Features

When he was six, Fred Lessing ’58 (1936–2025) was hidden from the Nazis. As an adult, he made the spirit of the child a way of life and healing.

Dr. Tom Dean ’67 gathered good ideas from the greater world, starting at Carleton, then brought them home to South Dakota.

How a Carleton statistics project is making a real-world impact in one of Minneapolis’s most diverse neighborhoods.

Jonathan Capehart ’89 begins his memoir, Yet Here I Am, with an epigraph by Cary Grant: “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until I finally became that person. Or he became me.”

The new Class of 1974 Center serves as a one-stop, holistic health provider centering student health, well-being, and accessibility.

During Common Time on the last week of spring term, we headed out to find out how our faculty made a difference for students.

To illustrate our cover story, artist Mike McQuade used a variety of sources, from public domain images from city plat books and police manuals to documentary photography by Carleton Digital Content Producer Zach Spindler-Krage.

The mystery behind an iconic photograph of Washington, D.C., in the 1970s leads back to Carleton, revealing a story of hope and change, friendship and loss.

James Beard Prize–winning restaurant critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl ’92 returns to dine at Burton.

“Behind the cool entrepreneur façade, you’ll find exhausted-to-the-bone, occasionally zombie-like, small business owners buckling under the weight of their worlds.”