25 May 2012
Each year during Graduate Appreciation Week, the Graduate Studies Office hosts the annual Graduate Poster Session in the Top of the HOP. At the poster session, PhD students from Dartmouth’s Arts & Sciences Graduate Programs and the Thayer School of Engineering present their research to the event’s attendees. In addition, a panel of judges—comprised of [...]
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22 May 2012
To celebrate the many accomplishments of the masters and doctoral student graduating from Dartmouth this year, the Graduate Studies Office is hosting a reception for students and their guests on the lawn in front of Baker Berry on Saturday, June 9, from 5:00 PM until 6:30 PM. In the event of rain, the event will [...]
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21 May 2012
Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth’s David Bucci thinks there is much more going on. “In the last several years there have been data suggesting that neurobiological changes are happening—[there are] very brain-specific mechanisms at work here,” says Bucci, an [...]
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15 May 2012
Thalia Wheatley, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Science (PBS), discusses her approach to graduate mentoring at Dartmouth. Selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Faculty Mentor Award by Dartmouth’s Graduate Student Council (GSC), Professor Wheatley works to keep her graduate students happy, because she believes that happy, self-motivated researchers are more apt to produce [...]
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11 May 2012
Congratulations to Mathematics student Lola Thompson, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently at the Top of the Hop! Enjoy your winnings, Lola! (Read on for a summary of Thompson’s poster.) We are interested in studying polynomials that have a particularly simple form: f(x) = x^n – 1; where [...]
10 May 2012
On Tuesday, May 8th, members of both the outgoing and incoming Executive Board of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) met with Bill Helman, chair of the Presidential Search Committee, to discuss the upcoming search process for the 18th president of Dartmouth College. At the meeting, attendees explained that they felt a presidential candidate should be [...]
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09 May 2012
Congratulations to Nadia Penrod, a PEMM student who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently at the Top of the Hop! Enjoy your winnings, Nadia! (Read on for a summary of Penrod’s poster.) Biological function arises from the interactions between the component parts of a cell. We study the interactions [...]
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07 May 2012
About twenty graduate students from various disciplines gathered for an intimate lunch at the cozy Montgomery House last Wednesday with author Tobias Wolff who, until recently, was in residence at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow. Wolff is the well-known writer of the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army, as well as several novels [...]
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04 May 2012
Congratulations to Chris Audu, a fifth year student in the Mierke Lab (MD-PHD), who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently at the Top of the Hop! In addition to winning a poster award, Chris also won the award for Community Service. Enjoy your winnings, Chris! (Read on for a [...]
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02 May 2012
On Tuesday, May 1st at 5:00 PM, elections for the Executive Board for the Graduate Student Council (GSC) were held in Dartmouth Hall. Moderated by the lively Executive Board, each candidate delivered a two-minute speech to the election’s eligible voters, and answered three questions asked by the voters. Votes were cast by secret ballot and [...]
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