Carleton News: Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity Earns LEED®...
Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity has earned LEED® Gold certification, as established by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI)....
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Erin McKittrick '01: Returning to Human Scale
walking down the icy dock for our 4:30AM departureBeginning4:00 AM. 9 degrees Farenheit. I lifted the sleeping kids out of their beds, already dressed in their outside gear, to walk down the squeaky...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton College Students and Alumni to Debut Films at...
Two films with Carleton College connections are set to make their world premier at this year’s Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Film Festival.
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton College Hosts “5K for Hope;” Proceeds Benefit The...
Carleton College will host “5K for Hope,” a fun run/walk on Saturday, May 11 through the Carleton Cowling Arboretum with proceeds to benefit The Hope Center, whose mission is to create zero tolerance...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Ruin Academy: Urban Lab in an Abandoned Building
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Occupying an abandoned five-story apartment building in central Taipei, Ruin Academy is a living architectural laboratory where holes drilled in the...
View ArticleAvery Morrow '10: Reikai Monogatari in English. Book 64-2, Chapter 1
Reikai Monogatari, the Tale of the Spirit World, is an enormous sacred text by Onisaburo Deguchi, “the Gurdjieff of the East.” The Oomoto (“Great Root”) religious movement in Japan, from which...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Smog and other pollutants have costs
Sometimes, even in an authoritarian system, externalities become important. Deadly air pollution, undrinkable water, dead pigs in rivers, and contaminated food can take legitimacy away from a...
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Benjamin Lenzner: beside the indus river - around the indus valley.
on the 3rd or 4th day in leh, i had gotten over my high altitude take it slow meandering around the grounds of the guesthouse and exploring the quiet market of leh, most of it shuttered until the road...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Akong's Revenge
Akong's RevengeStealing the nest of loving kindnesswith the false egg of resentmentthat hatches the chick of envy and pride.
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Parinirvana Day of VCTR 2013
“Chaos is very good news”…and you’ve given us suchgood news lately, inscrutableall pervasive being that watchesus like a hawk with an eye as bigas the universe. The miracle of you continually expands.
View ArticleCarleton News: Schier receives Fulbright Chair appointment in Sweden
Steven Schier, Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, has received a 2013-2014 award as the Swedish Institute for North American Studies (SINAS) Fulbright Chair at Uppsala...
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Alison Sommer '05: Dog-tatchment parenting?
There are lots of different parenting philosophies out there. I'll name a few, but can respect elements from many. For example, attachement parenting is full of cosleeping and breastfeeding and baby...
View ArticleCarleton News: Fulbright Fellowship Awarded to Justin London
Justin London, professor of music, has received a Fulbright Fellowship to spend January through June of 2014 at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Music Research at the University of...
View ArticleCarleton News: "Print Profs" Exhibition Showcases Hagstrom's Work
Fred Hagstrom, Rae Schupack Nathan Professor of Art, has his work included in the "Print Profs" exhibition at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis. The work includes prints of various...
View ArticleCarleton News: Wilkie Elected President of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield
Nancy Wilkie, William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology, and the Liberal Arts, has been elected President of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, a nonprofit organization committed to the...
View ArticleCarleton News: The Star Tribune Discusses the Weight of the Valedictorian...
The March 29 edition of the Star Tribune discussed how the process of valedictorian selection has come under fire at many Minnesota high schools. While more schools opt for a weighted GPA system, the...
View ArticleCarleton News: Pattanayak Presents at Southwest Quantum Information and...
Arjendu Pattanayak, professor of physics, recently attended the Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Fifteenth Annual Meeting with research students Peter Duggins '13 and Henry Luo '13....
View ArticleCarleton News: The Scientist Applauds Todd Golub’s ‘85 Cancer Research Findings
The April 1 edition of The Scientist commends the progress made by Todd Golub ’85 in the field of cancer research. Golub and his colleagues have made powerful developments in scrutinizing gene...
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Erik Brooks: Harts Pass No. 146
Spring break in the North Cascades... and else where. Small wonders!
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Kevin Draper '10: March Gladness: A Bracket with Watchable Professionals...
In the past week Louisville’s Kevin Ware brutally broke his leg live on national TV and his team rushed to profit from it, Rutgers coach Mike Rice was fired after a video was released of him hurling...
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