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Expanding Dartmouth's Global Health Initiative

Dartmouth has a legacy of training individuals committed to working on global health from a variety of vantage points, from policy and clinical work to laboratory and research efforts. Now, Dartmouth Medical School and the Dickey Center for International Understanding are expanding the Global Health Initiative at Dartmouth. "The strength of the Global Health Initiative is its multidisciplinary approach," says Kenneth Yalowitz, director of the Dickey Center. "By expanding our programs, we ensure that we sustain [that legacy]."

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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

TiltfactorSerious fun

Play comes in many forms: competitive, subversive, embodied, or exploratory. Dartmouth's Tiltfactor Laboratory explores ways to use diverse design approaches to appeal to a wide range of players and learners. Tiltfactor staff are interested in playculture–how play permeates everyday actions and routines–and seeks ways to infuse playfulness into common interactions.

Engineering

Materials characterizationEngineering in medicine

Anyone who goes to the doctor benefits from the work of engineers. Every medical device represents a collaboration between doctors eager for better ways to treat patients and engineers eager to push technological boundaries. Dartmouth engineers have focused on medical technologies since the 1960s, with the start of a biomedical engineering program at Thayer School of Engineering.

Medicine

Courtney KozulNew role for an old poison

Millions of people worldwide are exposed to levels of arsenic above the recommended standard. Now, a study authored by Dartmouth Medical School graduate student Courtney Kozul has found that low levels of arsenic may also compromise the body's immune response to Influenza A, including the strain commonly known as "swine flu."

Sciences

Senate reportThe final frontier

In a recent study, Professor of Physics and Astronomy Miles Blencowe and his colleagues proposed a new way of creating a reproduction black hole in the laboratory. This artificial black hole would be on a much, much tinier scale than its celestial counterparts. In this podcast, Blencowe talks about his research and the importance of understanding the quantum world.

Business

Bob HansenData hemorrhages

Popular peer-to-peer (P2P) Internet-based file sharing networks that allow users to share music and videos may also inadvertently expose America's health care patients, providers, and payers to identity theft. That is the conclusion of M. Eric Johnson, director of the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business, who presented his report, "Data Hemorrhages in the Health Care Sector," at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference earlier this year.

International & Interdisciplinary Programs

Foreign studyTime capsule

"I don't know of any other environment quite like this on Earth," says Jill Mikucki, visiting fellow at Dartmouth's Institute of Arctic Studies and a research associate in Earth Sciences. She's talking about a reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier that supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years. A research team from Dartmouth and Harvard found the microbes have eked out a living by breathing iron leached from bedrock. Mikucki was lead author of a report on the research in the journal Science.

Social Sciences

NH pollThe arch-dove

Dartmouth economist David "Danny" Blanchflower knows that the immediate outlook for the UK labor market is grim. Blanchflower recently wrapped up a term as a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), and he's been on the front lines of guiding economic policy in the UK. News outlets have taken notice of Blanchflower's service on the MPC: the UK's The Guardian, in an editorial, said, "[The] combination of intellectual pedigree and plain common sense will be much missed when he steps down from the MPC ..."

Undergraduate Research

Liana Chase1,000 one-on-ones

Independent study and research is one of the distinct hallmarks of a Dartmouth education, with 60 percent of the undergraduate student body taking advantage of the opportunity. Dartmouth faculty direct more than 1,000 one-on-one independent studies with undergraduate students every year.

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