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Carleton College is a private liberal arts college located in Northfield, Minnesota. It has about 2,000 students and is consistently ranked in the top 10 U.S. News and World Report Best Liberal Arts Colleges. Named for benefactor William Carleton shortly after its founding in 1866, it has risen from the small congregational school that Thorstein Veblen attended to become what the Chicago Daily Tribune described in 1961 as a "little Harvard."

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• ...that Julia Larson '14 organized a chapter of The Long Now Foundation on campus?
• ...that T. J. Stiles' latest book, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, won the National Book Award for nonfiction?
• ...that The Lens Magazine received the Gold Medalist ranking from Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA)?
• ...that Northfield Metro Express has replaced the Co-op bus and offers $10.00 round trips to many stops in the Twin Cities on buses with free wi-fi connections?
• ...that Carleton College and WeCar, a car-sharing program, announced a new partnership on September 9th?
• ...that workers on a shoreline reconstruction project drained Lower Lyman Lake last summer as part of the island restoration project?
• ...that Stadium 110 is a quint in Laird Stadium that allegedly has the biggest common room on campus?

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• Carleton has received a grant of  $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of an endowment for the Postdoctoral Fellows Program in the Humanities. Carleton news release
• Eiler Henrickson ‘43, Charles L. Denison Professor of Geology emeritus, passed away on Dec. 10, 2009. (There will be a memorial service during reunion in June.)Carleton news release
• Greg Smith, Lloyd P. Johnson-Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts, was awarded a 2010 Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Prose) from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).Carleton news release
• Political Science Department chair Laurence Cooper has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant and will teach at Charles University in the Czech Republic this winter and spring. Carleton news release
• Laura Goering, professor of Russian, has won a National Outdoor Book Award for her book, Whistling Wings. News report NOBA web site
• Carleton’s men’s ultimate team, CUT, won the 2009 UPA College National Championship. Cut web site
• CarlWiki now features over 500 articles. The 500th article was on Faculty Club, an off-campus house located near Watson Hall.

• Saturday, February 6, Mid-Winter Ball, Sales-Severance Complex
• Friday, February 12, 10:50am, Skinner Memorial Chapel, Convocation speaker: Todd Larson '83, senior counselor at the New York Coordinator Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)