Category: Courses & Independent Study

Now in its eighth year, Carleton’s annual Empty Bowls Fundraiser has raised thousands of dollars for the Northfield Community Action Center’s Food Shelf. Carleton students, alumni, faculty, and friends have…

On Saturday February 18th, Carleton students and faculty helped HealthFinders with a community gathering for input, as they open a new clinic for uninsured and low income individuals in Rice County. As part of Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg’s Anthropology of Health and Illness course, students helped organize questions for the focus groups, which they will discuss in their end-of-term research papers. HealthFinders will then use the students’ research to guide the creation of the new clinic.

The Northfield Patch has featured a project between ACE and the Northfield High School…

Josh Woods just finished his first semester at Hamline University with a 3.3 GPA, barely missing the cutoff for the dean’s list…

On November 8th, the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton’s nexus for faculty development and pedagogical dialogue, hosted an event dedicated to ACE’s work in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics…

Prof. Susan Singer, a consistent supporter of ACE’s work in the natural sciences, was featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation…

November 8th was the official date for Northfield to decide between raising property taxes or cutting school budgets. But on October 28th the Mayor’s Youth Council gave many students a chance to share their opinions on an issue directly affecting them, even though most were not old enough to vote on the referendum…

Last March, psychology majors Rebecca Gourevitch ’12 and Colin MacArthur ’12 met with Janet Lewis Muth, the director of Growing Up Healthy, to begin a year-long civic engagement project that would serve as the duo’s senior thesis…

At the Weitz Center for Creativity through Sunday, Oct. 23rd

Beginning Friday, October 14^th, Carleton College is excited to reopen the “Frames of Engagement” photography exhibit in rooms 226 and 229 at the Weitz Center for Creativity. The exhibit premiered on September 17^th and remained on display through the 23^rd, but is now back by popular demand until Sunday, October 23^rd…

Northfield, Minnesota, has more than its share of readers and writers. Countless historians have graduated from the esteemed programs at Carleton and St. Olaf. The Northfield Historical Society claims prime real estate in historic downtown. But, in more than 150 years since its founding, no one has written a comprehensive history of the town of cows, colleges, and contentment…