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Newsletter: Carleton Sentinel

"Keeping you in the loop since 2005"

  • REU Opportunity

    January 18, 2013

    Ohio Wesleyan University is now taking applications for their REU program in scientific computation, with projects in astronomy, computer science, mathematics, and physics.  Application deadline is March 4, 2013.  Click here for more information.

  • REU Opportunity

    January 16, 2013

    The Socially Computing Research Experience for Undergraduates at UNC Charlotte is currently taking applications for summer 2013.  Application deadline is February 24, 2013.  For more information click here.

  • Kolenkow-Reitz Fund for Undergraduate Research

    January 14, 2013

    Are you interested in doing summer break scientific research at another institution?  Up to ten students in natural sciences and mathematics will be support for the summer of 2013 with each receiving funds not to exceed $4200.  Funding is available to Carleton international students.  Applications are due Feb. 5.  Click above for more information.

  • Job Opportunity for Carleton Student

    January 11, 2013

    Fred Rogers (Vice President and Treasurer of Carleton) has a project for which he's seeking assistance from a student for a database-driven project on higher ed college endowments.  This is an exercise to organize and then analyze the data that the National College and University Business Officers Association (NACUBO) has collected over the past 40 years on college endowments, their asset allocations, their spending, their investment returns and their market values.  The project involves some data cleaning (and possibly some algorithmic approaches for partially automating the data cleaning process) and some analysis.  If you're interested, please contact David Liben-Nowell.

  • Job Opportunity at St. Olaf College

    January 11, 2013

    St. Olaf is looking to hire a junior level Linux Systems Administrator/Programmer.  If you are looking to work in higher education and have the experience and knowledge they are looking for to visit their website for more information.  They will consider hiring the right individual on a part-time basis (10-20 hours weekly) as they complete their last term. 

  • Job Opportunity with NOAA National Weather Service

    January 11, 2013

    The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Visiting Scientist Programs office in Chanhassen, Minnesota is recruiting a Systems Administrator II and a Software Engineer/Programmer I.  Deadline to apply is January 25, 2013.  Click above for more information.

  • Job Opportunity

    January 11, 2013

    Dan Ferro from Northfield is looking to hire a Carleton student for a small project that would require knowledge of mySQL.  The project would take appropriate one to two hours.  If you are interested to contact Dan Ferro directly.

  • Internship Opportunity

    January 4, 2013

    Austin Dahl '88 shared with us that Tableau Software is looking to hire a Software Engineer Intern for the summer.  The company is doing some interesting work combining SQL databases with visualization software.  Click here for more information.

  • Summer Science Fellowship Opportunity - deadline January 11, 2013

    January 4, 2013

    Are you a first or second year Carleton student interested in majoring in the sciences or math? Consider applying for a Summer Science Fellowship. This program aims to broaden participation of historically underrepresented groups (including gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and disabilities) in the sciences and math by providing research opportunities for two summers as well as mentoring activities. The application deadline is January 11th. More information and the application can be found at http://serc.carleton.edu/cismi/students/summer_fellows.html

  • REU Opportunity

    December 19, 2012

    LearnLab at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh has a research opportunity available to undergraduate students.  This research program encourages applications from students who would like to conduct research in the fields of psychology, education, computer science, human-computer interfaces and language technologies.  Application deadline is February 15, 2013.  Click here for more information.

  • University of Michigan School of Information

    December 10, 2012

    The University of Michigan School of Information's PhD program would like to encourage Carleton students to apply.  A number of recent alums have enrolled.  For more information click here.

  • REU in Computer Science and Ecology

    December 10, 2012

    Harvest Forest in rural Massachusetts has an REU opportunity in Computer Science and Ecology.  Application deadline is February 1, 2013.  Click here for more information.