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Carleton has hosted special events for seniors during the week leading up to graduation for most of its history, even if the lineup was a bit different 100 years ago.…
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“Early in my songwriting career, I had a muse. He would appear and a song would appear. I thought it was him, but it wasn’t. It was me.”
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“We use female rats in our research because much of the existing data in biomedical research is derived from male subjects, leaving large gaps.” —Sarah Meerts, assistant professor of psychology
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“I didn’t know the pianist side of him. I didn’t know the chemistry star side. I remember learning that he was into filmmaking and seeing some of his early work. I was like, ‘Man, this is another thing you’re good at?’ ”
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“She had a wide smile that was almost always present. Her teeth were a faint gray and capped in gold; one even had a gold star in the middle that would shine as she spoke.”
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“I was so nervous I lost 10 pounds. But it was an amazing experience. My success working on Toy Story was a stamp of approval.”
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“The assumption that all Islamic people are susceptible to radical views is the same as the idea that Japanese Americans were all susceptible to [what was] going on in Japan in the 1940s.”
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Teacher’s Assistant: At two months old, Number Six already has a lot of responsibility. She helps psychology professor Sarah Meerts and her students with their research on motivated behaviors.
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“Plants and animals have gone extinct without humans’ help for millions of years, but we are now having a direct influence on the extinction rate and causing it to increase greatly.”
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You’re likely to find backhoes and construction workers on the Carleton campus every summer. But this year we’re particularly busy as we begin to implement the first phase of the Utilities Master Plan, approved by the trustees this past fall.
