Bald Spot

For 44 years, Ed Buchwald has introduced a troop of Northfield Boy Scouts to the great outdoors: hiking with them up mountains in Montana and Wyoming, canoeing rivers, exploring caves, and walking the length of Isle Royale National Park.

Martha Larson, Carleton’s manager of campus energy and sustainability, and her team of student assistants support a variety of green initiatives on campus.

Everything old is new again in Margaret Evans Hall, which reopened in January following an extensive renovation.

Shantrice King ’13 taught a course called The Courage to Write to 20 Faribault High School students over the summer.

Student art assistants hold “office hours” to expose some of their favorite finds to a wider audience.

We asked alumni on Facebook to design their dream Carleton courses.

A little mendicant has taken up residence in a niche outside the cinema in the Weitz Center for Creativity.

Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave a convocation address on October 26, 2012.

Carleton students win Fulbrights, an alumnus establishes a scholarship, Carleton teams up with St. Olaf, and faculty members take on new responsibilities.

A Beacon So Bright: The Life of Laurence McKinley Gould, released in November, is the first book-length biography of the iconic Carleton president, polar explorer, and education advocate.