It’s that time of year when we start to get the word out about our Adoptable Dogs through the Anthrozoology program at Carroll. Our student handlers work and live with each adoptable dog during the school year. Dogs are selected based on their temperament, motivation, and capacities to learn and paired based on the student’s educational interest, such as narcotics detection, various service tasks, and search and rescue methods.
It is important to note that our adoptable dog program does not produce working dogs or therapy/service dogs. At the end of the academic year, they become lovely companion dogs. Each student walks away having had a unique experience impacting their understanding and perspective of the human-animal bond.
Check out this year's adoptable dog profiles (all 13 of them) online at carroll.edu/dogs. Each dog also has their own Facebook page and social media presence so you can follow along with their progress. Begin the process now and the dogs will be available upon graduation in the spring. |
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Ever wonder just how much snow we have on the ground or how blue our sky really is? Well, for those of you not in the Helena-area but who are curious about our current weather, we have a few campus webcams available. In addition to our webcam which features campus looking west from the 4th floor of Simperman Hall, we also have a camera mounted on the 4th floor of St. Charles Hall which gives you a beautiful vantage point looking northwest towards the HAC and PE Center and the valley beyond. Check them out at carroll.edu/carroll-campus/webcam. |
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Carroll student Brett Rotz was recently selected as one of 13 students from college campuses across the state of Montana to receive the Montana Student Volunteer Award.
The students are awarded in partnership between the Governor’s Office of  Community Service and Montana Campus Compact affiliate campuses to recognize college students who serve their communities while pursuing a college degree or certificate.
Brett is a senior International Relations major from Rathdrum, ID. He serves as the president of Carroll’s Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and has volunteered with EWB since his freshman year, providing clean drinking water in Uganda, building safe structures in Guatemala, and other global service projects. Brett is also an active member of “Christ in the City” and Carroll’s Campus Ministry Headlights Immersion trips, serving low income people in Denver and Philadelphia over the past several years. Congratulations, Brett! |
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Congratulations to Carroll senior English major Rachel Wall, whose paper, "Crushing Stereotypes through Literature" won the award for best literary essay at this year's Northwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities.
 The Northwest Undergraduate Conference in the Humanities hosted its 4th annual conference this year at North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene. This conference is one of the few places undergraduate students can present their work in a public and professional academic setting. Topics presented at the conference include but are not limited to language, philosophy, literature, creative writing, history, ethnic studies, and religious studies, all while encompassing concerns in the humanities. In addition to Rachel’s presentation, Carroll senior philosophy major John Cooney presented his piece titled, "Ultimate Unity, Ultimate Mystery: Neoplatonic Mysteries in St. Augustine’s Theology of the Trinity." Also, theology professor Dr. John Ries attended the conference in support of our students, and moderated the panel on which both students presented. |
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Carroll senior psychology major, Rachel Bechtel from Moscow, ID, was notified recently that she is a recipient of the Mamie Phillips Clark Diversity Research Grant Award. Rachel will use this award to fund her honors thesis project examining factors that contribute to the disability wage gap.
“I am honored to receive a grant named after Mamie Phipps Clark who was a pioneer in social psychology race research," shared Rachel. "This grant will allow me to expand my research beyond undergraduate students to collect data from employers around Montana, which should increase the generalizability of my results. While the disability wage gap is less widely-discussed than other wage gaps, the existence of the disability wage gap has been consistently supported by research. It is important to understand how disability affects the hiring behavior of employers as research suggests that the gender, race, and disability wage gap may compound each other, necessitating a more intersectional approach to discrimination in the workplace. This research would not have been possible without the endless support of my advisor, Dr. McManus.” |
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