Rebekah Frumkin '12 is the focus of a story in the November 18 edition of the Northfield News regarding her recent inclusion in Dave Eggers anthology, "Best American Nonrequired Reading." Frumkin described her reaction to finding out her 14-page story would be included in the anthology. "It was like the gods came down and accepted me into their pantheon, however briefly,” she said. “It was being plucked out of obscurity.”

T.J. Stiles '86 is a finalist for the National Book Award, as reported in the Oct. 15 edition of the Star Tribune. Stiles is a finalist in nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," published by Alfred A. Knopf. Stiles told the newspaper that he was notified Tuesday, and that it was very hard to keep the news under his hat for 24 hours. He currently resides in San Francisco.

The Christian Science Monitor has an Oct. 9 feature story entitled "Universities try innovative ways to get grads jobs," and the piece prominently features the work programming of the Carleton career center. The story details Carleton's scholars program, as well as its externship model, which combines a short, intense work experience with a home-stay element with a Carleton graduate or parent. “We were career specialists so we wanted to know all the work place stuff. They wanted to move all the conversations to the home stay stuff,” Carleton's career center director Richard Berman said. “It got to a level of mentoring that I hadn’t seen in years and years of internships and my epiphany at that point was, ‘Wait, maybe we’ve got this all wrong.’ ”

Carleton's recent top grade on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's College Sustainability Report Card was mentioned in the Wednesday, Oct. 7 edition of the Star Tribune, as well as by Minnesota Public Radio. Carleton, along with fellow Minnesota higher educational institutions Macalester College and University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, all received an A- on the report card, the highest grade awarded by the group. You can view the entire rankings and each included institution's profile at http://www.greenreportcard.org/.

Paul Thiboutot, Carleton's vice president and dean of admissions and financial aid, is quoted extensively in a Sept. 28 article on InsideHigherEd.com regarding the recent influx of applicants from China to U.S. higher education institutions. The remarks were given at the National Association for College Admission Counseling gathering in Baltimore. Carleton College has 18 new students from China this year, and they are paying about half of their own expenses. In the past few years, the number of annual applications from China has grown to 300 from 50 or 60 most years at Carleton. "It's remarkable how the tide has shifted," Thiboutot said.

The Sept. 26 edition of the Star Tribune featured Carleton’s new environmental studies major. Kelsea Dombrovski ’11 (Kimball, Minn.) is quoted in the story. "With environmental studies, I could make connections to the real world," the junior said. "It's about real issues that people are actually dealing with." The story references Carleton’s academic fair and the high interest shown by students in the new major. "They just come in interested, then find their way to us," said Mark Kanazawa, Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciencesand Director of Environmental Studies. "Global warming and climate change have gotten a lot of attention in recent years. These issues are big, they're scary, and they make a young, conscientious person want to do something about them.”

Don Cooper, Carleton Class of 1962, was featured in a CBS Sunday Morning show segment about Asheville, N.C., and post-retirement opportunities.

Professor of Physics Nelson Christensen, along with research associate Marie Anne Bizouard (on sabbatical from the University of Paris-South), Tomoki Isoagai (Carleton Class of 2010), Greg Ely (Carleton Class of 2008), and Santiago Caride (Carleton Class of 2008), are the co-authors of an important paper recently published in Nature Magazine entitled "An Upper Limit on the Amplitude of Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin."

Tun Myint, assistant professor of political science, was interviewed by Radio Free Asia Burmese Section on the topic "Political Transitions in Conflict-Ridden Countries: The Case of Burma/Myanmar." His interview was aired in three parts on July 22, 29, and August 5. To download an audio broadcast, visit http://www.rfa.org/burmese/audio.

Recent graduate Aaron Kaufman, Carleton Class of 2009, was interviewed by and featured in an article by CNN Money/Fortune magazine for a gallery entitled "8 Summer Interns Who Beat The Recession."

Lara Zielen '98 and Sarah Quigley '98 shared the same class year but didn't know one another during their time on the Northfield campus. The Sunday, Aug. 16 edition of the Star Tribune uncovers that in their post-college lives as writers, however, the duo both recently released new books for young adults through Penguin, Quigley's "TMI," about a girl who reveals too much on her blog, came out in April. Zielin's book, "Donut Days," about a girl who hopes to win a scholarship by writing about a doughnut franchise, comes out this month. Both books mention Northfield, are set in a fictional Minnesota town and mention the cold weather.