Kathleen Galotti, professor of psychology and cognitive studies, served on the winter Cognition and Perception Grant Review Study Section for the National Institutes of Health.

Tou Ger Xiong ’96 was featured in a February 25 Chicago Tribune article titled “Finding comedy in tragedy” about his career as the only Hmong comedian in America. In his act, he includes his experiences facing the Vietnam War and the retreat of American troops. Xiong’s career also was featured in a February 19 article in the Steven’s Point (Wisc.) Journal titled “Hmong rapper teaches diversity through laughter.” Xiong majored in political science at Carleton.

More than 80 Girl Scouts from southern Minnesota attended Girl Scout Thinking Day at Carleton last Saturday. An event aimed at teaching Girl Scouts about life around the world, Carleton’s Thinking Day promoted awareness of global environmental and political issues.

Christine Kinealy will present the Carleton College history department Herbert P. Lefler Lecture titled “Remembering the Great Hunger” at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24 in Leighton Hall, Room 305. This event is free and open to the public.

President Robert A. Oden Jr. performed with the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers last Sunday, narrating a a humorous suite of music conceived by Garrison Keillor that tells the roller-coaster story of a rebellious church choir that hits the “big time” and abandons the church basement for the rock star lifestyle.

Lawrence Lessig, a leading legal mind in the arena of intellectual property, will present a convocation titled “Rebuilding the Creative Commons” at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 in Carleton’s Skinner Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Carleton College choral groups, including the Carleton Singers, Bella Cantemus and Cantatores Exquisiti, will perform separately and as a mass chorus at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 in the Carleton College Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a February 23 Duluth News Tribune article about how Minnesota’s deficit could put a damper on the legislature’s stadium bill. “If you devote serious time, attention and energy to stadiums at a time when a lot of other Minnesotans are suffering from budget cuts, it’s going to look bad even if there are no general revenues involved,” Schier said.

Gregory Hewett, assistant professor of English, will have four poems in the forthcoming issue of the journal Salt Hill.

Carleton faculty members and guest artists will give a chamber music concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28 in the Carleton College Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.