Mindy Price, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Macalester College, will unpack scholarly visions of the Arctic as a new agricultural frontier. 

The Annual Veblen-Clark Lecture will feature Dr. De Nardi, the Thomas Sargent Professor at the University of Minnesota and a Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Midstates Consortium for Math and Science: App Deadline - Monday, October 5
The Midstates Consortium is a collaborative network of 12 Midwestern colleges and universities dedicated to advancing STEM education. The consortium provides students with hands-on research presentation experience and faculty with cross-campus collaboration opportunities. Carleton will select five students and two faculty to attend these symposia. All expenses will be paid. 

Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science Undergraduate Research Symposium

Learn about the history of the Upper Arboretum on this walking tour led by student naturalists and Arboretum staff.

CarlsChat with Yer Yang '11, Registered Nurse (cardiac unit), Allina Health
Tuesday, September 29, 11am-1pm, Virtual
Yer Yang '11, will be sharing her career path in 1:1 sessions with students.

 

Mary Precious Feutsop Ngouane ’27 has been selected by the American Physical Society (APS) for its 2026–27 student ambassador cohort. “These outstanding undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will lead outreach efforts on their campuses and share APS resources with their communities.”

 

Claudio Gómez-Gonzáles, assistant professor of mathematics, has been honored by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) with the Henry L. Alder Award, which celebrates exceptional educators who are making a lasting impact on mathematics education.

 

Claire Kelling, assistant professor of statistics, was awarded the Societal Impact Award by the Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science. The award is given annually to a statistician or data scientist who has actively worked to advance social justice or diversity, equity, and inclusion through their research, teaching, or service. With this award, she will be a plenary speaker at the American Statistical Association’s Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference.

Maja Urban ’27 presented a talk at the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting in August in Chicago titled “Identification of Sources of Micro and Nano-Plastic Particles in Ambient Aerosol Detected Using Single-Particle Mass Spectrometry” with co-authors Maryjane Iteghete ’28, Frankie Saraniti ’25, and Deborah Gross, Charles “Jim” and Marjorie Kade Professor of the Sciences. The work has been supported by the College and the Chemistry Department.

Julia Strand, professor of psychology, contributed to a Career Feature in Nature titled, “Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings: Scientists share help and advice on how they got their research discussions flowing.”

Emma McGorray, assistant professor of psychology, received the SAGE Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, in recognition of early-career contributions to the field of social psychology.

Eric Egge ’94, professor of mathematics, has been awarded an AMS-Simons Research Enhancement Grant from the American Mathematical Society to conduct research on problems involving pattern-avoiding permutations. With support from the grant, Egge will also further explore and engage with the field of combinational game theory.

Jean Salac, Austin Mason, Lin Su Winton, and Rebecca Terry were awarded a million-dollar National Science Foundation FutureCore grant, joint with the Universities of Maryland and Michigan, for their project to study responsible, effective, and pedagogically sound GenAI supports for computational tasks across disciplines.

Anya E. Vostinar ’12, assistant professor of computer science; Elias Hillman-Emelianoff ’27; Ahmad Khalili ’27; and colleagues published and presented the work, “Endosymbiotic mutualism can constrain host diversity and evolved complexity,” at the ALIFE 2026 conference, where it was selected as Best Paper. At the same conference, “Saved by the Symbiont: Environmental Stress Intensity and Endosymbiont-Mediated Stress Response Determine Evolved Host Complexity ” by Camila Mendoza ’28, Daya Tucker ’27, and colleagues, led by Vostinar, was also published and presented, and was selected as a Student Paper of Distinction. 

Arjendu Pattanayak, professor of physics, spoke on “Permutation entropy of indexed ensembles (PI) a measure of complexity and entropy dynamics for out-of-equilibrium systems with applications in physics and biology” at an invited mini-symposium during Dynamics Days Europe 2026 in Lisbon, on work done in collaboration with Malachy Guzman ’25, Ben Ansbacher ’26, Saayan Prasad ’28, Andrew Zeng ’29, and external collaborators.

Sophie Boileau ’24; Andrew Hong ’24; David Liben-Nowell, professor of computer science; Alistair Pattison ’24; Anna N. Rafferty, professor of computer science; and Charlie Roslansky ’24 published a paper, “Maximizing the Margin between Desirable and Undesirable Elements in a Covering Problem,” in The 32nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2026). This publication emerged from a summer student research project in 2023, continuing through the 2023–24 academic year and after graduation.