Category: Students

GWSS and PSYC major Annanya Sinha ’25 was featured in the Carleton News for giving remarks during Commencement 2025. During Sinha’s speech, which they titled, “A Love Letter to My Professors,” Sinha emphasized how Carleton courses have challenged their ego, pride, and existing knowledge, with talented professors teaching them the most valuable skill of all: how to think critically.

SOAN major, GWSS minor, and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow Juan Garcia Reyes ’26 has been accepted into the 2025 American Sociological Association (ASA) Honors Program. This program introduces exceptional undergraduate sociology students to the professional life of the discipline through participation in special activities at the ASA Annual Meeting.

GWSS and Psychology major Annanya Sinha ’25 was featured in the September 2024 Student Life Newsletter in the “Staff and Student Highlights” section for being Carleton’s Mortar Board Chapter co-president and National Council Student Representative at-large.

SOAN major and GWSS minor Moe Kojima ’24 presented before a national panel of adjudicators at the American College Dance Conference, held this year at St. Olaf, with the Carleton Semaphore Repertory Dance Company. The company performed in the adjudicated concert with works by guest artist Elayna Waxse and by senior dance major d’Auria. Kojima performed an original solo in the Informal Concert.

Psychology major and GWSS minor Samira Gado ’24 presented a poster at the annual Psychonomic Society meeting in San Francisco with colleagues Mija Van Der Wege, associate professor of psychology, Ori Kim ’24, Sophie Rast ’24, and Sonia Shah ’24. The poster was titled, “Measuring the Closeness-Communication Bias in the Game Codenames.”

GWSS and Political Science/International Relations major and Spanish minor Mikhalina Solakhava ’23 received a 2023 Fulbright Award for an English Teaching Assistantship in Spain. Ten members of the Carleton Class of 2023 and three Carleton alumni from the Classes of 2019, 2021 and 2022 received Fulbright Awards this year from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, which gives college students and recent graduates the opportunity to travel the world and participate in advanced research and culturally immersive experiences.

GWSS major Art Onwumere ’24 was awarded a PFund Minnesota Scholarship for his active participation in Carleton’s IDE efforts as well as advocacy and leadership within LGBTQIA+ communities on campus.

CAMS major and GWSS minor Adrian Balvuena ’24 was featured in Carleton News for participating in the 2023 Festival de Cammes: Color of Life film screening, an event that displays the work of CAMS majors. Balvuena’s film “Boys in the Sun” is a queer coming-of-age story that “warps the spatial and temporal timeline of their romantic experiences to tell the story of this young couple.”

Psychology major and GWSS minor Samira Gado ’24 presented two posters at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association meeting in Chicago with colleagues Mija Van Der Wege, associate professor of psychology, and Amanda Lilienfeld ’23. The posters were titled, “This statement is false: labeling lies doesn’t help,” and “We’re just too different: outgroups lead to underestimated conversational effectiveness.” This work was completed with fellow students and alumni, including GWSS alumni Lauren Carothers-Liske ’22 and Miriam Freedman ’22.