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Clockwise from top left: Lydia Wiley Deal '22, Erin Bryan, Andrew Schaeffer

Faculty, student collaborate on performance of Stabat Mater March 25

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” will be presented in a faculty-student recital Friday, March 25, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 5 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free. Assistant Professor of Music Erin K. Bryan will sing the soprano solos and Lydia Wiley Deal ’22 […]

Brittany Dick '09 running outside

Interview with Brit Dick ’09 published ahead of summer races

A question-and-answer interview with Brit Dick ’09 of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, was featured March 7 on Emerald Mountain Epic.com. She is a world-ranked ultrarunner, USA Triathlon All-American and Champion Burro Racer and spoke in advance of several races in mountain biking and running that she plans to compete in this summer. In “Confident, Not Braggadocious,” […]

Margaret Stevens

  • M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
  • B.A., Macalester College
Paul Thompson

Chamber Singers to kick off spring concert tour Monday

The Ripon College Chamber Singers will present their spring tour in Manitowoc, Sheboygan and Ripon. The choir is under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Paul H. Thompson. The choir will perform at 7 p.m. Monday, March 14, at Roncalli High School in Manitowoc as part of the high school’s spring choir concert. The […]

Faculty At Ripon

Paul Thompson

  • DMA, University of Colorado – Boulder
  • MM, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
  • B.A., Marian University

I am the Director of Choral Activities at Ripon College. I direct the Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, and Choral Union. I also teach Conducting I and II, Choral Techniques, Music History I, and in the Catalyst curriculum. My research includes applications of Servant Leadership in Choral Rehearsals, and the use of concepts from Information Pedagogy to frame Conducting Pedagogy. I conduct Aperi Animam, a professional early music choir in Milwaukee, and sing with several professional choirs throughout the country. In my free time, I love to spend time with my family and friends, read, golf and cook.

Henrik Schatzinger

Henrik Schatzinger to speak March 17 for League of Women Voters

Henrik Schatzinger, professor of politics and government and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, will speak March 17 for the League of Women Voters of the Ripon Area. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the Ripon City Council Chambers. The audience will be limited to 25 and masks are encouraged. […]

Graphic of Ukraine and Russian flags with outline of Ukraine superimposed

Current developments in Russia-Ukraine War to be discussed in webinar Tuesday

“Russia-Ukraine War,” a live webinar discussion about the current event, will be presented Tuesday, March 8, by the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College. The webinar will begin at 6:30 p.m. Central Time. The Zoom link is here. This webinar discusses Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, its causes, ongoing battles, reactions and […]

Rupert Russell

Talk about commodities markets, effect on world events to be held March 10

The developing crisis in Ukraine will be one of the topics highlighted in a virtual talk March 10 by the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College. “Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World” will be presented by author and filmmaker Rupert Russell at 4:30 p.m. Central time. The Zoom […]

Mary Louise Knutson

Jazz trio will perform March 4 as part of the Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon series

The Mary Louise Knutson Trio will perform Friday, March 4, at Ripon College as part of the Chamber Music and Jazz at Ripon series. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. The trio will present a concert of jazz works. Knutson also will lead an […]

Yin and Yang symbol

Today is just TOO much

It is often said, “Good things come in pairs,” and today’s date offers symmetrical synchronicity for pattern lovers! Today is 2-22-22 and falls on a TUESDAY, or should we say TWOS-DAY? Where will you be at 2:22 on 2/22/22 this Tuesday? Feb. 22, 2022, is a palindrome date, meaning it reads the same backward and […]

The numeral two

And now for the mathematical considerations

Today is a palindromic date: 2-22-22. While some people may view this as a lucky date, I view it as an opportunity to reflect on the humble number “two.” We all know that two is the smallest prime number and the smallest positive even number. However, here are two more mathematical facts involving two. Picture […]

Martin Farrell

Martin Farrell will present discussion about Quad Alliance Feb. 28

Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government Martin Farrell will present a talk at 6 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Manitowoc Public Library. His discussion of the Quad Alliance is part of the library’s Great Decisions lecture series. The Quad Alliance is an informal alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia that is committed […]

Deb MacKenzie at piano, Erin Bryan singing

Bryan, MacKenzie perform online recital for art song festival

Assistant Professor of Music Erin Bryan, soprano, and Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie, piano, were invited to present a recital as part of the Sam Houston State University Art Song Festival this month. The performance, which was offered virtually, highlights American composer Lauren Spavelko’s Baby Book, a song cycle the composer describes as “truly […]

Author Chen Chen

Award-winning author will read Feb. 23 in virtual Visiting Writers presentation

Poet Chen Chen will read Wednesday, Feb. 23, as part of the Visiting Writers Series at Ripon College. The virtual event will begin via Zoom link at 7 p.m. Central Time. Chen Chen is a poet and essayist interested in Asian American histories and futures, family — bio and found, queer friendship, multilingualism, hybrid texts, […]

Ripon College One-Act Play Festival 2022

Student directors to present One-Act Play Festival this week

One-Act Play Festival with student directors will be presented Feb. 18-19 by the Department of Theatre at Ripon College. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public, and audience members are asked to wear masks. Plays to be performed are: […]

Beth Nemecek and Chuck Winer

National Donor Day highlights alumni need for kidney donations

Today is Valentine’s Day, an observation of love. But it is also National Donor Day, celebrating those who give a gift of love and life through organ, eye and tissue donation. The donation of a kidney can be done by a living donor, and two Ripon alumni are among those desperately waiting for a donated […]

Mary Unger

Mary I. Unger will speak for Black History Month at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Mary I. Unger, associate professor of English and coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, will speak Wednesday, Feb. 16, for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Black History Month programming. Her talk, “Bad Girl Brooks: Refusing Respectable Reading in the Black Chicago Renaissance,” will be held virtually via Zoom from 1-2 p.m. She will discuss […]

William J. Woolley and book cover

William J. Woolley publishes book about how modern U.S. Army was created

Creating the Modern Army: Citizen Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939, a new book by Professor Emeritus of History William J. Woolley, will be published in March by the University Press of Kansas. Woolley taught at Ripon from 1969 to 2001, and the book was inspired by the course American Military Institutions that […]

Rafael Francisco Salas

Gov. Evers appoints Rafael Francisco Salas to Wisconsin Arts Board

Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas to the Wisconsin Arts Board, the state agency responsible for the support and development of the arts throughout Wisconsin. Salas’ work has been exhibited in New York City, San Diego, Boston and venues in the Midwest, including Neville Public Museum, Museum of Wisconsin Art, […]

Members of the Black Alumni Panel

Black alumni panel to speak Thursday

A panel of Black alumni will speak via Zoom from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday as part of Black History Month. The event is sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion. The panel is open to all. The Zoom ID is 256 018 4018. Panel members will speak about their journeys after college, and […]