Posts tagged with “Academics” (All posts)
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Sam Neubauer ’17 Completes Environment Minnesota Internship
9 January 2014Sam Neubauer, a Carleton freshman, spent his winter break completing an internship with Environment Minnesota this month. Sam organized a statewide student (Holi)Day of Action to mobilize hundreds of Minnesota…
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Featured ACE Course: A Journey in Journalism
1 July 2013Among this spring’s ACE courses was “A Journey in Journalism”, a new course taught by New York Times journalist and visiting Carleton professor Doug McGill. Through the course students delved…
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On November 8th, the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton’s nexus for faculty development and pedagogical dialogue, hosted an event dedicated to ACE’s work in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics…
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Prof. Singer featured on NPR’s Science Friday
5 December 2011Prof. Susan Singer, a consistent supporter of ACE’s work in the natural sciences, was featured on NPR’s Talk of the Nation…
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Ben Somogyi ’12 reflects on teaching history to SCOPE students
19 October 2011Northfield, Minnesota, has more than its share of readers and writers. Countless historians have graduated from the esteemed programs at Carleton and St. Olaf. The Northfield Historical Society claims prime real estate in historic downtown. But, in more than 150 years since its founding, no one has written a comprehensive history of the town of cows, colleges, and contentment…
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For the second year in a row, a team of Carleton College students has moved to the final round in the national Debating for Democracy competition.
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2011 Civic Engagement Series: Housing and Inequality with Liz Kuoppala and Mike Thorsteinson
12 February 2011Monday, February 14th
5:30-7:30pm
Leighton 305
Liz Kuoppala and Mike Thorsteinson, two leaders on housing issues in Minnesota, will be featured in the 2011 Civic Engagement Series through an event entitled “Housing and Inequality: Issues and Next Steps from Leaders in the Field.”
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Featured Student: Ned Heckman ’13
9 February 2011“At first, I was skeptical of how tutoring would work,” says Ned Heckman ’13, remembering when he started his Educational Psychology course last fall. “But I realized that a lot of what we talk about our classes can be futile if we don’t try to experience it.” As part of the course’s academic civic engagement component…
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Prof. Abdi Kusow to speak about Somali immigration
19 January 2011Thursday, January 27th, 7:30-9:00pm, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Professor Abdi Kusow, a noted sociologist who has written extensively about African immigrants to North America, will be giving a talk entitled “Somali Immigrants in the United States: Conceptualizing Transnational Migration in a Stateless Global Context.”
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Minnesota Campus Compact highlights work of Carleton student
10 December 2010Charlotte Turovsky ’11, a Carleton senior and ACE Student Assistant, is one of Minnesota Campus Compact’s featured students. Charlotte attended the Campus Compact’s student leadership retreat this past October, and was part of a team of students were finalists in the Project Pericles Debating for Democracy 2010 policy letter contest in the Spring.