Jazz guitarist David Singley, who also is an adjunct music instructor at Carleton, was featured in jazzpolice.com because of his March 23 appearance at The Dakota in Minneapolis. The web site wrote, “Don’t miss the opportunity to hear one of the finest interpreters of jazz guitar.”

Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Cngdon Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a front page story in USA Today on March 13, 2006. In the article, titled “Conflict Will Define Bush’s Role in History,” Schier is quoted as saying, “They were expecting to move on to a bunch of other things in the second term like Social Secuirty reform and the ‘ownership society,’ but all that has been pushed aside becasue of Iraq. It’s the whale in the bathtub for the administration.”

An article on Rice County wind turbines, prominently featuring Carleton’s own wind turbine, appeared in the March 11, 2006, issue of the Faribault Daily News. Senior project manager Robert Lamppa was interviewed and photographed for the story.

In the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education‘s March 17, 2006, weekly bulletin, Carleton College was cited for its successful Dorm Wars initiative, which led to a drastic decrease in energy use in February.

In a March 16, 2006, article in the Star Tribune about where Minnesota high school graduates attend college, Carleton was mentioned as a “very selective private school” that enrolled 130 Minnesotans in 2004.

The John Templeton Foundation shifted the focus of its Templeton Prize recently, now celebrating those who advance “progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities.” Science & Spirit magazine asked past Templeton Prize recipients, including Ian Barbour, Carleton’s Winifred & Atherton Bean Professor of Science, Technology & Society, Emeritus, what discoveries in this field they hope to see in the future. Barbour noted that, “It will be a continuing challenge to encourage religious communities to take seriously the well-supported theories of contemporary science.”

Andrew Knoll ’05, an intern in the Guthrie Theater’s Literary Department, wrote an essay called “First Impressions” that appeared in the Guthrie’s program guide to its production of Hamlet. Knoll was a philosophy major at Carleton.

The Record Show Poster Show, which runs through March 10 in the Carleton College Art Gallery, was prominently featured in the Star Tribune South‘s calendar section on March 8, 2006.

The Star Tribune had a article in its March 7, 2006, issue about Carleton senior Steve Harris, Roseville, Minnesota, who last week won a $7,500 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He followed that up by winning the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs at the MIAC Indoor Championships, breaking the 23-year-old MIAC 5,000-meter record. He was later chosen to compete in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Gould Library’s reference librarian trading cards were featured in the March 3, 2006, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, complete with color reproductions of the cards. “We feel like they make us more approachable,” Carolyn Sanford, head of reference, told the Chronicle. The cards have been a hit with both students and faculty members, she added.