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The East Laird Times is distributed electronically to the faculty by the Dean of the College Office. It is published bi-monthly during the academic terms, and on an occasional basis during breaks. You may submit articles for the ELT to Charlene Hamblin by using the ELT Submission Form. Staff who wish to be added to the ELT mailing list may contact Peggy Pfister at x4303.

September 2, 2009 (September 2, 2009)

Trish Ferrett

September 1, 2009

Professor of Chemistry, Co-Director of the Carleton Interdisciplinary Science Initiative (CISMI), and Senior Research Fellow at SERC, designed and participated in a faculty workshop at Carleton in June funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The workshop is the first of several in 2009-10 involving a small cohort of nine faculty from five colleges who are doing scholarly classroom inquiry into interdisciplinary science learning. The workshop was facilitated by Whitney Schlegel of Indiana University, Professor of Biology and Director of Human Biology.