NO MORE SNEEZING?
Alumna Christy Haynes '98 is the recipient of the prestigious 2008 New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She plans to build a cell-by-cell human immune system to identify potential therapeutic approaches for treating allergic reactions and asthma. "There's so much we don't know about the immune system, and this is a new way of looking at it and asking new questions."
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Come to campus for the arts• Art Professor Gary Erickson will show his video “2007 Minnesota – China Artist Exchange." The sixty-minute video is an insightful summary of his one-month residency at the Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute in Jingdezhen. more»
• New Music Series: Composer/Pianist Frederic Rzewski (pictured at right) more»
• Play: The Colored Museum more»
What is an XMAC laboratory? Professor Chad Topaz talks about what happens in the lab, patterns found in nature and how this Harvard scholar came to a liberal arts college. listen»
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E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist, gave the annual Opening Convocation titled, "What the Heck's Going on in the Presidential Campaign?" Listen to his talk»
Bank Bailout. Economics Professor Pete Ferderer was interviewed by NBC-affiliate KARE-11 on the current banking crisis. watch the interview»
NSF grant to help fund student-faculty research. Professor Tom Halverson was awarded a 3-year, $120,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on matrix representations of diagram algebras. A major part of this grant is to provide research support for students. This is Halverson's fourth NSF research grant, and this funding has supported summer research for 18 students.
Sarah Norton '95 took over in the kitchen when she was a teenager at home and now has turned her passion for food into a good business in one of Minnesota's historic towns, Red Wing. Read the article in the Rochester Post-Bulletin newspaper»
Actor James A. Williams, class of 1977, said in an interview with the Star Tribune, "It's my responsibility, as a father and son, as a brother and partner, to give a hand wherever I can." He recently returned from a trip to Africa where he was teaching children about theater. Read more in the Star Tribune»
FOX 9 News was on campus and visited with the Macalester Women's Rugby Club and coach Nadine Barten. watch the story»
