Charlotte presented her research on Polymer Lenses at the American Physical Society March Meeting. The culmination of many years of vision and hard work on her part. Charlotte worked for me 11 of her 12 terms at Carleton. She started before she even had a physics class at Carleton. Apparently, she was terrified to contact Read More…
Category: Research
Inquisitive Investigator (Post-Tenure)
When I was a kid, I had a composition book that was full of questions that no one present had an answer for when I asked them. These were questions typically based on observations that I making, such as “Why don’t ants like to walk on baby powder?” If I didn’t have my book with Read More…
The Accidental Physicist (Pre-Tenure)
I wanted to be a paleontologist since the age 5, ever since I pointed to that word in the dictionary and asked my mom what it meant. From then on, I was obsessed with learning about dinosaurs. Living near Washington DC, I was able to attend lectures by leading paleontologists at the Smithsonian and in Read More…
