Category: College Newswire

Theater and Dance presents Letters|Home, inaugural performance in new Theater, April 25-28, May 2-4

Admission is free with a nonperishable food donation for Second Harvest Heartland.

Barb Olson, Facilities Services, Receives the Staff Outstanding Service Award

Susan Fox Receives Jack and Marty Rossmann Excellence in Teaching Award

Macalester College Announces Presidential Search

Macalester College announces the search for its seventeenth president, who will succeed President Brian Rosenberg.

Macalester Community Members Receive Awards from Minnesota Campus Compact and National Campus Compact

Each president or chancellor from a Minnesota Campus Compact member institution may recognize one honoree in each of the three award categories

Macalester Student receives Truman Scholarship

Recipients of the Truman Scholarship receive a $30,000 scholarship toward graduate school.

Registrar Jayne Niemi Receives Thomas Jefferson Award

President Rosenberg Announces His Departure in May 2020

The opportunity to serve as President of Macalester has been by far the greatest privilege of my professional life.

Macalester Associate Dean Named American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow

Dianna Shandy has taught in Macalester’s anthropology department for 20 years.

Theater and Dance Dept. presents Spring Dance Concert: Open Despite, April 11, 12, and 14

The concert features seven student-choreographed pieces on a range of vulnerable and joyous journeys.

Macalester College among Peace Corps’ 2019 top volunteer-producing schools

There are 19 Macalester alumni currently volunteering in countries around the world.

Yale Law Professor, James Forman Jr., to speak at Macalester’s 2019 Commencement

Commencement will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, May 18, at the college.

Macalester is a top Fulbright producing institution for 2018-2019

Macalester qualified as one of only 11 institutions in the country to be a top producer because of the two faculty scholars and six students who were awarded Fulbright awards for 2018-2019.

Sociology Majors Sweep Prizes in Midwest Sociological Society Paper Competitions

Three senior sociology majors have been awarded first, second, and third prize, respectively, in the 56th Annual Midwest Sociological Society Student Paper Competition.

Macalester’s new Theater and Dance building completes the final phase of the JWFAC renovation

“We designed the spaces in the building with students and their education at the forefront,” said Provost Karine Moe.

Four Macalester Faculty Members Receive Tenure

Morgan Adamson, Media and Cultural Studies, Peter Bognanni, English, David Shuman, Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, and Mario Solis-Garcia, Economics have received tenure.

Seven Macalester students awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to Study Abroad

The seven are part of the 844 American undergraduate students from 335 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive this award to study abroad spring 2019.

The 38th Annual G. Theodore Mitau Endowed Lecture with Professor Cathy J. Cohen

The lecture will be at 4:45 p.m., Tuesday, February 12, in the John B. Davis Lecture Hall, Ruth Stryker Dayton Campus Center.

Donnie Brooks Named Macalester Director of Athletics

Donald “Donnie” Brooks will be the next Director of Athletics at Macalester College. Brooks comes to Macalester after serving as the Director of Athletics and Recreation at Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.

Two Macalester professors receive Fulbright Awards for spring 2019 semester

Ruthann Godollei and French and Francophone Studies Professor Juliette Rogers have both received Fulbright Awards for the spring 2019 semester.

Two seniors receive scholarships from the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust

Jacob Trout, from Columbia, Mo., and Brian Yu, from St. Louis Park, Minn., have received $30,000 scholarships.