Math & Science News

If biology is now riding the bullet train of technological progress, is natural history still useful? And even if it is useful, isn’t it on the rocks for good? Yes, it’s still useful, and no, it isn’t dead!

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

A team including assistant professor of physics and astronomy Ryan Terrien ’09 built a tool called the Habitable Zone Planet Finder (HPF) to better detect planets orbiting M dwarf stars.

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.

Pool noodles, pom-poms, and plastic toy animals — these might not be the supplies you would imagine for a college science class. In Professor Rou-Jia Sung’s Structural Biology Seminar, however, it’s all par for the course.

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.

Rou-Jia Sung and Andrew Wilson have developed a new augmented reality app.

Julianne Pyron ’19, a double major (physics and archaeology) from Houston, tells us about her senior capstone experience, or ‘Comps,’ in support of her physics degree.

Sam Stevenson ’19, a physics/mathematics major from Salt Lake City, spent the summer of 2018 working closely with associate professor of physics Marty Baylor.