Category: Academics

Medical Examiner

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

February 19 2010

Podcast: Better Factories in Cambodia

Raymond Robertson on better factories in Cambodia

February 8 2010

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.

January 29 2010

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.

January 18 2010

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

January 18 2010

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.

January 17 2010

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.

January 17 2010

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.

January 17 2010

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.

January 15 2010

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.

January 2 2010

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.

January 1 2010

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.

November 9 2009

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.

August 12 2009

2009 Commencement Speaker

Andy Van der Steegh delivers the 2009 senior commencement address.

May 30 2009

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.

May 9 2009

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.

April 20 2009

Book of Night Women

"We tend to demonize humans but don't humanize demons," says Marlon James about his characters in the novel The Book of Night Women, which has received rave reviews.

April 20 2009

John Cage’s Sonatas, Interludes and Accumulations

The Macalester Theatre & Dance and Music Departments collaborated on a significant choreographed performance of John Cage’s landmark 1948 piece, “Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano.”

February 25 2009

Uri Caine

One of the New Music Series concerts featured jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Uri Caine performing solo piano works as well as with a combo, which included Macalester studio instructors Dave Jensen, trumpet, and Kathy Jensen, saxophone. The MacJazz big band, directed by Joan Griffith, performed several works by Caine.

February 25 2009

From Mac To Yale

Rebecca Delventhal pursues a PhD at Yale University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

February 22 2009

Music in Memphis

If you’re taking a class called “American Pop, Rockabilly, and Soul, 1954–64,” you might as well go straight to the source. Or at least that’s what music professor and class instructor Mark Mazullo thought.

February 25 2008

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