• Prospective Student Liasons Needed

    The department’s prospective student liaisons (PSLs) take an active role in putting interested high school and potential transfer students in contact with current majors. Their role is to set up informal lunches with visiting students, give tours around the department, and speak on the phone or by email. The PSLs do not report back to professors or admissions, but merely offer insight and a student perspective on the department. Students interested in becoming Liaisons should contact Joel or Mary.

  • Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program

    The Department of Physics & Astronomy is proud to offer the Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program, which supports female science majors who are pursuing summer research projects in physics, astronomy, and computer science as well as cross-disciplinary research projects in computational physics, geophysics, biophysics, computational chemistry, and physical chemistry. The awards will be given annually to eight women in Physics & Astronomy and Computer Science or related fields. Each recipient will be paid a stipend of $4200 for 10 weeks of summer research, with additional funds allotted for research expenses and travel to meetings to present results.  The CBL Research Scholars will take part in cohort activities such as summer lunch meetings, presentation of a poster on their research at Carleton’s annual poster session and participation in related CBL activities throughout the academic year following their summer research.

    To be eligible, the applicant must be:

    • Female interested in physics, astronomy, computer science or related fields.
    • U.S. Citizen
    • Preference is for 1st or 2nd year students

    The application deadline is February 1, 2011.  The application and more information can be found here.

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    Physics Table

    January 4 (Tuesday) noon-1:00pm, LDC ’51 Dining Room
    Join physics students, faculty and staff for lunch at the LDC.  Meet on third Olin for the short walk over or meet us there.

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    Faculty Research Presentation

    January 5 (Wednesday) 3:10-4:20pm, Olin 04

    John Weiss, Nelson Christensen and Arjendu Pattanayak will briefly describe their research interests and answer student questions.  Refreshments will be served and everyone is invited.

  • Goodsell Observatory

    Goodsell Observatory Open House

    January 7 (Friday) 7:00-9:00pm, Goodsell Observatory
    If skies are clear, view stars, nebulas and planets.  Dress warmly.  Canceled if cloudy.  Open house schedules can also be viewed at http://go.carleton.edu/83

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