Category: Faculty

International collaboration is a hallmark of Deborah Gross’s and Tsegaye Nega’s teaching.

Psychology professor Sarah Meerts believes introductory courses are just as important as advanced-level courses and projects. That’s why she partnered with postdoctoral fellow Brielle Bjorke to create Carleton’s first “Foundations in Neuroscience” course.

Carleton’s FOCUS Program has been awarded a 2018 “Inspiring Programs in STEM” Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. The national recognition honors programs that are making a difference for all under-represented groups in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Carleton Professors Sarah Meerts (Psychology and Neuroscience) and Rika Anderson (Biology), along with Laura Listenberger, a Biology professor at St. Olaf, were recently awarded a Broom Public Scholarship Project Grant for their new project, Conversations on the Wonders of Science (COWS). 

Physics professor Arjendu Pattanayak led students through a two-course sequence on sustainable energy combining interdisciplinary study with hands-on experience.

Debby Walser Kuntz is as immunologist who is a professor in the Carleton Biology Department. She served at Broom Faculty Fellow from 2013 to 2016. During her tenure as Broom Fellow she focused on public scholarship in public health and the sciences as well as building public health opportunities at Carleton.  She sat down with us to reflect on her time as Broom Fellow and on public scholarship at Carleton.

Carleton Undergraduate Bridge Experience (CUBE), an online summer 2016 course, helped a cohort of incoming freshmen strengthen their quantitative skills.

Tsegaye Nega’s personal mission to bring affordable, efficient cooking stoves to Ethiopia grew into a massive interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together a diverse group of Carleton faculty, staff, and students.

Tsegaye Nega used to watch helplessly as Carleton students struggled to make sense of the needs in Ethiopia during OCS trips. Now, he’s aiming to give back.

Today, more than ever, instruction in science and the liberal arts mutually reinforce each other. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM, as the disciplines are called collectively—pervade the national dialog. What’s missing in many conversations about education, work, and life is the broader integration of STEM, replete with the many ways of knowing and understanding our world.