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Alison Sommer '05: Zolpidem gives you ZZZs (plus the occasional purple octopus)
Zolpidem is better known by its non-generic name: Ambien. And it is magic. Sweet, sweet, dream inducing magic. Now before I start sounding like a druggie (which I totally am not, really. I don't even...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton Staff and Students Lead Writing Workshop
Kathy Evertz, director of the Academic Support Center, and Renata Fitzpatrick, assistant director of the Writing Center and coordinator of Second Language Writing, co-led a workshop with Andrew Chael...
View ArticleCarleton News: Sage Awarded Grant to Study Education through Tablet Technology
Kara Sage, visiting assistant professor of psychology, received an APA Division 7 Early Career Research Grant to launch a new research project entitled "iLearn: Can utilizing tablet technology reduce...
View ArticleCarleton News: Weiner Delivers Paper on Oresteia Production at Carleton
Ruth Weiner, Class of 1944 Professor of Theater and the Liberal Arts Professor of English, delivered a paper entitled, "The Oresteia in Production," at the Comparative Drama Conference on April 6 in...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton Librarians Present at the Association of College and...
Danya Leebaw, reference and instruction librarian for social sciences, Kristin Partlo, reference and instruction librarian for social sciences and data, and Heather Tompkins, reference and instruction...
View ArticleCarleton News: Baylor Discusses her Journey to a Career in Applied Physics
Martha-Elizabeth Baylor, assistant professor of physics, gave an invited talk entitled "A Random Walk into Optical Signal Processing and Integrated Optofluidics" on April 14 as part of the American...
View ArticleCarleton News: Flory Leads Panel Discussion on Teaching Rock Music
Andrew Flory, assistant professor of music, organized and chaired a session called "Pop The Syllabus: Teaching Rock" as part of the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, which was hosted by the Rock...
View ArticleCarleton News: Keïta's Films Invited for Screening in Japan
Chérif Keïta, professor of French, has two documentary films that have been invited for screening at an African Art Exhibit to be held in May in Yokohama City, Japan. The two films, “Cemetery Stories:...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Golf: Knights Earn First Victory of the Season
The Knights picked up their first victory of the spring season in their first competitive round outside in over a month. Carleton's team score of 322 was enough to defeat both Bethany Lutheran College...
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Kevin Draper '10: Gregg, Jason, Chris, Mark and God
Editor’s Note: As the two editors of The Diss are Jewish, the following guest piece by Gregg Gethard isn’t something we could, or would, write. Considering that 24% of Americans identify as Catholic,...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Golf: Rohrbach Fairs Well at St. John's Spring...
Coming off a victory on Friday and a 13th place finish at the St. John’s Winter Invitational on Saturday, freshman Ned Rohrbach turned in a solid performance as the lone Knight participating in the St....
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Kevin Draper '10: Series of the Week: Indiana Pacers (3) versus Atlanta Hawks...
In the modern NBA, where matchups are key, and momentum means just about everything, it is interesting that all NBA playoff series are not created — or received — equally. Indeed, professional...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #155: Swingerzzz
As the tulips grace the gardens of the mid-atlantic, I begin to dream of summer evenings, sitting on the porch swing. Soft breezes. Crickets. Babies…in bed.No, wait. Babies IN BED. And I said PORCH...
View ArticleNaomi Dietzel Hershiser '99: D-Day!
I have been waiting for this day for months! As I ran through the newly flooded back loop of Rollins Savannah... clad, I might add, in shorts and a tank top... a dragonfly swooped past my head. YEA!...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: AP review ideas
If you haven't seen Ken Halla's suggestions at Goggle+, they are worth looking over, WITH ONE MAJOR CAVEAT.In his test taking strategies, he suggests that students offer more examples than they are...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Symbiotic Design: Life-Saving Meds Hide in Spare Space
[ By WebUrbanist in Design& Products & Packaging. ] It is a strange fact that Coca Cola is so widely distributed it is easier to obtain in some places than clean water. That powerful...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Baseball: Dsida, Rownd Propel Knights to Sweep of Bethel
Jeff Dsida set the tone today for the Carleton College baseball squad, homering to straightaway centerfield on the first pitch of the Knights’ first turn at bat. Carleton went on to sweep the Bethel...
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Elizabeth Tamny '88: boys club
I made the graphic below for this Tumblr about institutions that are all men because I have been thinking about it/noticing it for months: every single host of a show on the Travel Channel is a white...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Rewards for loyal service
Mr. Medvedev looks like he's on the way out in Moscow. Putin criticism leaves Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev bruisedEver since he meekly stood aside after just one term and allowed Vladimir Putin to return...
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