Carleton College News Bureau
Geology major Jahmaine Renzo (Jaren) Yambing ’22 from Rosemount, MN, has been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship for outstanding academic achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Established by Congress in 1989 to honor the memory of Senator Barry Goldwater, the scholarship awards up to $75,000 a year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors across the nation. Students first participate in an inter-school competition to get nominated for the nation-wide pool of applicants. This year, 410 college students received the scholarship from a pool of over 5,000 applications nominated by 438 academic institutions.
For the centerpiece of the application — a three-page research paper on the applicant’s field of study — Yambing wrote a proposal for research on carbon sequestration that he will conduct this summer with Carleton assistant geology professor Dan Maxbauer. Yambing will help pilot a new project in the agricultural fields of Carleton’s arboretum applying silicate rock dust to soils in order to increase the rate of chemical weathering reactions which sequester carbon.