Category: College Newswire

Macalester College inaugurates Dr. Suzanne M. Rivera as its 17th president

On October 9, 2021, Macalester formally inaugurated Dr. Suzanne M. Rivera as the college’s 17th president.

Macalester Selects New Dean of Students

Dr. Kathryn Kay Coquemont will become the college’s Associate Vice President and Dean of Students. She will begin her new role January 2022.

Pres. Rivera named to board of College Possible

President Suzanne Rivera has been named to the national board of directors of College Possible, a national college access and success nonprofit.

Maccolades for September 2021: Mac at the UN, a new textbook, and students recognized for caring

Maccolades is a monthly round-up of the most recent accolades and accomplishments earned by members of the Macalester community.

Macalester College Board of Trustees Announces Policies That Reduce Oil and Gas Investments

Pres. Rivera named to national advisory board for college-access non-profit

Macalester College President Suzanne Rivera will be joining other university presidents, CEOs, a former state secretary of education, and nonprofit leaders from across the country as a founding member of a National Advisory Board that will help a Delaware-based college-access organization expand the reach of its work to empower Black, Latino, and low-income students.

New Minn. Art Exhibition Includes Work By Four Macalester Professors

When the Minnesota Museum of American Art’s new exhibition Many Waters: A Minnesota Biennial opens on July 24, it will include work produced by Macalester professors Ruthann Godollei, Megan Vossler, Tia-Simone Gardner, and John Kim. 

Mac student wins first-ever award for aspiring paleontologists of color

Sun Tun '22 is the first student in the nation to receive the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s (SVP) inaugural Futures Award and the $5,000 summer research stipend and professional mentorship that come with it. 

Students create first-ever online guide for Twin Cities’ Russian-speaking community

Students in Prof. Julia Chadaga's Advanced Russian class produced the map to connect the Twin Cities Russian-speaking community.

Mac student selected for inaugural economics program at U of Chicago

Five Macalester students receive State Dept. Critical Language Scholarships

Helen Radovic ‘22, Marley Prichard ‘24, Carter Rutherford ‘23, Alexander Hamann ‘22, and Sarah Acheson-Field ‘24 are among the nearly 700 American college and university students who received a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the 2021 summer. 

Record number of Macalester students awarded State Dept. scholarship to study abroad

The 20-person cohort is the largest number of Macalester students ever to receive the prestigious and highly competitive scholarship in one application cycle since the award’s inception in 2001. 

Maccolades for May 2021: painting for Pride, food security fellowship, and remembering 100 years of subversion

Maccolades is a monthly round-up of the most recent accolades and accomplishments earned by members of the Macalester community.

Two seniors, alum receive 2021 Fulbright awards

Kayla Togneri ’21, Anisha RajBhandary ’21, and Essie Schlotterbeck ’13 were awarded scholarships.

Sounds of Blackness to perform at 2021 Billboard Music Awards

The Grammy-award winning group, which was formed at Macalester 50 years ago this year, will appear remotely from Prince’s Paisley Park.

Macalester College Names Dr. Lisa Anderson-Levy Executive Vice President and Provost

Dr. Lisa Anderson-Levy will become the college’s Executive Vice President and Provost. She will begin her new role on July 6.

Macalester earns top ranking in zero waste competition

The results of the National Wildlife Federation’s 2021 Campus Race to Zero Waste competition are in, and Macalester emerged as one of the top-performing higher education institutions in the nation.

Professor, alum named 2021 Bush Fellows

Dr. Brian Lozenski, associate professor of urban and multicultural education, and Dr. Dziwe Willard Ntaba ‘95, a physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, have been selected as 2021 Bush Fellows.

Recent Mac graduate, professor publish study on children’s movies and morality

Rachel Gehman '19 and psychology professor Steve Guglielmo recently published two peer-reviewed studies in PLOS ONE.

Tips on how to find that first job after college

Mindy Deardurff, dean of Career Exploration, offers some advice and reassurance, plus a helpful reminder that one of the many perks of being a Macalester alum is a lifetime of career support.

Maccolades for April 2021: Fulbright to France, NEA grant, and new books on salvage tourism and Shakespeare