News Blog - Welty Environmental Center

Cultivating the Eye of a Photographer

July 23, 2020

Nature photography is also instructive, because it results in a concrete observation you can study to identify species, record conditions, examine relationships.

Meet Summer Ecology Intern Madison Suttman

July 16, 2020

This week we’ll hear from Madison Suttman, our summer intern who is supported by a grant from the Col. Robert Morse Foundation. The grant supports a full summer of daily encounters with day campers at the Stateline Boys and Girls Club (SBGC) here in Beloit.

Including Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Welty

July 9, 2020

Learning Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and how the environment was/is infused into daily life is a source of inspiration for how to tackle some of today’s more complex issues.

4 years at my Dream Job

July 2, 2020

On July 5, I will have been working at Welty four years (after two years on the Board)...first as development director, and then as executive director.

The Practicality of a Liberal Arts Education

June 26, 2020

One experience I think a lot of folks who went to Beloit College can speak to is the feeling of needing to validate your decision to pursue a liberal arts education.