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Yacob Bennett '22 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will present his senior baritone vocal recital Saturday, April 30. The performance will begin at 1 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts, at Ripon College.

The Ripon College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Tobin Shucha, will perform April 10 at Ripon College. The concert will begin at 3:15 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public.

Abbegayle Lane '22 of Neenah, Wisconsin, will present her senior vocal recital Saturday, April 23, at Ripon College. The recital will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts.

Lydia Wiley Deal '22 of Whitewater, Wisconsin, will perform a senior recital Saturday, April 9, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 7 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free.

Ripon College has announced its Dean's List for the Fall 2021 semester, recognizing academic excellence. To qualify for the Dean's List at Ripon College, students must achieve a 3.40 grade point average or higher on a 4.00 scale and complete at least 12 credits of regular letter-graded work.

A grant from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium funded two student research projects during the 2020-21 academic year.

Stephanie Boahen '21 of Accra, Ghana, and Brianna Bembenek '22 of Campbellsport, Wisconsin, each earned a 2020-2021 TriBeta Research Grant from Beta, Beta, Beta, the national biological honor society during the 2020-21 academic year at Ripon College.

Bren Davis '22 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received an honorable mention in the 2021 ACM Nick Adams Short Story Contest.

Jahaira Gonzalez '23 of Round Lake Beach, Illinois, was awarded a scholarship to participate in Project GO to study Indonesian over the summer.

Area students are participating in a production of "After the Blast" by Zoe Kazan. The futuristic drama will be presented October 14-17th in the Benstead Theatre in Ripon College's C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts.

Ripon College has announced its Dean's List for the Spring 2021 semester, recognizing academic excellence. To qualify for the Dean's List at Ripon College, students must achieve a 3.40 grade point average or higher on a 4.00 scale and complete at least 12 credits of regular letter-graded work.

A grant from the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium funded two student research projects at Ripon College. Christina Othon, associate professor of physics, applied for the grant aimed at contributing to NASA's research program "Examining Hydration Mechanisms of Osmolytes for Food Stabilization." The $9,500 award funded projects by Brianna Bembenek '22 of Campbellsport, Wisconsin, worked on a protein simulation study to study molecular interactions; and Ian Murray '23 of Madison, Wisconsin, worked on an automation programming project.

Catalyst Day - held each fall and spring - is designed to showcase Ripon College's Catalyst curriculum and celebrate the achievements of the students who are completing the capstone seminar in Applied Innovation. The theme for Catalyst Day reflects Ripon's institutional commitments to sustainability and innovation. Throughout the day, attendees have the opportunity to watch student presentations that tackle worldwide issues. Catalyst 300 students are tasked with developing solutions to prominent real-world issues outlined by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. After Catalyst students are assigned one of these challenges, they demonstrate their mastery of applied innovation by identifying a location where their challenge exists and working collaboratively to propose viable solutions. Presentations can be viewed at ripon.edu/catalyst-day/presenters.

Numerous students who have been working with Student Support Services (SSS) this year have achieved academically and been accepted into summer programs and opportunities and graduate school programs. They have worked with SSS to discuss connecting their degrees to various career directions, submit application statements for editing and coordinated to receive guidance and strong recommendations from faculty members.

Ripon College held its annual Awards Convocation at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 21. As one of Ripon's most prestigious events, the event honored outstanding students, faculty, and staff. The list of award recipients is available for viewing at ripon.edu/awards-convocation.

Graduation for the class of 2021 at Ripon College is approaching and the students are looking forward to their future plans and reflecting on their time at Ripon.

"Epilogue 2021: Ripon College Senior Art Exhibition" is on view through May 16 and features art by senior art majors at Ripon College. Those who are in the Ripon College campus community can view the artwork in the lobby of C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Members of the public who cannot visit the campus in person can view the exhibit virtually at ripon.edu/senior-art-show.

Student directors at Ripon College presented a production of "Almost, Maine" virtually from Friday, April 30, through Saturday, May 1. "Almost, Maine" is a comic, warm-hearted view of one night in the very small town of Almost. It examines loss and love. The play is one of the most highly produced contemporary American plays. Each of the 10 directors presented one scene from the play, and the scenes were linked together to form the full play. This was presented as a Zoom reader's theatre and featured a wide array of student performers.

Area students took part in a virtual performance of "Chekhov's Country Comedies" from March 26 to 28 put on by the Ripon College Theatre Department. The production was presented via Zoom and featured three great short farces: The Bear, The Reluctant Tragic Hero, and The Proposal, all written by one of the world's finest playwrights.

Ripon College's Ethics Bowl team competed in the Midwest/Great Lakes Regional Ethics Bowl Tournament over Zoom. The competition is organized each year by the Association of Professional and Practical Ethics.

Ripon College students curated two art exhibits to be viewed on campus in the Ripon College Museum in West Hall or online at ripon.edu/boneheads and ripon.edu/pastiche. The students involved were involved in the Controversies of Museums Studies and Controversies of Art classes as well and some students in the Senior Seminar in Art.

In celebration of World Anthropology Day on February 18th, Ripon College Anthropology students discussed the impact of their studies on their lives. Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human in all aspects of the human experience, past and present. Anthropology takes a very broad "holistic" approach through its diverse subfields, from the study of culture in all its diversity and complexity (cultural anthropology), to the material culture of the past (archaeology), to human origins and adaptations to the environment (biological anthropology), to language and communication (linguistic anthropology) and the many applications of these approaches (Applied/Public Anthropology) to tackling the world's most pressing problems.

On March 17th at 6:30 pm, the Center for Politics and the People at Ripon College with their student advisory board presented "Covering the Military: A Conversation on the Challenges of Military Journalism" as a zoom webinar.

Area student was the third author on a paper recently published in the prestigious Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The article is titled "Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task."

Graduation for the class of 2021 at Ripon College is approaching and the students are looking forward to their future plans and reflecting on their time at Ripon.

Area students were a part of the Ripon College Orchestra, minus - because of the coronavirus pandemic - the players who are members of the community and featuring only strings, recorded a performance of Franz Tunder's "An Wasserflussen Babylon" at the end of the fall semester. It can be heard at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dfn2hHV7KC4up2cdr1TZwqWSRZp0s8EW/view.

Area students took part in Ripon College's production of Molly Sweeney. Performances took place virtually from November 11th through November 14th.

Ripon College has announced its Dean's List for the fall 2020 semester, recognizing academic excellence. To qualify for the Dean's List at Ripon College, students must achieve a 3.40 grade point average or higher ona 4.00 scale and complete at least 12 credits of regular letter-graded work.

Area students were named to various honor societies during the Awards Convocation in the spring of 2020.

Area students graduated from Ripon College during the 2019-2020 academic year. Unfortunately, an in-person graduation was not able to be held because of the COVID-19 pandemic.