Umer Hussain, assistant professor of business and sports management, presented a research paper at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) annual conference Nov. 9-12 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the paper, Hussain examines how “researchers have claimed that the popular media portray Muslim men athletes as bizarre, conservative and masculine hegemonic […]
Some students come to Ripon College uncertain which career they should enter after their four years at the school. Not Amy Fels ’17. “I came to Ripon wanting to study history and build a career in archives, but having the opportunity to work in the college archives confirmed my intuition that this career path was […]
Mike Chamberlain ’78 of Auburn, New York, is continuing his herculean task of documenting more than 900 World War II photos taken by his late father, Carl Chamberlain. Throughout his deployment, Carl, a staff sergeant in the Army, took photographs in the field. Mike has donated the photos to the Veterans History Project (VHP) run […]
Brian Smith, professor emeritus of religion, has a paper in the journal Teaching Theology and Religion, published by the University of California Berkeley. “Teaching Religion Online to Nontraditional Students” describes the online teaching of world religion courses he has done for older adults at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and how it positively informed his classroom […]
Alondra Castillo ’23, a sociology and Spanish major from Northlake, Illinois, has placed second in the Wisconsin Sociological Association’s undergraduate student paper competition. She won for her Senior Seminar paper from last spring, “Building Community in Gendered Ways in College Basketball.” Her research is based on participant observation of two collegiate basketball teams, as well […]
“After the Election: Now What?”, a panel discussion, will be presented Nov. 17 at Ripon College. The 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. This […]
Triskelion Trio, a unique chamber ensemble dedicated to advocating for music by living composers, will perform in the Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon series Friday, Nov. 11, at Ripon College. The program will begin at 7 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. All events in the Chamber Music and […]
Freesia McKee, Ripon College’s poet-in-residence, will present a poetry reading at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12. The reading will be in the North Reading Room of Lane Library. It is free and open to the public. Megan Gannon, associate professor of English, will open the program with a short reading. McKee writes about the influence […]
The Ripon College Chamber Singers/Concert Choir and Symphonic Wind Ensemble each will perform concerts Sunday, Nov. 6. Both concerts will be presented in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. The Chamber Singers and Concert Choir will perform at 3:15 p.m. Assistant Professor of Music […]
A classical guitar recital will be presented Friday, Nov. 4, at Ripon College. The recital by Adjunct Instructor of Music Christopher Cramer will begin at 7 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public. The program includes selections from the 16th through the 20th […]
Ripon College was selected to host the CESA 6 Multilingual Multicultural Post Secondary Fair Thursday, Nov. 3. Multilingual multicultural students, parents and staff from 39 public school districts in eight nearby counties will attend. The CESA 6 Language and Culture Center annually hosts a similar opportunity on a local campus. Highlights will include breakout sessions […]
Ripon College again has been placed on national rankings lists of the best institutions for undergraduate education. Ripon is ranked the top school in Wisconsin for promoting social mobility by U.S. News & World Report. The ranking is included in the 2022-2023 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings. It ranks 38th among colleges nationally. Ripon […]
Rhein graduated from Ripon with a major in biology and a minor in education, before going on to earn his master of science degree in educational leadership from UW-Milwaukee. After obtaining his degree at Ripon College, he taught at both Markesan High School in Markesan, WI, and Brooklyn Center High School in Brooklyn Center, MN.
Coach Rhein currently resides in Ripon with his wife, Stephanie, and their dog, Ringo.
Scott Strazzante ’86 of Mill Valley, California, is featured in a recent interview for OnChain Magazine. “Scott Strazzante’s Whitney Houston,” a show and sale of his work, are part of the OnChain Media+Entertaiment “Women of Authenticity” series. Strazzante is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle and an author. The interview highlights Strazzante’s […]
Poet-in-Residence Freesia McKee has published a book review of Holding My Selves Together: New and Selected Poems, by Margaret Rozga, on artlitlab.org. This is the fifth book of poems by Rozga, 2019-2020 Wisconsin Poet Laureate. It was published in May 2021 by Cornerstone Press. McKee grew up in Milwaukee and earned an MFA in poetry […]
A podcost that came out Oct. 20 on slate.com includes Sarah Frohardt-Lane. In “One Year: 1942,” she talks about rubber rationing during World War II, based on her research on this topic. Her portion starts about the 25:00 minute mark. A written transcript also is available. In addition, in August Frohardt-Lane co-led a workshop that […]
Assistant Professor of Biology Ben Grady gave an invited research presentation Oct. 17 for the biology seminar series of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin. The title of his talk was “Clean energy and conservation: the story of Tiehm’s wild buckwheat (Eriogonum tiehmii).” Tiehm’s wild buckwheat is a wildflower known to grow only in a small, 10-acre […]
Steve Wammer, head softball coach and associate director of athletics, was inducted into the Northland College Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 24. He began at the college in Ashland, Wisconsin, in 1999 as athletic director to lead the enhancement and expansion of athletics as well as the process of joining the NCAA. That process was […]
Umer Hussain, assistant professor of business and sports management, was the winner in the Social Sciences category of the 2021-2022 Distinguished Dissertation Award from Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. in health and kinesiology (sport management) from Texas A&M in May 2021. His dissertation, “Unconventional Means to Enhance Muslim Women’s Inclusion in Sports,” investigates […]
Assistant Professor of Theatre Lillian Brown has received a Mellon Faculty Fellowship from Associated Colleges of the Midwest. At the post-graduate level, Mellon Faculty Fellowships offer tenure-track appointments at an ACM college to new Ph.D. or terminal master’s degree graduates whose backgrounds and life experiences will enhance diversity on the ACM campuses. There will be […]