Department News

Join the Geology Department for food, fun, and friendship at our annual spring BBQ.

Dinosaurs Extravaganza - a celebration of art and science! 

Please join us for an evening learning from, and celebrating, our 16 senior majors!

Talk titles and schedule will be posted outside the department office (OLRI 116). 

Join the Geology Department in welcoming Alison M. Anders, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth Science and Environmental Change, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a talk about her research on drainage network evolution.

Jökulhlaup is Icelandic for a glacial outburst flood. Join the in the fun as the Geology Department bursts out and floods into the Webers Rock Garden for a BBQ!  Food, fun, hammer throws, and more!

Guest Speaker: Nick Swanson-Hysell, Associate Professor, Dept of Environmental Sciences and Associate Director, Institute for Rock Magnetism at the University of Minnesota.

Nick’s presentation will explore recent advances in reconstructing Earth’s cooling climate during the Ordovician period when the rocks under Macalester College were deposited. He will then broaden the scope to discuss his research group’s efforts to understand the links between changing paleogeography and climate from the Cryogenian Snowball Earth, 717 million years ago, to the onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation 2.5 million years ago.

Friday, April 12, 4:00-7:00 p.m.

Olin-Rice Science Center 100

Come support your 2024 graduating seniors as they present their research.

Stay as long as you can. Schedule is posted in the department so you know who is presenting when.  

Congratulations, seniors!

Speaker:  Claire Wahmanholm, author of Meltwater

Claire Wahmanholm will read from her latest collection, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions, 2023) and discuss what poetry can offer us during the age of climate collapse, ecocide, species loss, and extractive capitalism. The talk will end with a Q&A and selection of writing prompts.

Claire received her BA from UW-Madison, her MFA from the Johns Hopkins University, and her PhD from the University of Utah. Her debut full-length collection, Wilder (Milkweed Editions), won the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Her second collection, Redmouth, was published with Tinderbox Editions in 2019. Her third collection, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions 2023) is a finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Awards and the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. She was a 2020-2021 McKnight Writing Fellow, and her poem, “Glacier,” won the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her work has most recently appeared in Sierra, The Hopkins Review, The Anarchist Review of Books, TriQuarterly, Ninth Letter, and Blackbird, and has been featured by the Academy of American Poets.

Refreshments provided.

This event is co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies, English and Geology Departments.