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images of Minnesota Campus Compact and Campus Compact award winners (from left to right): Linwood Monroe Arts Plus Principal Dr. Bryan Bass, Professor Christie Manning, Professor Roopali Phadke, Maya Swope '18, and Avik Herur-Raman '20.

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

Macalester community members have received three Presidents' Awards from Minnesota Campus Compact.

April 26 2018

Startup Guru

Longtime Silicon Valley business developer Roya Ansari ’83 is working hard, having fun, and giving back to Macalester.

April 25 2018

How Free is Free?

What does free speech mean on a college campus?

April 25 2018

Solving Sustainability

From solar gardens to electric cars, Macalester alums are working on energy solutions for a more sustainable future.

April 23 2018

Brad Belbas, Academic Information Associate for Social Sciences, Receives the Staff Outstanding Service Award

In celebration of the ways your work has shaped Macalester’s classrooms and supported departments, faculty members, and students across campus, we are proud to offer you the 2018 Staff Outstanding Service Award.

April 17 2018

Anthropology Professor Olga González Receives Jack and Marty Rossmann Excellence in Teaching Award

The award recognizes “a faculty member who has been identified by colleagues and students as exemplifying the teaching goals of Macalester College.”

April 17 2018

Rad Roommates

Paired as first-year roommates at Macalester, these duos have lived together ever since.

April 13 2018

Spanish & Portuguese Professor Galo F. González Receives Thomas Jefferson Award

The award was established in 1961 by the Robert Earll McConnell Foundation to honor faculty members who exemplify the principles and ideals of Thomas Jefferson.

April 10 2018

Teacher-Scholar Tom Varberg

Over his 25 years here, Professor Varberg has transformed what was an empty room into one of Macalester's most successful research laboratories.

April 9 2018

Global Citizenship Awards 2018

Three graduating seniors are recognized for their commitments to service and civic engagement at home and abroad.

April 6 2018

Ping-Pong to Astronomy

There are more than 120 student organizations on Macalester’s campus, with an offering for nearly every interest, ranging from traditional groups like the Mac Weekly to a physics and astronomy club.

April 3 2018

Macalester Theatre and Dance Department presents its 2018 Spring Dance Concert, Perennial, April 27 and 28

All performances will take place in the Frey Theatre at St. Catherine University, 2004 Randolph Ave, St Paul, Minn. 55105.

March 30 2018

Youth Climate Trailblazers

Akilah Sanders-Reed ’16 and Margaret Breen ’20 are using the courts to address the proposed Line 3 pipeline.

March 26 2018

Volunteering in Buenos Aires

Isabela Escalona and Emmet Hollingshead enriched their study abroad experience by volunteering.

March 23 2018

Making “Organic Metals”

Fernando Marquez's chemistry research seeks to replace toxic metals in electronics.

March 20 2018

Seeking Treatment for a Progressive Lung Disease

Supported by the Academic Health Sciences Summer Research Program, Aidan Tirpack researched a progressive and fatal lung-scarring disease.

March 19 2018

The Macalester College Theatre and Dance Department presents Dirk (and others still with us)

There are only two performances, Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24, both at 7:30 p.m. Performance is off campus at: Dreamland Arts LLC, 677 Hamline Ave. No., St. Paul, Minn.

March 17 2018

View of field area in Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument

Macalester Professor Discovers Parasites Plagued Dinosaur-Dominated Ecosystems

Fossils collected from the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in Montana provided a rare opportunity to track parasite infestation.

March 1 2018

Long-term Research into Immune Response

Rohit Kamath is part of a long-term immunology project in Professor Devavani Chatterjea's lab. His summer research was supported by a Professor Jan Serie Research Fellowship.

March 1 2018

Public Health Hero

As a Johns Hopkins- and Yale-educated future surgeon, Cheryl Zogg '11 has always been a high achiever. Now she's on the Forbes 30 Under 30 as well.

February 27 2018

The Inaugural Lecture of Sarah West as the G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Economics

An award-winning teacher, West has supervised many prize-winning honors theses and has co-authored publications with Macalester undergraduates.

February 26 2018