Last March, psychology majors Rebecca Gourevitch ’12 and Colin MacArthur ’12 met with Janet Lewis Muth, the director of Growing Up Healthy, to begin a year-long civic engagement project that would serve as the duo’s senior thesis...

Northfield, Minnesota, has more than its share of readers and writers. Countless historians have graduated from the esteemed programs at Carleton and St. Olaf. The Northfield Historical Society claims prime real estate in historic downtown. But, in more than 150 years since its founding, no one has written a comprehensive history of the town of cows, colleges, and contentment...

“My students would write wonderful research papers,” remembers Biology professor Debby Walser-Kuntz. “But the problem was, I was their only audience.” As an undergraduate student, Prof. Walser-Kuntz...

Kate Adkins's work on public health projects started in an unexpected way: tutoring. "I really wanted to be in the community," the senior Biology major recalls...

“At first, I was skeptical of how tutoring would work,” says Ned Heckman ’13, remembering when he started his Educational Psychology course last fall. “But I realized that a lot of what we talk about our classes can be futile if we don’t try to experience it.” As part of the course’s academic civic engagement component...