Professors are highly respected, leading scholars in their fields, but teaching comes first.
With individual attention from your professors and the myriad facilities and resources available to you, Carleton students learn how to learn. Every other year a team of talented students from Carleton travels to the Costa Rican rainforest for an intense two weeks of research. Many of their findings on everything from the behavior of coral snakes to hummingbird flower mites have been published in leading scientific journals like Evolution and Tropical Ecology. During fall term, in an intense period of study and preparation, the students write project proposals, following a process similar to applying for a National Science Foundation grant. Carleton alumni, who are in prestigious Ph.D. programs across the country, critique the student's proposals.