The Carleton College Board of Trustees has awarded tenure to three faculty, as announced by Elizabeth McKinsey, dean of the college.

John Bare, Carleton professor emeritus of psychology, dies.

Carleton received a $500,000 challenge grant from National Endowment for the Humanities. Funds will support new cross cultural studies program.

The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research has given a $1 million grant to support the University of Washington’s Medical Scientist Training Program and Kyle Garton ’94 was selected as one of the first Allen Scholars. Students in the MST program complete an 8-year combined M.D./Ph.D. degree program. MST scholars are selected for their history of academic excellence and their potential as future physician scientists. Dr. Mary-Claire King ’67, a professor at University of Washington School of Medicine, first approached the foundation with the suggestion it support the MST program. King majored in mathematics and Garton in biochemistry at Carleton.

Apartment style living comes to Carleton with the opening of 23 townhouse units.

Carleton Dean of the College Elizabeth McKinsey announces plans to step down.

Carl H. Tape, a senior physics and geology major at Carleton College, is one of 32 American students recently selected as Rhodes Scholars. The Scholars were chosen from 950 applications endorsed by 327 colleges and universities in a nationwide competition. Rhodes Scholarships provide two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.

Several Carleton College students, faculty and alumni will present their research at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), to be held Nov. 12 through 16 in Reno, Nev.

James Lenfestey, a Minneapolis author of a collection of comedic stories titled “The Urban Coyote: Howlings on Family, Community and the Search for Peace and Quiet,” will read from his work at the First United Church of Christ on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. The reading is sponsored by the Carleton College Bookstore and is free and open to the public. The book will be available for purchase at the event.

This past weekend I told the Board of Trustees of my intention to retire as
President of Carleton at the end of the next academic year—June 2002.I will have completed fifteen years as Carleton’s President, and forty years full time as teacher, administrator, and economist. I decided it’s time for me to look to other activities—working in Africa, doing economics again, and spending time with Judy and with our family. I think it is also time for someone else to have the opportunity to serve Carleton.