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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 But be aware that it may have out of date information.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.

Undergraduate Research in Science & Math at Carleton

Initial Publication Date: January 22, 2007

Each summer, 40-50 Carleton undergraduates work with Carleton science and math faculty on authentic research projects. Faculty in these departments mentor students researchers: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Physics & Astronomy, Psychology, and Mathematics. Carleton's HHMI grant currently supports 14-18 students a summer, supplemented by funding from the college and external granting agencies that include the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Science at Carleton
Carleton offers a wide range of research opportunities to its students. Recent examples include (clockwise, from the top-left): 1-Professor Sarah Titus, a structural geologist with an interest in the distribution of strain across the central San Andreas fault, discusses her work with one of her students. 2-Physics professor Melissa Eblen-Zayas (center) and sophomores Marlea Iiams ('09) and Kim Rocha ('09) (right) explore how the viscosity of non-Newtonian liquids varies as a function of the stirring rate. 3-Charlie Weiss ('05) performs an air-sensitive filtration under the watchful eye of chemistry Professor Gretchen Hofmeister. 4-Chemistry professor Will Hollingsworth and Margaret Lo ('04) test the double output of their YAG-pumped dye laser.

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