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In the News
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Students With a Plan Graduate Years Ahead
After two years at St. Norbert, Ben Gjerde heads off to law school. His classmate Alexis Renikow has graduation in her sights this December.
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It’s Their Line Anyway: Student Org Takes on Improv
A comedy experience in New Zealand prompted Joshua Bregger ’18 to raise laughs through a new student organization at ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼.
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Gap Experience Has Lasting Impact
The first students to participate in the Gap Experience will graduate this month, and some say they’ll take the tools they earned in their very first semester with them long after Commencement.
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Bump, Set, Spike: St. Norbert to Add Men’s Volleyball Program in 2019-20
Men’s volleyball, quickly growing at the Division III level, will be the 23rd varsity sport offered at ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼.
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Green Knights’ National Title Extends a Remarkable Run
St. Norbert has established itself beyond doubt as the most successful program in Division III with its fifth national title in 11 years. Every player recruited since 2003 has seen at least one national win.
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St. Norbert Abbey Elects Its Seventh Abbot
The newest abbot of St. Norbert Abbey stands in a line of holy priests that includes six alumni of ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ – a succession that began with the founder of the college himself.
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Year With The Saint John’s Bible Begins With a Blessing
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ is hosting a Year With The Saint John’s Bible, the first illuminated, handwritten Bible of monumental size to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in more than 500 years.
Mary Kate Manion ’13 Reigns as St. Patrick’s Day Queen
The St. Norbert alum will preside over the Chicago parade and related festivities while celebrating her Irish roots.
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Textbook Example
Intercultural insights from St. Norbert students are benefiting communication students around the world.
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Leadership on the Double
Whether it was 5-mile runs before dawn or swimming fully clothed in the Fox River, Katie Potter ’18 and Brooke Wilson ’18 did it together – Potter as an ROTC cadet, and her friend Wilson as a civilian participant.
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On the Road to Disaster
With decision-making in time of crisis as her scholarly focus, Lucy Arendt (Business Administration) is seldom far from the action.
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It’s Back in the Water for the Knights
Coach Franco Pacheco is traveling across country to build teams of 12 men and 12 women for the first season of the new Green Knights swimming and diving teams.
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A Running Saga of Religious Life
Running shoes make suitable vestments for Canons on the Run podcasters Fraters Jordan Neeck ’11 and Johnathan Turba. Their sport inspires content for their new way of communicating, in a very old tradition.
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Advocate Speaks to the Heart
Her internship, her studies and her own life experiences all came together for Adriana Bink ’20 as she helped bring a best-selling author to campus last semester.
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Making Meaning at Memorable Events
Bringing people together for a wonderful occasion is both terrific and terrifying. But it’s a familiar charge for our Alumni & Parent Relations team, who between them plan some 75 events a year.
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In the News
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Students With a Plan Graduate Years Ahead
After two years at St. Norbert, Ben Gjerde heads off to law school. His classmate Alexis Renikow has graduation in her sights this December.
Read More -
It’s Their Line Anyway: Student Org Takes on Improv
A comedy experience in New Zealand prompted Joshua Bregger ’18 to raise laughs through a new student organization at ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼.
Read More -
Gap Experience Has Lasting Impact
The first students to participate in the Gap Experience will graduate this month, and some say they’ll take the tools they earned in their very first semester with them long after Commencement.
Read More -
Bump, Set, Spike: St. Norbert to Add Men’s Volleyball Program in 2019-20
Men’s volleyball, quickly growing at the Division III level, will be the 23rd varsity sport offered at ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼.
Read More -
Green Knights’ National Title Extends a Remarkable Run
St. Norbert has established itself beyond doubt as the most successful program in Division III with its fifth national title in 11 years. Every player recruited since 2003 has seen at least one national win.
Read More -
St. Norbert Abbey Elects Its Seventh Abbot
The newest abbot of St. Norbert Abbey stands in a line of holy priests that includes six alumni of ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ – a succession that began with the founder of the college himself.
