Category: News

The Carleton Alumni Book Club will begin reading Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives, by Michael Heller and James Salzman.

Norco, Calif., will be taken over by Carls at the Division I and Division III USA Ultimate College Championships on Dec. 17–20, 2021. Carleton is the only college or university in the country sending four teams, totaling about 5% of the student body, to the West Coast competition.

On November 8, Carleton launched the First Generation @ Carleton website, bringing visibility to faculty, staff, and students who identify as first generation scholars. This resource serves as an introduction of fellow first-gen scholars to the 13% of incoming Carleton students who are in the first generation of their families to attend college.

The IDE Strategic Plan Steering Group is pleased to provide an update on the first phase of Carleton’s Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity Strategic Plan. We encourage community members to read more about the Five Working Groups that have been charged with developing specific recommendations for accomplishing the goals and objectives Carleton has set.

Marty Baylor, Chair and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, is quickly becoming a national leader in promoting IDE in physics and STEM as a whole. The recipient of a $200,000 grant from the American Physical Society (APS), Baylor will run a national program which will improve physics teachers’ ability to address IDE projects in the classroom.

Two Carleton professors, Rika Anderson ’06 and Layla Oesper, were awarded National Science Foundation CAREER Awards. The awards are the two largest grants to individual faculty in Carleton’s history, together totaling almost $1 million.

Karen Tei Yamashita ’73 was named the 2021 recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Engaging, funny, and warm, Yamashita talked with me last week from her sunny home office in Santa Cruz about the award, her career, and her time at Carleton.

Kevin Bui ’24, Quoc Nguyen ’23 and Shannon Liu ’23 won the Carleton Start-up Fellowship Competition last spring and received a $10,000 grant to help fund their entryway into entrepreneurship. That was just the start of the Carleton connections for this new venture.