Another issue of the Carleton College Voice is in the can, my fourth as editor. Highlights:

• Kao Kalia Yang, the Minnesota Star Tribune’s artist of the year (2024) and a 2003 Carleton grad, writes about TRIO, the student support program that helped her and other low-income and first-generation students overcome academic, financial, and cultural challenges to fully participate in college life.

• Tim Gihring profiles writer and public historian Jack El-Hai as his 2014 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist is turned into Nuremberg, a Hollywood blockbuster starting Rami Malek and Russell Crowe. (With photography by Bobby Rogers)

• Bobby Rogers brings his trademark photographic style to a piece on the return of alumni Roger Faust to his alma mater as only the second Indigenous hire; he’ll be teaching land management in the Environmental Studies department.

• With Jaws set to turn 50 in 2025, alumni journalist Liz Ryan looks into research on sharkmania’s odd staying power by UT-Austin professor Janet Davis.

• And more…