Read More -
Year With The Saint John’s Bible Begins With a Blessing
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ is hosting a Year With The Saint John’s Bible, the first illuminated, handwritten Bible of monumental size to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in more than 500 years.
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Mary Kate Manion ’13 Reigns as St. Patrick’s Day Queen
The St. Norbert alum will preside over the Chicago parade and related festivities while celebrating her Irish roots.
Read More -
Textbook Example
Intercultural insights from St. Norbert students are benefiting communication students around the world.
Read More -
Leadership on the Double
Whether it was 5-mile runs before dawn or swimming fully clothed in the Fox River, Katie Potter ’18 and Brooke Wilson ’18 did it together – Potter as an ROTC cadet, and her friend Wilson as a civilian participant.
Read More -
On the Road to Disaster
With decision-making in time of crisis as her scholarly focus, Lucy Arendt (Business Administration) is seldom far from the action.
Read More -
It’s Back in the Water for the Knights
Coach Franco Pacheco is traveling across country to build teams of 12 men and 12 women for the first season of the new Green Knights swimming and diving teams.
Read More -
A Running Saga of Religious Life
Running shoes make suitable vestments for Canons on the Run podcasters Fraters Jordan Neeck ’11 and Johnathan Turba. Their sport inspires content for their new way of communicating, in a very old tradition.
Read More -
Advocate Speaks to the Heart
Her internship, her studies and her own life experiences all came together for Adriana Bink ’20 as she helped bring a best-selling author to campus last semester.
Read More -
Making Meaning at Memorable Events
Bringing people together for a wonderful occasion is both terrific and terrifying. But it’s a familiar charge for our Alumni & Parent Relations team, who between them plan some 75 events a year.
Read More
Regular Features
In My Words
Taking Joy in the Journey
“[I’m] sitting on an overturned bucket, depth-finder humming, jigging my favorite artificial baits and seeking just one hungry walleye. ... Above me a most glorious, luminescent full moon comes into view. Fiat lux!” – President Brian J. Bruess ’90
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Personally Speaking
A Lived Experience of Learning
John Neary (English) remembers when he taught all his classes sitting on the floor in his on-campus living room and how they felt like parties: “My son took his first steps not to me or my wife, but to a student. This truly was homeschooling,” he says.
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Treasure
The Norbert of Xanten Window
“There is this sense of its coming home; it had to be brought back. So I’m fond of our window, because it carries a history.” – the Rev. Andrew Ciferni ’64 (Center for Norbertine Studies)
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Alumni Profile
Happy Trails to Megan Leedom
For nearly four decades, Megan Leedom ’98 had no idea she was a long-distance hiker at heart. It wasn’t until the early 2010s, when living in Seattle, that Leedom began hitting the trails in earnest. And her inner hiker emerged.
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Big Picture
The Promise of Spring
It’s coming! Just when it seems winter will never end, the days warm; flip-flops, Frisbees and outdoor fun reappear; and the academic year moves toward its exciting conclusion. Our campus is an arboretum, and it blossoms at the perfect time.
Online Exclusives
All that a St. Norbert education has to offer is presented in a new video aimed at prospective students beginning their college search.
Carol Bruess ’90 discusses the daily communication practices that help to create healthy lives, communities, marriages, families and friendships. Carol is the wife of President Brian Bruess ’90.
Samuel Staehling ’20 is the first student-athlete at St. Norbert to achieve first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America status as a sophomore. His performance on the football field and in the classroom has already been unparalleled in school history.
A Build Your Own Textbook initiative turned into a cause that aligns with student retention and success. Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer ’11 shares more about Robin DeRosa’s textbook philosophy from the last T3 (Transformative Teaching & Technology) Conference at ÀÏ°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼.
The Hispaniolan solenodon is one of the world’s few venomous mammals. It features, along with our own solenodon expert Adam Brandt (Biology), in the new Netflix series “72 Dangerous Animals Latin America.”
From the parable storyteller to the traveling preacher, Christians have always been sharing stories about God and self; only now they can rely on on-demand access free for the downloading. It’s all in the Canons on the Run first episode “From Broadcast to Podcast”!
