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Pre-Veterinary Medicine

Northland College has a solid track record of preparing you for admission to veterinary medicine professional schools. Our strength is in maintaining a high quality of instruction, but also encouraging you to think critically and broadly as you pursue your interests. The Association of American Veterinary Medicine Colleges recommends a…

Apostle Islands Sled Dog Race

Racing Dogs for Internship

…was added and freshman Alex Fischer, also a pre-vet student, started in January. The internship learning goals are designed to provide opportunities in both outdoor education and pre-vet. “In the past, Northland College offered a dogsledding class and we had students participate as teaching assistants,” Craig said. “This is the…

Northland College student Gretchen Hamernik-Winters dogsledding as part of internship.

Working with Animals

Gretchen Hamernik-Winters is a pre-veterinarian student at Northland College, who has set big goals for herself. “I would love to work as a zoo vet with the potential of opening my own rehabilitation center for zoos that close as well as for wildlife that can no longer live in the…

Crane beak

Saving Cranes

Senior Mary Sellars Interns at the International Crane Foundation

Northland College senior Mary Sellars interned at the International Crane Foundation (ICF) this past summer and is currently applying to veterinary schools as she finishes her biology degree. As part of her internship, she assisted with everything from general husbandry for all fifteen species of cranes, to beak trims, Whooping…

Northland College alum Jennifer Granick

Veterinarian & Prof of Small Animal Internal Medicine

…have known me well enough to predict my future career years before I considered it myself. But Professor Milt Lorber said to me, after my class presentation in biochemistry, “You should consider veterinary school.” Which I did, after graduation. Now an assistant professor of veterinary medicine, I try to emulate…

Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator Jordyn O'Gara

O’Gara ’18 Named Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator

Wolf Awareness Week Events October 23, 25, 26

Jordyn O’Gara’s passion for wolves started as a kid when she used to draw floor plans for the animal sanctuary so she could save all wildlife. Then, when she was 10, she and her parents attended a presentation at the International Wolf Symposium hosted by the International Wolf Center in…