College Newswire - News - Macalester College

2017 International Roundtable: “Empathy and Its Discontents”

Every October since 1994, Macalester’s International Roundtable has brought diverse communities together to dialogue around a single theme.

September 6 2017

Four tenure-track professors and one tenured professor join Macalester faculty this fall

Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento (Theatre and Dance Department), Erika Busse-Cárdenas (Sociology), Felix Friedt (Economics), Getiria Onsongo (Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science), and Serdar Yalcin (Art and Art History).

September 5 2017

Macalester Names Julie Hurbanis AVP for Marketing and Communications

She comes to Macalester with 20 years of public relations and integrated marketing leadership experience, working with corporate and nonprofit clients.

September 1 2017

Two Macalester alumni receive Princeton in Asia Fellowships for 2017-2018

Stephanie Martinez-Fernandez '17 and Jake Speirs '16 have received the fellowships.

August 24 2017

Macalester Theatre and Dance Department presents “Venus in Fur”

Performances are Friday, September 8 and Saturday, September 9 at 7:30 pm in the Black Box Theatre, in the basement of the Theatre Building.

August 21 2017

Gloria Perez ’88, president/CEO of Jeremiah Program, is First Thursday – Opening Convocation speaker

First Thursday - Opening Convocation is 11:30 a.m., Thursday, September 7, 2017, in the Leonard Center’s Alumni Gymnasium.

August 14 2017

Macalester professor receives NEH grant as one of 245 humanities projects totaling $39.3M nationwide

German Studies professor Brigetta (Britt) Abell is also Director of Writing for the Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching.

August 14 2017

Sociology Graduate Receives National Paper Award

The American Sociological Association's Section on Racial & Ethnic Minorities has awarded recent grad Mahala Miller the 2017 Joe Feagin Distinguished Undergraduate Student Paper Award.

July 19 2017

Macalester receives $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The grant is to expand multicultural, international, and transnational perspectives across campus.

June 27 2017

Macalester president signs “We Are Still In” statement supporting Paris Climate Accord

President Brian Rosenberg has joined many college and university presidents in signing the “We Are Still In” statement, declaring their continued support of the Paris Climate Accord.

June 5 2017

Three Macalester students receive U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships

Gianna Brassil ’20, from San Francisco, Calif., Grey Micah ’17, from Gillsburg, Mississippi, and Angelo Bautista Perez ’19, from Chicago, Ill., have been awarded the scholarships.

May 11 2017

Nine alumni to be honored at Macalester Reunion in June

Two medical doctors, a former pharmaceutical executive, an activist, and an artist, are five of nine alumni to be honored

May 4 2017

Two Macalester students undertake projects to promote peace in Senegal and Mozambique

The students’ grants are from the Davis Projects for Peace initiative funded by the late philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, who launched Projects for Peace on the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2007.

April 27 2017

Nancy Bostrom, Assistant Director of Assessment, Receives the 2017 Staff Outstanding Service Award

In celebration of the ways in which her work has shaped Macalester and strengthened departments and programs all over campus.

April 26 2017

Physics Professor James Heyman Receives Jack and Marty Rossmann Excellence in Teaching Award

For superb work in front of the classroom and in the lab, inspiring countless students and colleagues.

April 26 2017

Four seniors and one alumna receive 2017 Fulbright Awards

Seniors Gretchen Greene received a Research/Study Fulbright to Switzerland, Jonah Lazarus, an Arts Fulbright to Brazil, Catriona Leckie and Christina Moore, English Teaching Assistant Fulbrights to Germany, and Rachel Rostad '15, an English Teaching Assistant Fulbright to Korea.

April 21 2017

The Macalester College Theatre and Dance Department presents Eclipsed, the 2017 Spring Dance Concert

Performances are April 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm and April 29 at 2 pm in the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Main Stage Theater.

April 14 2017

Macalester receives three Presidents’ Awards from Minnesota Campus Compact

Macalester College has received three Presidents’ Awards from Minnesota Campus Compact for 2017.

April 13 2017

Religious Studies Professor James W. Laine Receives Thomas Jefferson Award

James W. Laine, the Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies, has been awarded the 2017 Thomas Jefferson Award.

April 11 2017

Macalester professor receives NEH grant as part of larger humanities projects and programs nationwide

Andrew Latham’s grant, called a summer stipend, is intended to "support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both."

April 6 2017

Macalester Student Receives Honorable Mention for Goldwater Scholarship

Theodore Jacobson ’18 from San Diego, Calif., He is a double major in Physics and Mathematics.