […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers will participate in several activities this spring. Choral Festival and concert: A Choral Festival will be held Tuesday, March 21, at the College. Eighty high school students from five schools — Ripon, Waupun, Sheboygan North, Little Chute and Cedar Grove-Belgium — will be hosted for a full day on campus […]
Ripon College announces that Christopher Schumacher has been selected as its next athletic director. He will assume his duties June 1. Steve Wammer, associate director of athletics and head softball coach, will serve as the interim athletic director. Current athletic director Ryan Kane has been named athletic director for Carthage College, a role he assumes […]
Ripon College senior Cormac Madigan of Rosendale, Wisconsin, has been awarded a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. The NCAA awards up to 126 postgraduate scholarships annually. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically. The $10,000 scholarships are awarded three times a year corresponding to each sport season (fall, winter and spring). Twenty-one […]
“Lisa Marie Barber: My Spring Garden,” an exhibit of artwork, will be on view March 31 through May 2 in Caestecker Gallery, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, at Ripon College. An opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. March 31. Originally from Tucson, Arizona, Barber earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology with an […]
Three Ripon College cadets were among a team of five cadets representing the Fox Valley Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Battalion at the Northern Warfare Challenge Feb. 24-25 at Fort McCoy. The Fox Valley Battalion is based at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. They are Nathan Crenshaw ’25 of Bangor, Wisconsin; Jacob Lange ’23 of Vail, […]
“The Politics of Resentment: Seven Years Later,” a discussion with University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Katherine Cramer, has been rescheduled at Ripon College. It will be presented at 4:30 p.m. April 20, in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the campus. It is presented by the Center for Politics and the People and will […]
“Cruces/Crossroads,” a two-person exhibition featuring Ripon College Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas and Chicago artist Herman Aguirre Martinez, will be on view March 25 through May 13 at Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art, 207 E. Buffalo St., Milwaukee. A reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 24, with both […]
A project to strengthen the humanities at Ripon College through regional collaboration has received a $150,000 Humanities Initiatives for Colleges and Universities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will fund a three-year effort to reimagine humanistic study for the 21st century and support a plan to bolster humanities education by connecting […]
George “Guy” McHendry ’06 of Omaha, Nebraska, associate professor of communication studies at Creighton University, received two major recognitions from his school in January. He received the Creighton University College of Arts and Sciences 2023 Dean’s Award for Tenure Track Teaching. This award is one of the highest honors the college bestows and is awarded […]
Robert L. “Bob” Wallace, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biology and the Patricia and Philip McCullough 1969 Professor in Biology emeritus, has been active in research and scholarly publications since his retirement in 2019. “Dr. Bob” has dedicated most of his career to the study of rotifers, microscopic, cylindrical animals about the size of the dot […]
An article by Rafael Francisco Salas, professor of art and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, was published Jan. 31 by Urban Milwaukee magazine. “Powerful Art By Prison Inmates” is about the ground-breaking exhibit “Art Against the Odds,” on view through March 11 at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. The […]
A screening of the documentary “Butterfly, Butterfly,” with director Len Morris, will be held at 1:05 p.m. Friday, March 3, in Bear Auditorium, Farr Hall of Science, on the Ripon College campus. The event is free and open to the public. The sponsors are the Center for Politics and the People and Freeland, a frontline […]
“Marijuana: Legalize It or Criticize It?” will be held March 2 at Ripon College. The panel presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Kresge Little Theatre, East Hall, on the Ripon College campus. The talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Center for Politics and the People. The talk […]
A poem by Associate Professor of English Megan Gannon is included in the Winter & Spring 2023 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review. It is titled “Dispatch from the Events Leading Up to the End.”
A paper co-written by Assistant Professor of Biology Robin Forbes-Lorman was published in the November/December 2022 issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching. The journal is published by the National Science Teaching Association. In the paper “Interactive, Physical Course Materials as Formative Assessment Opportunities to Improve Student Learning of Molecular Structure-Function Relationships,” the authors […]
Ronell Bradbeer Anderson ’59 of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, likes valentines, particularly antique ones of bygone eras. She now has more than 500, which she organizes, photographs and displays on various websites, including Facebook and through the National Valentine Collectors Association. “I’ve always liked valentines,” she says. “They were a big part of my life in […]
The three Ripon College choral ensembles will present a combined concert Sunday, Feb 19. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. in C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public. The conductors are Assistant Professor of Music Paul Thompson and Adjunct Instructor of Music Abby Schmidt. Adjunct Instructor of […]
John Harden, assistant professor of politics and government, was interviewed and quoted extensively in an end-of-the-year article by Joanna Weiss for Politico. In the opinion piece “2022 Is the Year We All Finally Got Tired of Narcissists,” Weiss examines how “narcissists had their moment in the sun. But in 2022, some of them got their […]
Because of the inclement weather, the presentation of “The Politics of Resentment: Seven Years Later,” a discussion with University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Katherine Cramer, scheduled today at Ripon College, has been postponed. The Center for Politics and the People will reschedule the event.