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Myint Appears on LinkAsia TV
17 October 2012Tun Myint, assistant professor of political science at Carleton, appeared on Dec. 2 on LinkAsia TV regarding Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent visit to Burma/Myanmar. Myint’s appearance comes a little under four minutes into the segment. He spoke about what reforms might be possible within the country and which the current regime are likely to oppose.
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Kohen Published in Journal on Undergraduate Research
17 October 2012Chemistry professor Daniela Kohen has coauthored an article published in the Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, a journal about student-faculty collaborative research. The article, “Developing a Regional Computational Chemistry Consortium Through Undergraduate Research Conferences,” was coauthored by Macalester College professor Keith Kuwata and Hope College professors Will Polik and Brent Krueger.
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Weisberg Featured on Walker Art Center Website
17 October 2012Joel Weisberg, the Herman and Gertrude Mosier Stark Professor of Physics and Astronomy and the Natural Sciences at Carleton College, was recently featured in an article on the website of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The article was an interview with “experimental geographer” Trevor Paglen, with whom Weisberg wrote a paper for the August 2012 issue of Astronomical Journal. Paglen, whose work often focuses on covert or “black” government operations in space, was introduced by Weisberg at an appearance at Carleton last year.
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2012 Graduate Ramirez Wins Student Paper Award from Minnesota Economic Association
17 October 2012Ruben Ramirez ’12 (St. Louis Park, Minn.), who graduated from Carleton last June with a B.A. in economics, has received the second-place award in this year’s Undergraduate Student Paper Contest from the Minnesota Economic Association. The MEA, which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, is a professional connection between business and economic professionals and college economics professors. Ramirez won the award for his paper “Historical Economic Integration in Europe: Application of a Threshold Auto-Regressive Model With Price Data from 1295-1914,” which looks at the gradual process of economic integration among European cities.
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Claire Yanjing Du ’08 Quoted in Time Magazine About China’s Liberal Arts Schools
1 October 2012Claire Yanjing Du ’08 is quoted in an Oct. 1 piece in Time Magazine about the rise in popularity of the liberal-arts experience in China. The article covered the fact that liberal arts institutions are starting in that country and how top tier schools like Carleton are recruiting the country heavily, thanks in part to Du organizing a tour of the country for schools like Carleton, Williams and Amherst, exposing students there to the type of experience she had as a Carl. “Chinese students are dying for a nonconventional, more liberal approach to education,” she says.The article is available to paid subscribers only.
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USA Today Features Neiworth’s, Students’ Research on Language Research
29 September 2012Julie Neiworth, professor of psychology and director of Carleton’s neuroscience program, was featured on the USA Today website on Sept. 29 for her work in replicating the studies of noted former Harvard researcher Marc Hauser. The piece, titled “Scientists revisit a monkey study gone wrong,” talks about how Neiworth was conflicted about using Hauser’s research in her classroom after his findings came under fire and he eventually was charged with research misconduct. “I stopped teaching his articles, but there was a more fundamental problem,” she said in the piece. “I needed to know if I believed (Hauser’s) results, or not. And my lab was about the only one in the country that could find out if they were right or wrong.” Neiworth secured National Institute of Health funding in support of the project. Her overall research has included nearly 100 undergraduate collaborators and resulted in more than a dozen publications and presentations.
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Dalgaard: Your Checkbook Is Dead
24 September 2012Bruce Dalgaard, the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, was interviewed by bankrate.com about the bleak future of the old-fashioned checkbook in the United States. “Recent visits to Germany and Norway revealed how most Europeans have a point-of-sale card. Some are the equivalent of our debit cards, and some are loaded with cash,” he said. “Merchants like these because the transaction fee is lower. I get funny looks when I use a credit card.” The piece was also picked up by Yahoo! Finance.
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Nystrom Touts “Engagement Wanted,” Networking Skills to Chicago Tribune
21 September 2012Brent Nystrom ’92, interim director of the career center, is quoted in the Sept. 21 edition of the Chicago Tribune on a story on how college students need to learn better networking skills to find employment. He tells the Tribune about Carleton’s “Engagement Wanted” program and how it helps Carls, since college students in general aren’t the best at networking.”It just multiplied the number of people who would see a little bit about (the students) quickly,” Nystrom said. In addition, “it’s on the alum to make the very first contact,” which takes the pressure off students to start the conversation.
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Carleton’s Neiworth Awarded NIH Grant for Work in Comparative Cognition
20 September 2012Julie Neiworth, Carleton College professor of psychology and director of neuroscience, has been awarded an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant of $344,204 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research “Revisiting Challenged Findings to Determine Social and Cognitive Abilities in Tamarins.” Neiworth will test tamarins, a new world monkey species, on several aspects of cognition contested in psychology due to the retraction or correction of work from former Harvard psychologist Marc Hauser. The topics include recognition of human speech, theory of mind, and social learning.
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Schier Tells Christian Science Monitor California May Be Political Model
12 September 2012Steven Schier, the Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science, was quoted in the Sept. 12 edition of the Christian Science Monitor about how California’s ultra-competitive political landscape may be a national trend. “Competitiveness gives voters a real choice in elections,” says Schier. “It is an essential element for popular control of government.”
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