Laura Billings Coleman
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From the Fall 2025 edition of Macalester Today Of the many business enterprises threatened by climate change, beer may be the most ubiquitous.  Though it’s still the most popular alcoholic beverage on the planet, growing demands on water resources and challenges facing the farming of barley and hops mean beer is now facing a cloudy future.  But there’s some cheering news coming out of Denmark, where global beer and beverage giant Carlsberg has been making big strides toward m

Katherine Ann Rowlands '88 is leading a local news renaissance from her own backyard By Laura Billings Coleman | Macalester Today, Summer...

Written for the 2025 edition of MCAD's CUT/PASTE To celebrate her sixtieth birthday, Patricia Olson ’98, MFA, painted a self-portrait in...

Written for the 2025 edition of MCAD's CUT/PASTE Gina Louise ’94  makes sculpture on a grand scale, from recreating the geology of...

Written for the 2025 edition of MCAD's CUT/PASTE In the arts you’re taught to have a high tolerance for risk and uncertainty, which is...

Written for the 2025 edition of MCAD's CUT/PASTE As a member of the Prairie Island Indian Community, Cole Redhorse Taylor ’17 believes...

“People still like to romanticize the idea that ‘If you build it, they will come,’ but that never works,” says creative place-making...

Written for the 2025 edition of MCAD's CUT/PASTE A celebrated member of the Pictures Generation, James Casebere ’76 is renowned for his...

Will Steger called it the biggest coincidence of his life when, during his historic 1986 dogsled expedition to the North Pole, his team...

My old friend Keiko the killer whale is the topic of a new Serial Productions podcast exploring the ambitious effort to reintroduce the...

Duke divinity school professor, author and podcaster Kate Bowler, ‘02, takes aim at our cultural obsession with perfection and toxic...

Going to vote always reminds me of my favorite ESL student who was not nearly as impressed by democracy as I thought she should be. She's...

As the number of migrants crossing the border from Mexico into the US surged in 2023, so has the American public’s concerns about...

Incoming President Brian Voerding shares the Initiative Foundation’s vision for building community through solutions-based programs,...

John McCormick picked up the bagpipes at the age of 11, taking lessons from Macalester College pipe band leader John Ford, and trying his...

Challenged by shrinking local newsrooms and changing readership, rural communities look for new ways to connect and tell their stories By...

Campus therapy canines come to the rescue of homesick, heartsick, and homework-stressed Mac students. BY LAURA BILLINGS COLEMAN...

As Americans gear up for another grueling presidential election season in 2024, a new Pew Research Center poll finds that only 10 percent...

With playful persistence, award-winning puppeteer Chris Griffith, '92 is working to keep the Cherokee language alive On a Saturday...

With frequent TikTok posts about her tireless quest to win the Federal Duck Stamp Competition, Kira Sabin   ‘21 has amassed an...