Category: Academics

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Podcast: Goldman Sachs

Economics professor Gary Krueger on Goldman Sachs

Statistics at UCLA

Amelia McNamara '10 is pursuing a PhD in statistics at UCLA.

History at Columbia University

Westenley Alcenat '10 is a political science and history major from Haiti who came to the U.S. after being orphaned in his home country.He is pursuing a Ph.D. in history at Columbia University.

House of Tomorrow

Professor Bognanni talks about his novel House of Tomorrow

Medical Examiner

Sharmila Raghunandan ’10 found rising suicide rates correlated with rising unemployment rates in one Minnesota county.

Podcast: Better Factories in Cambodia

Raymond Robertson on better factories in Cambodia

South African Odyssey

Child malnutrition, emergency rural medicine, and adolescents with HIV were the research focuses of three students who recently explored community health in South Africa.

Podcast: Israel’s Mizrahim

Frank Adler, Political Science, has researched the role of Israel's Mizrahim, Jews who for millennia were deeply rooted in the region, but were summarily expelled from Arab states after the state of Israel was founded in 1948. Professor Adler examines the "orientalist" discrimination that Mizrahim suffered in Israel, but also raises the possibility that both as Jews and Arabs, the Mizrahim might serve as a bridge to regional reconciliation.

Podcast: Who Should Live and Who Should Die

With the national debate over health care reform at a crossroads, Macalester held an open forum about the issue. Panel Participants included: Jeffrey Kahn, Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, Michael Zis, Political Science, Macalester College, Earl Schwartz, Director of the Social Justice Program and Professor of Religion, Hamline University

Podcast: Life Expectancy and Crime

If you thought you wouldn't live very long, what would you do? Senior Jeremy Roth wondered if it would make people more likely to commit a crime. His paper on the subject earned him first place at the Minnesota Economic Association. In this episode he talks about how he came about his conclusion and how it can be applied.

Podcast: Shilad Sen

Professor Shilad Sen knows his way around computer code and the notes of a musical score. This summer he's working on something he calls a poliwiki and in his spare time, playing the saxophone in three jazz bands.

Podcast: What is an XMAC Laboratory

Professor Chad Topaz talks about what happens in the lab, patterns found in nature and how this Harvard scholar came to a liberal arts college.

Water and Power

Roopali Phadke, assistant professor of Environmental Studies, talks about her class Water and Power, the effects of water management on our global environment and where she hopes our society will be in 20 years in that area.

Podcast: State of the Union

Adrienne Christiansen, political science professor and director of the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching, gives us her take on President Obama's State of the Union address.

Podcast: Sara Boyer on Daddy Long Legs

Daddy Long Legs: Sara Boyer, Biology, talks about what the daddy long legs can tell us about geological history.

Can You Hear the Difference?

If you live in New York, you probably pronounce the words caught and cot quite differently. If you live in California, they most likely come out sounding the same. What Kaitlyn Arctander ’11 (Seacliff, New York) wanted to find out was if Midwesterners, too, were beginning to “merge” these vowel sounds.

Podcast: Our Health Care System

Political Science Professor Michael Zis talks about how politics, the economy, and the simple act of change all play a role in reforming the country's health care system.

2009 Commencement Speaker

Andy Van der Steegh delivers the 2009 senior commencement address.

Let There Be Light

Follow student blogger Zach McDade in his journeys in Nicaragua, bringing solar LEDs to poor, rural families in hopes of encouraging children to attend school.

That the World May Know

English Professor James Dawes shares his experience about interviewing the confessions of Japanese war criminals, who were responsible for some of the greatest atrocities of the 21st century.