With countless great stories across the North Central College campus and the wider Cardinal community, we’ve created a new way to share them.
Welcome to 1861, the North Central College Podcast
Join us on this journey. Let’s see where it leads. A liberal arts education is about examining diverse perspectives, asking questions, and engaging in dialogue, so we’ll aim to have conversations that will get you thinking — inspire and challenge you. Maybe even smile ... or laugh.
Whether you are a current or prospective student, faculty or staff member, alum, friend or fan, we hope you enjoy a bird’s-eye view of what makes North Central College special.
While contributing to one of the most ambitious physics experiments in the world, Dr. Paul Bloom, professor of physics, made sure his students at North Central gained experience working right alongside him.
“You don’t really know how to do science until you try to do science,” he says.
In an expansive conversation, Bloom traces his journey to studying and teaching physics. He also discusses how the long-awaited results of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab national laboratory are a tremendous achievement of precision. And he lends insight into the value of studying science at a small liberal arts institution.
