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Karen Tei Yamashita ’73 was named the 2021 recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Engaging, funny, and warm, Yamashita talked with me last week from her sunny home office in Santa Cruz about the award, her career, and her time at Carleton.
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Carleton Connects: Mark Applebaum ’89 | October 12, 7pm Outside link
27 September 2021Join our online conversation on October 12 as composer, professor, and this term’s Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor Mark Applebaum ’89 discusses his unusual musical journey from his student days at Carleton to today.
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Join the Carleton College Alumni Book Club Outside link
22 September 2021Our selection for October to December is Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, which Dwight Garner of The New York Times called “an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”
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A Carleton Collaboration into Entrepreneurship Outside link
2 September 2021Kevin Bui ’24, Quoc Nguyen ’23 and Shannon Liu ’23 won the Carleton Start-up Fellowship Competition last spring and received a $10,000 grant to help fund their entryway into entrepreneurship. That was just the start of the Carleton connections for this new venture.