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Research

Dartmouth Researchers (from left) Carol Folt, Diane Gilbert-Diamond,
Margaret Karagas, and Kathryn Cottingham review study data.
(photo by Eli Burak '00)

FEATURE
Dartmouth Researchers Evaluate Rice as a Source of Fetal Arsenic Exposure

A team of Dartmouth researchers led by Margaret Karagas, director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth, are advancing our understanding of the sources of human exposure to arsenic. A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) focuses attention on the potential for consuming harmful levels of arsenic via rice.

News

About Research at Dartmouth

At Dartmouth, teaching and research are inextricably linked. Dartmouth offers undergraduate students a rigorous curriculum at the forefront of higher education and, as recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a “research university with very high research activity” ... Read more

Arts & Humanities

Barbara WIllNew Light on Gertrude Stein

Professor of English Barbara Will's book, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma, reveals the modernist author to be a "propagandist" for France's Vichy government.

Engineering

Thayer School of Engineering, How Healthy is Your Brain?

By combining measurements of neural activity and blood circulation in the brain, Thayer School Assistant Professor of Engineering Solomon Diamond '97, Thayer '98, and his research team have taken the first steps toward an easy, affordable, and comfortable way to evaluate brain health.

Medicine

Mathieu LupienOutsmarting Tumors

Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center have discovered a new "pioneer" factor, called PBX1, that may help unlock the keys to understanding how breast cancer tumors develop resistance to current therapies.

Sciences

AAAS logoAdvancing Science

Five Dartmouth faculty members have been selected as 2011 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. Professors Duane Compton, Russell Hughes, Lee Lynd, Jason Moore, and George O'Toole are among 539 new fellows recognized by AAAS this year for their distinguished efforts to advance science.

Business

Vijay GovindarajanRemodeling Innovation

Vijay Govindarajan, the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business, and fellow Tuck faculty member Chris Trimble, Tuck '96, are advocates for "reverse innovation," the process of designing products and services in the Third World markets they are meant to serve, and then using those innovations to cost-cutting effect in the First World.

International & Interdisciplinary Programs

Jennifer LindWhat's Next for North Korea?

Assistant Professor of Government Jennifer Lind's expertise on North Korea is in high demand following the death of Kim Jong-il.

Social Sciences

Borneo orangutansEvolution in a Harsh Environment

Nathaniel Dominy, associate professor of anthropology, has been studying the dietary habits of orangutans in Borneo, whose strategies for coping with food-limited environments "may give us a glimpse into what early human ancestors were facing."

Undergraduate Research

The New York Times logoMeasuring the Impact of Mammograms

The New York Times reported on research published by Professor of Medicine H. Gilbert Welch and Brittney A. Frankel '12, a government major. Their work showed only 3 to 13 percent of women who discovered their breast cancer through a mammogram were actually helped by the test.

Research