Home News 2025 2025 Hana Dinku receives the 2025 Staff Outstanding Service Award Dinku, the director of the Lealtad-Suzuki Center for Social Justice, received the award for her dedication to equity and justice at Macalester and beyond. Macalester senior awarded 2025 Watson Fellowship Meira Smit ’25 will be traveling to Canada, Ecuador, Germany, India, and Kenya to investigate how small-scale farms are responding to the increasing threats posed by global climate change. Professor Beth Severy-Hoven receives the 2025 Jefferson Award Dr. Beth Severy-Hoven, professor of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East, was selected by a committee of past Jefferson Award winners. Music icon Bob Mould to deliver keynote address for 2025 Commencement Mould, who formed the punk rock band Hüsker Dü with two friends during his first year at Macalester in 1978, will also receive an honorary degree. Previous Next