Category: Student Life

Thirteen seniors receive 2025 Distinguished Leadership Awards

Meet the thirteen recipients of the Distinguished Leadership Award for Outstanding Seniors.

Founding Day and Pushball 2025

Macalester's Founding Day celebration honored the college's rich history and vibrant community on March 7.

Empowering Entrepreneurship

Basir Talayee ’25, his sisters, and Mac students are helping young Afghan women continue their educations.

The Soundtrack of Macalester

For seventy-five years, the Macalester College Pipe Band has provided the college’s signature sound.

Athletics: Scots Find Success On The Pitch

Support Macalester athletics and read about soccer successes.

Mac Fest 2024 Photo Gallery

Check out photos from this year's Mac Fest.

They Love to Disc

Ultimate Frisbee club team takes fifth at Nationals

Labors of Love and Literature

English professor Andrea Kaston Tange's nineteenth-century British literature class took a trip back to the days of sewing by hand.

Innovation Scholars Tackle Real-Time Challenges

Macalester students explored the intersection of science, healthcare and medicine, economics, business, and entrepreneurship.

All-Nighters, All Innovators: Highlights from Macathon 2023

MintT takes first place.

Creating a resource for art students

Figure drawing people without bias

Transforming Ideas into Action

Grant helps student create program in Italy

“Art Should Be Fearless”

Rapper and record producer Kwame Ametepee Tsikata ’05–aka M.anifest–took the stage at Springfest.

MacShare Brings Food Justice to Campus

MacShare expands affordable groceries, fights food insecurity, and promotes food justice in the Twin Cities through sales and partnerships.

Building Toward Racial Justice

Mac community members take action and implement ideas, with support from college donors.

Unfiltered: Spring 2023

YouTuber Carter Stacy ’24 is “Interesting”

The junior's YouTube channel "That Is Interesting" has over 155,000 subscribers and counting.

Unfiltered: Fall 2022

Senior year has arrived for the students in “Unfiltered,” a series that asks five simple questions—over and over, each semester until they graduate.

“The Pain and the Possibility”

The Department of Multicultural Life led a group to explore the Civil Rights Movement’s places, people, and lessons.

Congratulations, Class of 2022

Farewell, but not goodbye, graduates

Tournament Triumphs

Mac men's basketball experienced success and fan support during this year's MIAC playoffs.