Fall 2020

An excerpt from an original essay that University of Illinois English professor David Wright ’86 read on air for The Texas Standard, an Austin-based public radio program in Texas

This is not the column I envisioned writing when planning for this issue of the Voice began. Events have a tendency to overtake our feeble plans, though, teaching us what is truly important and what demands our personal attention and institutional action.

Designers have moved from the studio to the lab to create materials for clothing and construction that take a lighter toll on our planet.

The six scholars granted tenure recently are studying machine learning, Bronze Age Greece, Chinese microblogging, and much more.

Congratulations to the Class of 2020! We are so proud of your accomplishments and we wish you all the best as you begin the next chapter of your lives.

Members of Carleton’s Black Student Alliance talk with philosophy fellow Eddie O’Byrn about racism and a vision for justice.

Dan Dougherty ’49 recalls the day he and his fellow American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp.

Carleton’s philosophy class “Death, Dinner, and Discussion” offers students a chance to consider the unthinkable.

In May the Navajo Nation had one of the highest infection rates in the country. By July, thanks to the collaborative efforts of health care workers and doctors like Jill Moses ’86, the numbers had improved drastically.

Photograph by John Noltner at the George Floyd memorial site in Minneapolis.