Archive: 2022

March 2022 Maccolades: Stellar athletes, a forensics juggernaut, rising stars in business and more

Shakespeare

Students learn about the great bard and see live performances in this course.

A Daily Journal, in Drawings

Professor Rivi Handler-Spitz started drawing daily in 2020. Now ten of her comics are part of an anthology about the pandemic.

Exploring the DNA of Successful Startups

Students in this course learn how to turn ideas into startups.

Eleven Months Later: James Bellitto ‘21

What's like after graduation? James Belitto shares.

Eleven Months Later: Hannah Whipple ’21

What's life like after graduation? Hannah Whipple shares.

Making the right arguments together

A team of students take the national Ethics Bowl title

The future of internationalism for the US and higher education

Five takeaways from our March Big Questions series.

Interns to employees

Two students from the Class of 2022 share how they turned internships into full-time jobs.

New study looks at how coastal ecosystems respond to hurricanes

When confronted by a storm, is it better to be resistant like an oak or resilient like a willow? That’s the long-standing question an international research team that included Macalester professor Christine Sierra O’Connell examines in a new study of the ecological impacts of hurricanes.

Defense Against the Dark Arts

Magic, witches and a little Harry Potter are all part of this anthropology course.

Bodies and Minds: AI Robotics

Macalester is named a top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars

Macalester College is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Scholars.

Maccolades for February 2022: New books and poems, a music composition, COVID drawings and more.

Maccolades is a monthly round-up of the most recent accolades and accomplishments earned by members of the Macalester community. Below are highlights from February 2022. 

Geohazards

Professor Chapman shares how to survive a natural disaster in this geology course.

Macalester receives Beckman Scholars Program award to support student research

Macalester College is one of 14 colleges and universities to receive a 2022 Beckman Scholars Program award, which is dedicated to supporting undergraduate research in chemistry and life sciences.

Studying in another country

Two-thirds of Macalester students study in another country - and this spring is no different.

Your First-Year Course

Starting college is exciting, and with Mac's first-year course program, you'll have support from your professor that extends beyond the classroom.

How do we transform violence into peace?

Five quick takeaways from our Big Questions series

Macalester joins group of top colleges dedicated to expanding access to higher education

Macalester College is one of four institutions that has been invited to join The Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).

New chair of history department has bold ideas and big plans

Dr. Walter Greason isn’t your typical history professor. With his first semester as the new chair of Macalester’s History Department under his belt, the East Coast-transplant and former professor at Monmouth University shares his vision for the department and what drives him as a scholar and teacher.