The Carleton Interdisciplinary Science & Math Initiative (CISMI) website has not been significantly updated since 2011. We are preserving the webpages here because they still contain useful ideas and content. But be aware that it may have out of date information.
CISMI was replaced by the Carleton Integrated Math & Science initiative.
Initial Publication Date: January 15, 2009

CISMI-2: Preparing for Complexity, Mentoring for Access

Statement about HHMI grant

Goals

Program Elements

  • Student Research
    • Annual proposals for student summer research positions (39 over 4 years)
    • Student travel fund
    • All Science and Math Poster Session
  • Broadening Access
    • FOCUS
      • Faculty mentoring (4)
      • 2 credit seminar (3 terms )
      • visiting speakers for seminar
      • curricuum development grants
      • student recruitment
    • Science Fellows
      • summer research stipends (28, 4 cohorts of 4 students for up to 2 summers each)
      • additional summer research from other sources (8)
      • travel to conferences or greaduate/mediacl schools
      • faculty mentoring (4)
      • visiting speakers ($5000)
      • faculty travel
  • New Faculty Development
    • Integrative Spatial Modeling Initiative
      • GIS unit
      • Pathfinder unit
  • Current Faculty Development
    • Assessment Consortium Project
      • 5-6 faculty to participate in steering committee and meetings
    • Faculty Development Workshops
      • one workshop per year (2 1/2 days, for 20) tied to interdisciplinary science themes and pedagogies.
    • Computational Modeling and Visualization
      • Atmospheric data mining
      • servicing and parts for Beowoulf cluster
      • collaboration meetings in computational research
      • Midstates Consortium for Math and Science computational modeling meeting
      • Small faculty gatherings
  • Future Faculty Development
    • Postdoctoral Mentoring
    • LACAFI Diverse Faculty Recruiting
    • Consortium for Faculty Diversity Collaboration
  • Curriculum Equipment and Laboratory Development
  • Precollege and Other Outreach
    • Summer Science Institute