Archive: Sep 2017

Faculty Focus: Christina Esposito, Linguistics

When Professor Christina Esposito encountered linguistics, it was transformational.

Institute for Global Citizenship Photo Contest Highlights

Third Week of Classes Fall 2017

Lots of events happened, here are highlights from a couple of them.

Global Math Innovator

In October, at Clinton Global Initiative University, Cuauhtemoc Cruz Herrera ’19 presents his innovation to help Mexican math students excel.

Videogames and Empathy: a Roundtable Workshop

As part of the International Roundtable focused on Empathy and its Discontents, Ana Diaz ’18, Malik Earle ’18 and Logan Stapleton ’18 look at videogames.

Two Macalester students receive scholarships from the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust

Each received a $30,000 scholarship.

From Fermilab to Financial Services: Four Internships

In their internships, students had fun while exploring career options.

Parade Floats and Giant Puppets

Community Theater under Professor Harry Waters Jr. is active, colorful, creative, and anything but usual.

Award-Winning YA Novelist

YA novelist Lara Avery ’10 won a Minnesota Book Award for her most recent literary effort.

Finding Pathways to Valuable Molecules

Haruhiko Kuramochi's chemistry research is highly theoretical, but has important implications for agriculture and pharmaceuticals.

Second Week of Classes Fall 2017

Second week of classes and campus life is busy.

The Genetics of Corn

Hazel Chew '19 compared genotypes of corn working in the cornfield as well as the lab.

Fine Arts during first week of the semester

Macalester professor receives NEH grant as one of 245 humanities projects totaling $39.3M nationwide

German Studies professor Brigetta (Britt) Abell is also Director of Writing for the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching.

First Week of Classes Fall 2017

Everyone came to campus in time for classes to begin on September 5.

Sylvia Forman Prize Awarded to Recent Macalester Graduate

Katherine Brown ‘16, of Denver, Colo., has been awarded the Sylvia Forman Prize from the Association for Feminist Anthropology

2017 International Roundtable: “Empathy and Its Discontents”

Every October since 1994, Macalester’s International Roundtable has brought diverse communities together to dialogue around a single theme.

Letter to My Sister

From the perspective of a senior, Adrianna Jereb gives her first-year sister Jenna some advice.

First Day of Classes

School started on September 5.

Four tenure-track professors and one tenured professor join Macalester faculty this fall

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento (Theatre and Dance Department), Erika Busse-Cárdenas (Sociology), Felix Friedt (Economics), Getiria Onsongo (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science), and Serdar Yalcin (Art and Art History).

Game Day Pep Rally

A game day gear up and pep rally was held before the men's home soccer game vs. Claremont McKenna on Friday.