Carleton College professors Michael McNally and Roger Paas have been selected as two out of 180 scholars nationwide to each receive a $40,000 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The stipends, announced in February, will allow the scholars to spend up to a year working on individual research projects that contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public’s understanding of the humanities. In addition, McNally received an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship of $32,000 to continue his research for an additional two terms in 2005-6.

Steve Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, was quoted in a February 29 Saint Paul Pioneer Press article about the significance of Minnesota’s caucuses. Referring to the importance of Minnesota to the outcome of the Democratic race, Schier said that “Despite what we might want to think, we’re still largely an asterisk.”

Martha Clarke, a director and choreographer known for ground breaking and visually inspired work, will present convocation at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, March 5 in Carleton’s Concert Hall. Her talk is titled “Martha Clark: Building the Work” and is part of Carleton’s Ward Lucas Lecture Series in the Arts. Clarke will be accompanied by dancers Andrew Robinson and Gabrielle Malone who have appeared in Clarke’s “Vienna Lusthaus” and are currently rehearsing her work-in-progress on Toulouse-Lautrec, a 19th century French post-impressionist painter and printmaker. The event is free and open to the public.

The Carleton College Orchestra will perform its annual winter concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 5 in the Carleton Concert Hall. The concert program will include Symphony No. 103 in E flat (“Drum Roll”) by Franz Joseph Haydn and Symphony No. 7, Op. 105 (In einem Satze; “in one movement”) by Jean Sibelius. The concert is free and open to the public.

In a short notice visit to the Carleton campus, Democratic presidential candidate and Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich spoke to student, faculty and community members in Skinner Memorial chapel last Saturday afternoon. Brought to campus by the Carleton Democrats, Representative Kucinich outlined his most important stances to the standing room only audience.

WomenCircle, a program of Carleton’s Acting in the Community Together (ACT) Center, has received a $600 grant from the Northfield Area Foundation.

Carleton students, though busy studying as the term winds down, find time to get involved at Raise Your Voice, coordinated by the ACT office. At the annual event, students have the opportunity to write e-mails and letters to legislators, make phone calls to corporations and hear presentations from advocacy groups on campus.

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, co-authors of “Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future,” will give the Women’s History Month address at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25 in Carleton College’s Severance Great Hall. A book-signing will follow the talk. Both events, sponsored by the Carleton Gender and Sexuality Center, and are free and open to the public.

Philip Camill, assistant professor of biology, gave an invited lecture at the University of Minnesota on how climate change will impact permafrost and land cover dynamics in subarctic regions of Canada.

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.