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Idea Lab Offers New Ways to Learn and Create

The second floor library now features innovative technology, new furniture, and a variety of options for learning and creating.

The Macalester College Theatre and Dance Department presents No Child

Performances are 6:30 pm, Friday, October 13 and 6:30 and 9:30 pm, Saturday, October 14, Black Box Studio Theater.

Faculty Focus: Christina Esposito, Linguistics

When Professor Christina Esposito encountered linguistics, it was transformational.

Institute for Global Citizenship Photo Contest Highlights

Global Math Innovator

In October, at Clinton Global Initiative University, Cuauhtemoc Cruz Herrera ’19 presents his innovation to help Mexican math students excel.

Videogames and Empathy: a Roundtable Workshop

As part of the International Roundtable focused on Empathy and its Discontents, Ana Diaz ’18, Malik Earle ’18 and Logan Stapleton ’18 look at videogames.

Two Macalester students receive scholarships from the Harold S. Geneen Charitable Trust

Each received a $30,000 scholarship.

From Fermilab to Financial Services: Four Internships

In their internships, students had fun while exploring career options.

Parade Floats and Giant Puppets

Community Theater under Professor Harry Waters Jr. is active, colorful, creative, and anything but usual.

Award-Winning YA Novelist

YA novelist Lara Avery ’10 won a Minnesota Book Award for her most recent literary effort.

Finding Pathways to Valuable Molecules

Haruhiko Kuramochi's chemistry research is highly theoretical, but has important implications for agriculture and pharmaceuticals.

The Genetics of Corn

Hazel Chew '19 compared genotypes of corn working in the cornfield as well as the lab.

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.

Sylvia Forman Prize Awarded to Recent Macalester Graduate

Katherine Brown ‘16, of Denver, Colo., has been awarded the Sylvia Forman Prize from the Association for Feminist Anthropology

Letter to My Sister

From the perspective of a senior, Adrianna Jereb gives her first-year sister Jenna some advice.

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).

Comprehending Cuba Through Castro

Jennifer Arnold ’19 combines her majors in history and computer science to study Fidel Castro’s speeches.

Language of Diplomacy

A Mac class on international diplomacy extended into a two-week program in Europe.

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

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

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.

First-Year Firecrackers 

Four highly motivated astronomy classmates were awarded REU fellowships as first-year students.