2024-2025 Chemistry SDAs
Student Departmental Advisers (SDAs) are a select group of senior students whose primary function is to provide fellow students with accurate information about courses, pre-requisites, college requirements, registration procedures and other basic academic information, especially in their own departments. In addition, they provide information from their own experience which, presented as objectively as possible, can help students make appropriate choices for themselves.
These student advisers receive training to familiarize them with the academic information they need and ways of presenting this information. In some departments, SDAs also organize social events, host visitors, produce a department newsletter, design a department t-shirt, or do other tasks to strengthen the relationships among majors and/or between majors and departmental faculty.
SDAs are not assigned to specific students as advisers, but rather are available as a resource to all students, especially new students, who want to talk to a knowledgeable and experienced upperclass student about courses and registration. They supplement those formal advising systems already in effect. Faculty advisers, RAs, and OPLs have a list of the SDAs and may call upon them as needed.
SDAs serve the College as volunteers.
2024-2025 Chemistry Club
The Ring
“The Ring” is a chemistry club organized by junior and senior Chemistry majors. The club was initiated by Professor Chuck Carlin and gets its unusual name from the relationship between its full name (“Chuck Carlin’s Carleton College Chemistry Club” = C6) and the benzene ring. The group organizes social and community-building events for Chemistry majors and plays a major role in helping to advance department DEIR goals. The Ring, along with SDAs, also serves as the Department Curriculum Committee, providing input on curriculum decisions that affect Chemistry majors. New officers are elected each spring from the newly declared class of Chemistry majors.
