Home News Articles Page 5 Articles 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. Macalester Belongs to You President Rivera reflects on alumni ownership and belonging. Building Toward Racial Justice Mac community members take action and implement ideas, with support from college donors. Two Macalester alumni named 2023 Bush Fellows Kim Park Nelson ‘93 and Owen Duckworth ‘06 are among the 24 individuals who have been selected for 2023 Bush Fellowships. Rural Geography: Notes from the Field A first-year student takes us along on a geography class trip to rural Wisconsin. Announcing the Flemming Scholars Initiative Beginning this fall, a new initiative will expand the web of institutional support and remove those roadblocks in order to foster a sense of belonging for the college's highest-need students. Maccolades for May 2023: A flurry of success in forensics, Fulbrights, creative writing, sustainability, and more Maccolades is a monthly round-up of the most recent accolades and accomplishments earned by members of the Macalester community. Below are highlights from May 2023. Inclusive Initiatives: Equitable Access with OER The DeWitt Wallace Library explores open educational resources to center inclusivity, affordability Macalester earns top marks for sustainability efforts in national competition The college ranked #1 among small schools in three categories: Zero Waste, Food Organics, and Diversion. Two Macalester students awarded $10k grant to empower teachers in Brazil Macalester students Valeska Kohan ‘23 and Amanda de Souza ‘25 have been awarded $10,000 from Davis Projects for Peace. The Science of Protest: Bridging Academia and Activism A political science course seeks to connect academic research on the effectiveness of protest to the lived experience, efforts, and goals of protesters. Honors Project Insights We asked five seniors to tell us about their yearlong research projects. Eleven new tenure-track professors join Macalester’s faculty Eleven new tenure-track faculty members representing a broad range of disciplines will be joining Macalester in the coming months. Story-writing intern brings ideas together As part of her environmental studies capstone, Julia Chamberland has been writing stories for Minnesota Upstream. Macalester student receives Phi Beta Kappa scholarship Macalester junior Holiday O’Bryan ‘24 received Phi Beta Kappa’s (PBK) undergraduate Key into Public Service scholarship. Record number of Macalester students selected for U of Chicago’s summer economics program The Expanding Diversity in Economics program is designed to "identify and support talented undergraduate students from a broad range of backgrounds who are interested in the study of economics." A Passion for Teaching, and Teaching for Passion Nick Shriver '18 is currently working at Little Wound School in South Dakota as an 8th and 9th grade English and Social Studies teacher and high school football coach. Mactivism Student activists have long helped shape Macalester policies—and have learned lasting lessons from their advocacy. Books: Spring 2023 Books recently published by Macalester alumni, faculty, and staff. The Future of Therapy is… In the wake of some of the most collectively challenging years of our lives, four alumni practitioners weigh in. A Look Back at Unfiltered College is a time of change and growth. Unfiltered is an effort to capture a snapshot of that student transformation. Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 30 Next