Posts tagged with “Mathematics and Natural Science” (All posts)
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Strength in Numbers
28 February 2017Carleton Undergraduate Bridge Experience (CUBE), an online summer 2016 course, helped a cohort of incoming freshmen strengthen their quantitative skills.
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Field Guide to Mudd Hall
28 February 2017“If you spend 25 years anywhere, you’re going to have some spatial sentimental attachment. But we’re reproducing the best parts of Mudd in the new building.”
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Integrating STEM with the Liberal Arts
23 May 2016Today, 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.
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Rock Star Researchers
23 May 2016“Woodstock for physicists” is how Carleton physics professor Nelson Christensen describes the Washington, D.C., press conference at which scientists announced their groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves.
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Putting Carleton on the Celestial Map
1 March 2016The final telescope, a 16.2-inch Brashear refractor purchased for $15,000 (more than $390,000 in today’s dollars), was made by Pittsburgh’s famed John Brashear Company, arrived in 1890, and was placed beneath the larger dome.
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Lab Rats
26 November 2015Chemistry professor Matt Whited works with student research assistants to learn about chemical synthesis and reaction discovery.
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The Electric Brain
6 February 2015“You’ll have a computer that will be able to understand you. The better you concentrate, the faster the computer will know what you want.”
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Popular Science
23 April 2013Emily Stevens ’85 is a managing producer for SciGirls, an award-winning public television show that encourages young girls to excel in math and science.
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