Category: Academics

Geology Field Trip to Iowa

A dozen geology students dug up thousands of Devonian era fossils—and made an especially exciting find.

Space Through the Hubble

At Kitt Peak National Observatory, Erin O’Leary used Hubble Space Telescope images to analyze galaxies. Soon she’ll present her findings to the American Astronomical Society.

Exploring Health Professions

Taylor Fellowships give students a taste of their own kind of medicine.

China Rocks

Intrigued by a class in structural geology, Nikita Avdievitch ’13 accompanied his professor to Northeast China to study an unusual outcropping of rocks.

Global Food

A focus on feeding the world and a more informal format means many more students will be involved in this year’s International Roundtable.

Arab Summer

Working for Human Rights Watch, Omar El Zoheiry ’13 dealt with the fallout from the Egyptian revolution.

IGC Open House

Welcome Back to School

Chuck Green Fellows 2012

For 12 Macalester sophomores and juniors every spring, the final exams and papers at semester’s end mark simply the halfway point for one of their classes.

Belwin Conservancy

This summer, Diane Rubin ’13 (Amherst, Mass.) and Jenny Liu ’13 (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) saw firsthand that exploring biology isn’t limited to textbooks in a classroom. Some days it takes waders and wetsuits, too.

Anatomy of a Crime

Within the first 30 minutes of this class, 16 students have already viewed clips from "Psycho," “The Godfather,” and “Silence of the Lambs” to compare the cinematography. They're researching everything from criminal justice to media portrayals of serial killers.

Power Pedagogy

Mathematics professor Chad Topaz is pioneering new methods of teaching in his Applied Calculus and Differential Equations courses.

28 Telescopes

Chemistry Connections

Bleeding Kansas

Stellar Research

Building on her campus research with astronomy professor John Cannon, Clara Thomann ’13 was selected for a prestigious research program in Chile.

Defense Against the Dark Arts

Rainforest Research

Grandstand – Reborn

Chinese House

Chinese Gaming

A Mac senior takes on the challenge of uncovering—and filming a documentary about—the hidden world of Chinese video games.