On Thursday at Common Time, Carleton students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Chapel for Dr. Susan Rankin’s presentation of the Campus Climate Survey results. The Campus Climate Survey has been a 2-year project that began May 2007. The actual survey was produced and distributed last April. Thursday afternoon, the…
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Professor Gary Wagenbach, Winfred and Atherton Bean Professor of Biology, Science, Technology, and Society and Director of Environmental and Technology Studies has recently announced his retired from teaching at Carleton, where he has taught for the past 39 years. He says of the time he has spend at Carleton, “it…
Junior Mya Dosch, Art History Major, has been awarded the Beinecke Scholarship, which gives grants to selected humanities, arts, and social science scholars from across the nation each year. According to the official website, “Since 1975 the program has selected more than 410 college juniors from 97 different schools for…
Sean Sweetnam ‘08, a physics major, has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and will travel to Switzerland, where he will attend Neuchatel University and conduct research on solar cells. Sweetnam gives many reasons for his decision to accept the Fulbright. “The Fulbright is a great opportunity to continue studying physics.…
Senior Miranda Fix, Mathematics major and French and Francophone Studies concentrator, was awarded the English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) Fulbright and will spend 10 months, starting this fall, in Yilan, Taiwan. The Fulbright Program awards grants to individuals, including college graduates, planning to teach or do research in foreign countries. The…
Senior Amber Hollenbeck, a German major, is one of three Carls awarded the Fulbright Scholarship this year. Unlike the other two Carleton recipients, who were awarded the traditional Fulbright Scholarship, Hollenbeck applied and was accepted to the Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program which is affiliated with the Fulbright Institute of…
Senior Mary Ellen Stitt, a Spanish major, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Brazil for 10 months after graduation, where she will teach at a music school for low-income kids. Although the Fulbright program has yet to inform her of her exact location in Brazil, Stitt said, “I’m…
Senior Michael Duyzend, Chemistry and Mathematics double major and biochemistry concentrator will soon add the Gates Cambridge Scholarship to his resume. The Gates is a full scholarship opportunity for students from outside the UK to pursue graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. It is awarded annually to…
Along with the upcoming closure of the dining hall contract by spring term, the Sayles Hill space may be facing modifications, according to Fred Rogers, Vice President and Treasurer. “Preliminary plans have been drawn for renovating the snack bar,” Rogers said. Proposals about these possible renovations have been included in…
On Friday February 22, Edith A. Widder, Senior Scientist of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, presented convocation. Her talk was entitled “New Technologies to Discover our World.” Widder’s many accomplishments include co-founding the Ocean Research Conservation Association (ORCA) in 2005, the creation of the Eye in the Sea camera system,…