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The most recent cadre of retiring faculty talks about what brought them to Carleton, how they and the college changed over the years, and what their successors should know.
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When writer David Wright Faladé ’86 senses the stars are aligned in an advantageous constellation, he habitually raps the nearest solid surface. “Knock on wood,” he’ll say with a knowing nod.
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A minor planet, discovered by the NASA–funded Catalina Sky Survey, was officially named for Carleton’s fourth president, the late Laurence “Larry” McKinley Gould.
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In his new book, Roger Jackson—John Nason Professor of Asian Studies, emeritus—traces the evolution of Buddhist views of the afterlife, with its ideas of multiple cycles of birth and rebirth, along with the related concept of karma, across three millennia.
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Between February and May 2022, three Carleton faculty members were awarded tenure. When reaching out to ask the recipients about the honor, we found a universal sense of pride in both Carleton broadly and the accomplishment specifically.
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Provost Michelle Mattson began her work at Carleton on July 15, 2022, after serving as provost and professor of German at Wittenberg University.
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The Oakland Ballet Company came to campus in September to perform works by Phil Chan ’06, the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Dance for fall term.
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Marcy Averill began work as Carleton’s inaugural Indigenous communities liaison in September.
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Alumni and friends returned to campus in August for the make-up Milestone Reunion, celebrating the classes of ’15, ’16, ’96, ’70, and ’71 who missed their reunions in 2020 and 2021.
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Director Lee Conrads ’12 and musical director Raymond Berg ’79 are on campus this fall working with Carleton’s theater department on a production of Indecent.