Category: Academics

Lecture Notes: Exploring Sensation and Perception

Professor Eric Wiertelak examines how our brains make sense of the world around us.

Professors Look Beyond the Lecture

Macalester faculty members find creative ways to help students learn even the most challenging concepts.

Macalester student receives $30,000 Truman Scholarship

Julian Applebaum ‘23, a junior from Wellesley, Massachusetts has been named one of 58 Truman Scholars for 2022.

Trio awarded “Best in Show” at DataFest

What stories can one massive dataset tell? Over one weekend in March, students dug in and found out.

Professor Bill Moseley is the 2022 Jefferson Award winner

DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography Bill Moseley is the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Award.

Two Students Win $10,000 grants from Davis Projects for Peace

Macalester students Yosan Worota '23 and Alice Bruno '23 have been awarded $10,000 grants from the Davis Projects for Peace program.

Three students receive Fund for Education Abroad awards to help with travel expenses

Macalester students Ikran Noor ‘24, Juan Carlos Pineda ‘24, and Linda Lor ‘24 are among the 123 undergraduate scholars across the country to receive a Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) award.

Two Mac seniors awarded Watson Fellowships for travel abroad

Two students to spend a year traveling the world

Trillium Family Foundation grant supports Mac Project Corps

In January, 110 students completed the second iteration of Mac Project Corps with support from the Trillium Family Foundation.

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.

The future of internationalism for the US and higher education

Five takeaways from our March Big Questions series.

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.

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.