Academics News
Interactive Education
Macalester’s digital liberal arts initiatives are changing how faculty, staff, and students collaborate, share knowledge, and solve problems.
The State of Clay
In the course Wild Clay, students worked on group installation and performance projects as well as creating their own individual performative sculptures
Finding the Rhythm
By developing their listening skills, students learn to understand and appreciate classical music.
Students create first-ever online guide for Twin Cities’ Russian-speaking community
Students in Prof. Julia Chadaga's Advanced Russian class produced the map to connect the Twin Cities Russian-speaking community.
Being Latinx in the U.S.
This introductory course teaches students about the complex issues of being Latinx in America.
Studying Health in a Pandemic
A medical anthropology course grapples with propositions such as “Racism is bad for our health” and “Stigma is deadlier than Ebola.”
Life on Mars and Beyond
A student seeks to find life elsewhere
Setting the Stage
Students learn the art of scenic design in this advanced theater course.
Commencement 2021 – 9:30 a.m. Grad Walk
Student Life News
Radical Accessibility
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Radical MacACCESS lifted up the voices of disabled campus community members.
Commencement 2021 – 9:30 a.m. Grad Walk
Unfiltered: Spring 2021
Along with navigating college during a pandemic, these students are forging ahead with the “typical” sophomore year tasks of declaring majors and thinking about living off-campus with friends.
Unfiltered: Fall 2020
What’s it like to be in college during COVID-19? In “Unfiltered,” we ask several students from the Class of 2023 five simple questions—over and over, each semester until they graduate.
International Forecast
For international college students eager to study in the United States, COVID-19 is just the latest complication.
Buddy Up
The Buddy System is a new, student-created initiative to create community in physical distancing.
The Class of 2024
Get to know Mac's class of 2024.
Thriving in Place
The Macalester Athletics Department is exploring new ways of keeping student-athletes connected.
Neighborhood Pantry
Macalester's pilot Little Free Pantry, a response to a request put forth by the Black Liberation Affairs Committee (BLAC), will be an open place for community members to take and leave non-perishable foods.
Internships News
Career Inquiries
Students share what they learned while interning at businesses in the Twin Cities
Printing a Better Way to Land on the Moon
Kayla Schang worked with a team at NASA to make landing on other planets easier.
Exploring careers
Every summer the Macalester Summer Internship Grant supports students while they work
A Force for Good: Mac Project Corps
Virtual student teams brought a liberal arts perspective to solving problems at local businesses, nonprofits, and start-ups.
The future of global health
Aaron Zou researches why people avoid being vaccinated
Mixing liberal arts with investment banking
Theo Nsereko brings his liberal arts experience to Wall Street.
Early-Stage Entrepreneurship
Each summer through MacNest, 10 students learn what it's like to work at an emerging company.
Risk and Reward
Maddy Kennard structures her internship at a start-up in downtown Minneapolis, just seven miles from campus.
Interning at the Minnesota Department of Health
Three miles from campus, Jack analyzes food recovery and commuter trends at the Minnesota Department of Health.
Alumni News
Record of Service
Macalester reflects on the legacy of former Vice President Walter Mondale ’50.
Bridging the Gap
The aim of this “radical centrist” is to get people talking—and listening—to one another.
Books: Summer 2021
Books recently published by Macalester alumni, faculty, and staff.
Digital Drive
Kai Akimoto '22 applied lessons from his Macalester football experience to digitizing Guam's COVID-19 testing process.
Lecture Notes: Inclusive Technology
Professor Lauren Milne works to make digital interfaces more accessible for people with disabilities.
Pathways for Change
We asked this year’s Alumni Award recipients about the places, people, and experiences that shape their focus.
At the Heart of All We Do
President Rivera writes about the academic excellence that defines Macalester.
Radical Accessibility
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Radical MacACCESS lifted up the voices of disabled campus community members.
Mac Entrepreneur: Jaime Hasama ’18
Hasama is founder and CEO of SoCal Sunny Creative in Los Angeles.
College Newswire
New Minn. Art Exhibition Includes Work By Four Macalester Professors
When the Minnesota Museum of American Art’s new exhibition Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial opens on July 24, it will include work produced by Macalester professors Ruthann Godollei, Megan Vossler, Tia-Simone Gardner, and John Kim.
Mac student wins first-ever award for aspiring paleontologists of color
Sun Tun '22 is the first student in the nation to receive the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s (SVP) inaugural Futures Award and the $5,000 summer research stipend and professional mentorship that come with it.
Students create first-ever online guide for Twin Cities’ Russian-speaking community
Students in Prof. Julia Chadaga's Advanced Russian class produced the map to connect the Twin Cities Russian-speaking community.
Mac student selected for inaugural economics program at U of Chicago
Five Macalester students receive State Dept. Critical Language Scholarships
Helen Radovic ‘22, Marley Prichard ‘24, Carter Rutherford ‘23, Alexander Hamann ‘22, and Sarah Acheson-Field ‘24 are among the nearly 700 American college and university students who received a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the 2021 summer.
Record number of Macalester students awarded State Dept. scholarship to study abroad
The 20-person cohort is the largest number of Macalester students ever to receive the prestigious and highly competitive scholarship in one application cycle since the award’s inception in 2001.
Maccolades for May 2021: painting for Pride, food security fellowship, and remembering 100 years of subversion
Maccolades is a monthly round-up of the most recent accolades and accomplishments earned by members of the Macalester community.
Two seniors, alum receive 2021 Fulbright awards
Kayla Togneri ’21, Anisha RajBhandary ’21, and Essie Schlotterbeck ’13 were awarded scholarships.
Sounds of Blackness to perform at 2021 Billboard Music Awards
The Grammy-award winning group, which was formed at Macalester 50 years ago this year, will appear remotely from Prince’s Paisley Park.