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  Fall/Winter 2018: Student Studio Offers Unique Opportunity to Emerging Artists

  Letty Mundt

  Each year, committed art and design students are invited to share a private studio space to complete an independent project of their choosing.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Free Window on World Affairs

  St. Norbert College

  For the first time ever, the annual Great Decisions Lecture Series at St. Norbert College will be free to all. Coordinated by the college’s Center for Global Engagement (CGE), this eight-part lecture series begins in early February and will give the college and members of the community a chance to learn and discuss global affairs that currently affect the United States and other nations around the world.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Paleolimnologist Layers Passions

  St. Norbert College

  Jay Hodgson ’99 had dreams of becoming a historian but couldn’t resist the pull to biology, thus following in his parents’ footsteps. But that doesn’t mean he left his passion for history behind him.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Posthumous Degree Honors Service, Celebrates Family Ties

  St. Norbert College

  When Robert O’Malley ’44 left to serve his country in World War II, he also left his college days behind him – and with them, his hopes for the degree on which he’d set his sights. Little could the new soldier have anticipated that his baccalaureate would indeed be conferred – 77 years later and at the initiative of the son he never knew.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Treasure/The Rilke Portfolio

  Brandon Bauer

  Every issue, we invite one member of the college community to share their delight in an object found on campus. Here Brandon Bauer, associate professor of art, speaks to Print XVI in the Rilke Portfolio of Ben Shahn – one of many in the series that have inspired him. The Rilke Portfolio, Shahn's response to the work of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), is part of the college's art collection.

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  Spring 2018: In My Words/Taking Joy in the Journey

  Brian Bruess

  President Brian Bruess talks about taking joy in the journey.

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  Summer 2018: In My Words/Value Proposition for the Whole World

  Brian Bruess

  President Brian Bruess discusses a value proposition for the whole world.

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  Spring 2018: Treasure/The Norbert of Xanten Window

  Rev. Andrew Ciferni

  Every issue, we invite one member of the college community to share their delight in an object found on campus. Here, the Rev. Andrew Ciferni ’64, director of the Center for Norbertine Studies, speaks to the Norbert of Xanten Window that hangs just inside the entrance to the center.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Tech Developer Turns to Farming

  Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer

  John Moss ’07 left his desk as a software developer to return to his roots on the family cranberry farm – but he didn’t leave his tech life behind completely.

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  Spring 2018: A Running Saga of Religious Life

  Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer

  Norbertines Jordan Neeck ’11 and Johnathan Turba blend their vocations in ministry with their passion for running through their podcast Canons on the Run, where they explore faith, community life, and discernment in the modern world.

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  Spring 2018: Build Your Own Textbook Initiatives Help Students Succeed

  Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer

  obin DeRosa, keynote speaker at St. Norbert’s T3 Conference, demonstrated how Open Educational Resources (OER) and “build your own textbook” initiatives reduce costs, improve student success and retention, and transform learning into a collaborative, public, and lasting endeavor.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Coaching Tree Seeds Hockey Futures

  Mike Dauplaise

  Longstanding, title-winning coach Tim Coghlin sees the succession of coaches bred from his Green Knights program as on one of the biggest assets it can bring to the table. Read on for more about St. Norbert men’s hockey’s impact on the youth and college hockey scene, on the ripple effect experienced by the newer women’s program, on alumni contributions in the world of pro hockey, and on the Coghlin coaching tree.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Cradle of Coaches

  Mike Dauplaise

  St. Norbert College athletics thrives on coaching stability, where many long-tenured coaches prioritize Division III values, family life, and program-building over higher-division opportunities, creating a culture of lasting success and community.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: My Room/His Room: Burke 215

  Mike Dauplaise

  Mike Dauplaise ’84 talks with Nicolas Schmudlach ’19 and Brian Bruess ’90 as student and president chatted about life on campus from their shared residential viewpoint.

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  Summer 2018: Green Knights Dominate the Elites Field

  Mike Dauplaise

  Eleven SNC student-athletes earned an Elite 20 Award from the Midwest Conference this year, shattering the program’s previous mark for one season and more than doubling St. Norbert’s five awards for 2016-17. Green Knights have received 18 MWC Elite 20 Awards in the three-year history of the award – 10 more than the next closest school.

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  Summer 2018: Norbertine Now/A Community Moves Forward

  Mike Dauplaise

  The Rev. Dane Radecki ’72 had to resolve his own reservations before agreeing to become the seventh abbot of the Norbertine Community of St. Norbert Abbey, he tells Mike Dauplaise ’84. As election discussions progressed, the veteran administrator recognized that the community valued his skills in organizational troubleshooting, and that soon his short tenure as pastor of Holy Cross Parish would make way for new service.

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  Summer 2018: A Student Perspective: Keshawn Henning ’19

  Keshawn Henning

  St. Norbert gives students the opportunity to experience the richness of college life, pursue their dreams and expand their knowledge of the world. Every quarter, the St. Norbert Fund profiles a Standout Student who is making the most of that opportunity.

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  Fall/Winter 2018: Athletes of the ’60s Huddle to Reminisce

  Jeff Kurowski

  St. Norbert College Footabll alumni reminisce and exchange stories.

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  Spring 2018: It’s Back in the Water for the Knights

  Jeff Kurowski

  Coach Franco Pacheco hopes to break out something old with the new men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams during the program’s inaugural 2018-19 season.

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  Spring 2018: Newest Academic All-American Claims a Place of Honor All His Own

  Dan Lukes

  Samuel Staehling ’20 is a man of few words, but in his short time at St. Norbert College his accomplishments have spoken volumes. The first student-athlete at St. Norbert to achieve first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America status as a sophomore, Staehling’s performance on the football field and in the classroom has already been unparalleled in school history.

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  Summer 2018: Into the Great Silence

  Colleen Mandell

  Colleen Mandell ’18 found reconciliation and spiritual growth through a silent overnight retreat at St. Norbert Abbey, guided by her Christian Mysticism course, discovering a personal, experiential approach to Catholic faith inspired by mystics like Hildegard of Bingen.

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  Summer 2018: Personally Speaking/Jumping in One More Time

  Nancy Mathias

  Reconnecting with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, the author and her husband embrace the joys and lessons of mentoring a new 11-year-old, reflecting on past experiences, privilege, and the transformative power of community, service, and playful engagement.

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  Spring 2018: Alum Appointment Caps CEL’s First Year

  MaryBeth Matzek

  It’s a homecoming of sorts for regional education and economic development leader Dean Stewart ’88, whose arrival at the Center for Exceptional Leadership caps a year of successes for this new initiative at his alma mater.

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  Spring 2018: On the Road to Disaster

  MaryBeth Matzek

  In September 2017, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit south of Mexico City, and a management professor in De Pere checked her passport. Lucy Arendt (Business Administration), an expert in decision-making following a natural disaster, would travel to Mexico at the end of the semester.

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  Summer 2018: So Good, It Could Never Be Copied

  Maggi McConnaha

  As the end of her final semester approached, Maggie McConnaha ’18 took a look back over her undergraduate years and around her at the classmates who had shared those years with her, and came to a simple conclusion: The Class of 2018 is inimitable.