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Written by Rocio Avila (’26) Have you ever wondered how to make the most of a liberal arts education at Carleton? For me, it happened when I discovered the power of…
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Life After Death for Dissection Specimens
28 March 2024Written by Cat Reed (’25), CARCAS Lab Manager According to the Animal Welfare Institute, approximately 20,000 to 50,000 cats are used for classroom dissections each year. These cats usually come…
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Beetles, Bones, and Bygone Times
23 January 2024Written by Cat Reed (’25), CARCAS Lab Manager As a student worker in the CARCAS lab, there are a wide range of jobs that I take part in, including preparing…
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Winter Break Work
2 December 2022The CARCAS Lab has been active this winter with the Towsley Endowment for the Sciences award funding continued student work through the break. Regular activities have continued on with the…
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Alpaca Excavation
14 October 2022On September 23rd, over 10 interested students and faculty traveled out to Cannon River Fiber Farm to excavate Jitterbug the alpaca. Jitterbug had died 4 year prior in 2018 and…
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3D Scanning and Digitization
26 September 2022After Mathew and the dermestid beetle colony finished cleaning off the bones acquired by the CARCAS Lab, Avery Blumenthal (he/him) oversaw their digitization. In partnership with the Makerspace and the…
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Specimen Preparation
17 February 2022The first major undertaking of Carleton’s CARCAS lab was a multi-phase project conducted over winter break, dedicated to the establishment of a physical and digital repository of all of CARCAS’s…
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Launching the Lab
1 November 2021We are excited to announce the launching of our new zooarchaeology lab on campus, the Carleton Archaeological Research Collection of Animal Specimens (CARCAS). The lab is a joint research project…