Author, educator, leader … President Tom Kunkel promises several more pages of accomplishments before he begins his next chapter. He steps down in May 2017.
Onward and Up
On their journey, the first cohort of Gap Experience students encountered new places, new faces, new insights, new opportunities to learn, serve and grow. For their director and traveling companion, it was an exercise in matching their energy and managing her own. >>MORE
Man in ProfileA new book by President Tom Kunkel raises issues that color the legacy of one of our greatest writers of non-fiction. We invited Kunkel, a journalist and a leader in higher education, to offer his own take on the controversy. >>MORE
Holly Nickerson Still Likes ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼We check back in with one new grad who, as an entering first-year student, allowed us to share the social-media ways Holly Nickerson liked ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼. Turns out, Holly Still Likes St. Norbert! >>MORE
News of St. Norbert
Meet Debbie Kupinsky (Art), whose fearless approach to her own career comes with a can-do spirit that she looks forward to sharing with her students.
He’s known as “Mr. Beloit” and now the contributions of Fran Fruzen ’52 are to be enshrined in the name of the Wisconsin community’s newest school.
Before the Class of 2019 had even unpacked its last boxes the excitement began – with a first-year student service project, a Convocation ceremony and a picnic complete with fireworks.
From Zambia to the Pacific Northwest: A student org has become an – unintentional – feeder program for a Catholic volunteer corps.
Medical students join St. Norbert’s on-campus community for the first time as the new Medical College of Wisconsin class celebrates the start of its Green Bay-area journey.
The Rev. Jim Neilson, O.Praem., ’88, a member of the art faculty since 1993, now serves the college community in an additional role. He follows the pastorate of the Rev. John Tourangeau, O.Praem., ’81 as the new administrator of ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Parish.
New developments in progress or in prospect are opening up new possibilities for one of the campus’s defining features.
The creation of a world-class Catholic education in Greater Green Bay is the goal of a new collaboration between St. Norbert and regional educational systems.
For Kelsy Burke (Sociology), the creation of a new digital fellowship on campus aligned with skills she herself was rapidly accumulating as she pursued work on a virtual ethnography.
Green Knight men and women made it a day for the record books when both track-and-field teams captured their Midwest Conference team championships.
At Commencement this year, two friends would become the college’s first joint student speakers – but their four-year journey to the podium was the larger collaborative effort.
The email may well begin, “Not sure if this is of interest to the magazine, but … .” And thus, with characteristic diffidence, another fascinating nugget for our Alumni Notes section drops into the editor’s mailbox.
Regular Features
Dean Jeffrey Frick, himself an organic chemist, celebrates the dedication of the new Gehl-Mulva Science Center and the new chapter it opens for science education at St. Norbert.
“Today, when I wade in a thin blue line to fish, more often than not I see the past in the present and contemplate the future.” Nelson Ham (Geology & Environmental Science)
“Collections of this magnitude of pretty much anything are not common for a college of this size. It’s a testament to someone’s will to spend that much time and effort at work in a particular field of science.” – Larry Scheich (Natural Sciences)
The life of Mimi Dane ’77 has been peppered with choices. But she is confident about each bold decision that led to her current professional role as CEO of Flying Horse Farms, a camp in Ohio that brings joy to seriously ill children and their families.
It’s a Norbertine thing: We’re contemplatives in action. This summer evening, the cool shade behind Bemis gently reminds us that honoring the first part of that equation is no bad thing.
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