Dartmouth Sights & Sounds
Research & Science

Audio: Affirmative action programs in the construction industry

David "Danny" Blanchflower talks about his study and the state of affirmative action in construction today.

Audio: The Big Green Bus

Elliott May '06 spent his senior year working with a group of environmentally conscious classmates to convert a used school bus to run on waste vegetable oil.

Audio: The case for atheism

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses the reasoning behind his beliefs and talks about the social and political implications of heterodoxy in matters of faith.

Audio: The economics, politics, science, and morality of climate change

It's going to take an interdisciplinary approach to tackle global warming and climate change, according to Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, a professor of philosophy, and Richard Howarth, a professor of environmental studies.

Video: Cool robots

Since 2003, student and researchers from the Thayer School of Engineering have been designing a lightweight mobile robot that enables deployment of instrument networks in Antarctica.

Video: Dartmouth researchers build world's smallest mobile robot

In a world where "supersize" has entered the lexicon, there are some things getting smaller. Dartmouth researchers have contributed to the miniaturizing trend by creating the world's smallest untethered, controllable robot.

Video: Discovery Supercomputer Cluster

Discovery is a collection of 101 computers, or nodes, with a total of 342 CPUs, 11 Terabytes of disk space, and 600 Gigabytes of memory.

Audio: Energy, the environment, and you

Andrew Friedland talks about the different choices people can make, if they want, to ease their environmental impact.

Video: The ethics of stem cells

Stem cell research is an issue at the crossroads of medicine, politics, economics, and bioethics. Ronald M. Green discusses the issue of genetic and biomedical ethics.

Audio: Open-source organizing

Quintus Jett is working to design a new, more flexible way of organizing groups of people, a method inspired by the success of open-source programming.

Video: Racing into the future

Students at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering have been working to design and build a formula race car with a hybrid engine

Video: Studying the similarites between active and passive learning

Dartmouth researchers have determined that people can acquire motor skills through the "seeing" as well as the "doing" form of learning.

Audio: The workings of an 18-year-old brain

Abigail Baird talks about her research in general, and about a recent study that looked at the brains of college students throughout their freshman year at Dartmouth.