Carleton Now

The Minneapolis teacher fulfilled a lifelong dream by competing on the game show.

Seven Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) student-athletes are among a record 585 nominees for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year award. Of those very deserving individuals, the MIAC has selected Carleton's Ziyi Wang and Gustavus' Nora Holtan to serve as the Conference's nominees.

Two members of the Carleton College faculty were promoted to full professor by the Board of Trustees, effective Sept. 1, 2019.

Dani Kohen, Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant (#1900590) for a three-year project entitled “RUI: Molecular Insight into Cation Motion within Zeolites.” NSF funding will enable Prof. Kohen and her team of undergraduate researchers to conduct an in-depth computational study of the design and identification of zeolites – porous minerals commony used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts – in a variety of industrial processes.

Gao Hong, Director of the Chinese Music Ensemble and Senior Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments, was awarded a 2019-20 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Musicians. Only four musicians out of 79 applying received the fellowship. Gao became the first musician in any genre to win five McKnight Artist Fellowships for Performing Musicians administered by the MacPhail Center for Music. See the 2019-2020 McKnight Fellowship Recipient Press Release.