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Nearly 60 percent of Macalester graduates go to graduate or professional school within five years of graduating.

 

And, the award goes to...

Keon West
Rhodes Scholarship

West plans to study experimental psychology during his two years at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Lindsay Jorgensen
Fulbright Grant

Chloe Poynton and Sneh Rao,
Watson Fellowships

Poynton's project is titled "Uprooted Lives: Aid Workers and Their Dedication to Refugee Relief," and she'll travel to Switzerland, Ethiopia, Thailand, Australia and Sweden. She's majoring in Anthropology and International Studies.

Rao's project is titled "Democratizing Sex, Work, Rights and Space," and he'll travel to Argentina, South Africa, Ecuador and Hong Kong. He's majoring in International Studies, Latin American Studies and Hispanic Studies.



What are you doing after graduation?

Here's a sampling.

Workplace

Nicole Lahoz-Arne, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, curatorial assistant

Zachary Axelrod, U.S. Trade Representative's Office, assistant to the trade ambassador for South Asia

Denitza Batchvarova, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., analyst

Tim Bates, National Geographic Society, cartography

Isabelle Chan, International Rescue Committee in Congo, grant officer

Matthew Cox, Arden Ashley, Kieran Palmer-Klein, David Mckenna, Teach for America

Dion Cunningham, St. Augustine's College, biology teacher

Carlos Espinosa, City of New Hope, community development

Ben Freeman, University of Minnesota Ecology Department, research assistant

Julia Gallagher, The Jungle Theater, assistant stage manager

Saad Kahn, Kevin England Niranjan Arulpragasam, Merrill Lynch, analysts

Elena Lloyd-Sidle, Fons Vitae Publishing, editor

Anna Lifson, Women Empowered Against Violence, education coordinator

Hiroki Matsui, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Mike O'Toole, University of Minnesota, junior scientist

Sam Rayner, University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute, lab technician

Andrej Slyckov, The Royal Bank of Scotland in London, financial market division

Gretchen Solomon, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, community liaison

Ekke Soot, Estonian Fund for Nature, editor

Shoko Takemoto, Funds for Public Interest Research, assistant and coordinator

Megan Thieme, Hardwick-Day, data analyst

Andrew Tweeten, Montanans for Tester, deputy campaign manager

Nicholas Wallen, Community Reinvestment Fund, marketing intern

Emily Witsell, French Government, teaching assistant

Graduate School

Tamzeed Ahmed, University of Michigan, financial engineering

Kafui Attoh, Syracuse University, geography

Aaron Beek, University of British Columbia, ancient culture and ethnicity

Nathalia Brashear, Notre Dame High School, spanish teacher

Ian Christy, Cornell Law School

Parker Cohen, University of Minnesota, urban planning

Stefan Doerge, Eastern Virginia Medical School

Mollie Gabrys, Johns Hopkins University, political science

Demoya Gordon, University of California Law School

Barbara Hirschman, Yale Medical School.

Brandon Mason, Columbia Law School

Nicholar Meyer, University of Minnesota Law School

Sarah Miller, Harvard, molecular and cellular biology

Yana Zhekova Mihaleva, University of Michigan Law School

Emilie Minnick, American University-Cairo, forced migration and refugree studies

Tamara Olson, New York University, interactive telecommunications

Lisa Ostenson, Napier University in Scotland, wildlife biology and conservation

Catherine Pastorius, University of Minnsota Medical School

Matthew Patton, Northwestern University Medical School

Mashal Saif, Duke University, religious studies

Panot Sirisanthana, London School of Economics

Julia Vraspir, University of California, Santa Barbara, marine science

Anava Wren, Robbinsdale Clinic, reproductive rights counselor

 

 


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