Category: Research

The Helen Fellowship is a one-year residency for post-baccalaureate, self-identifying women to devote time immersed in computational scientific research and educational outreach at the Amercian Museum of Natural History (AMNH),…

The two are among 496 scholarship recipients from an application pool of over 5,000 nationwide.

Haoyi Wang ’19, a mathematics major with a minor in music performance from Chengdu, China tells us about her senior capstone experience, or “Comps,” in support of her math degree.

Arjendu Pattanayak, Professor of Physics, presented recent results on ‘Using quantum back-action to control quantum chaotic systems’ at his former homes in Texas at the University of Texas at Austin, and Rice University on Friday, October 12 and Monday, October 15. This reported on work done with Yueheng Shi ’21, Sacha Greenfield ’19, Jessica Eastman (Australian National University), and Andre Carvalho (Griffiths University). 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics Barry Costanzi published a paper titled “Noise in Mesoscale Magnetic Dots from Random Telegraph Noise to 1/f Noise” in the journal IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, with collaborators from the University of Minnesota and from Honeywell International Inc. The paper discusses experimental work on the characterization and engineering of thermal fluctuations (or “noise”) in magnetic samples on the mesoscale (~100s of nm in size), with applications toward explaining the origin of noise signals in many other physical systems. Costanzi also presented his work in an invited talk at the International Conference on Magnetism in San Francisco this summer.

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

Well into her career, Stephanie Watowich ’83 has made a point to help fellow Carls gain real research experience—including Malavika Suresh ’18.

Among the many reasons Carleton enjoys a strong reputation in the sciences is its penchant for project-based learning. Research is built into the undergraduate experience here—something students at other colleges might not experience until graduate school.

“The teachers here do a lot of research and put you in an experimental mindset,” says Malavika Suresh ’18 (Maple Grove, Minn.), a chemistry major. “You can take as many lecture classes as you want, but actually doing research teaches you in such a different way.”

“We now have a place that is a huge benefit not just to animal species, but also as an academic resource to students and faculty members in art, biology, geology, archeology, and anthropology.”

Study published in BioScience shows 78 endangered species face known hazards from excess nitrogen.