Category: Academics

Car Country

Professor Chris Wells in his new book Car Country untangles the complicated relationships between automobiles and the environment.

Community-Based Theatres

Building giant, colorful puppets. Devising complex performances in groups. Listening and learning from each other. These are all essential parts of Professor Harry Waters’s Community-based Theatres class.

Football and Fine Arts

John Verkuilen ’13, a four-year football player for Macalester, also sang in and co-led the student a cappella group Off Kilter.

Hunger Games: The Course

An American studies professor bases her popular new class on a successful young adult trilogy.

History and Evolution of the Earth

First-year students seek clues from Minnesota’s rock record.

Researching refugee response

When Angela Butel chose to write about Cameroonian refugees for a Macalester class project, she didn’t know that she would be one of the first people to tackle the subject.

A Peek at Public Health

When a meningitis outbreak occurred, intern Alexia Malaga ’14 watched Minnesota Department of Health workers spring into action.

Fossils at the Smithsonian

Alexandra Lawrence ’14 interned at the National Museum of Natural History, creating replicas of 75 million-year-old fossils.

Polyglot Leads Model UN

Model UN leader Ruxi Zhang speaks four languages and has been published in two of them.

Virtually Together

Class of 2013

Macalester’s seniors set off for graduate school, jobs, and distant lands.

Two Views of Cambodia

It was a richer experience when students and faculty from religious studies and economics studied together in the kingdom of Cambodia.

Global Scholars

Global Citizens 2013

Three standout students win Mac’s Global Citizenship Student Awards.

Music Makers

Two new conductors–Mark Mandarano and Mike McGaghie–bring fresh energy to Macalester' performing arts scene.

Writing About Evil Men

Life of a Library

NSF Chem Fellow Off to Harvard

Andrew Bendelsmith ’13 graduates with a National Science Foundation research fellowship and a Goldwater Scholarship to support his PhD studies in organic chemistry at Harvard.

Anthropology April Fools’ Day

Professor Profile: Andrew Latham

A profile of political science professor Andrew Latham.

First-Year Courses

Educational Studies professor Tina Kruse teaches both the topic at hand and how to navigate life at Mac in one of the building blocks of a Macalester education: the first-year course.