17 May 2013
Ron Bucca and Desmond Webster, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies students, cited in Dartmouth Now for work with Orion House. When Rob Lauzen ’15 volunteered to visit the Orion House, a residential treatment facility serving males ages 11 to 19, he had no idea how he could connect with the residents. But that changed [...]
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07 May 2013
Current Master of Public Health graduate students, Lisa Jackson and Dyane Tower, recently sat down to talk with Dr. Elliott Fisher, the newly appointed director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), on what got him started in medicine, TDI’s most important health care contributions to date, and what its future [...]
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07 May 2013
In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that over one-third of US adults are obese, and that the medical costs associated with obesity in 2008 were estimated at $14.7 billion, with rates and costs expected to increase. The molecular and epidemiological cause of this emerging epidemic in the US and world [...]
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01 May 2013
The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) held a celebratory lunch on Wednesday, April 10th to congratulate ten graduate students nominated as Outstanding Graduate Student Teachers. The nominees were selected by undergraduate students who felt that their TAs/instructors had gone above and beyond their responsibilities. The nominations and lunch were part of the [...]
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30 April 2013
Congratulations to graduate student John Gartner, in the Department of Earth Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Gartner’s poster.) Poster Title: Irene Landslides and Sedimentation in Vermont Rivers: Importance of Gradients in Transport Capacity How do rivers transport sediment [...]
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29 April 2013
The Advisor/Advisee Coffee, Tea and Muffin Time was an exciting way to start the last day of Graduate Appreciation Week. The event was held on Friday, April 12 from 9 am to 10:30 am in Occom Commons, inside of the Goldstein Dorm in the new McLaughlin Residential Cluster. By the end of a fun week [...]
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26 April 2013
Congratulations to graduate student Alex Schlegel, in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Schlegel’s poster.) Poster Title: A Neural Network Supporting Mental Operations on Visual Imagery Ask a bonobo what you get when [...]
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26 April 2013
Recently, Yuan Liu and Sadik Antwi-Boampong of the Department of Chemistry published a paper entitled “Detection of Secondhand Cigarette Smoke via Nicotine Using Conductive Polymer Films” in collaboration with their advisor, Joseph J. BelBruno, Mardi A. Crane-Godreau of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Susanne E. Tanski of the Department of Pediatrics and the [...]
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25 April 2013
Congratulations to graduate student Marianna Kleyman, in the Department of Biochemistry, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Kleyman’s poster.) Poster Title: STAG2 Regulates Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachments in Human Cells Chromosomes must be faithfully segregated during cell division to allow for normal [...]
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24 April 2013
Congratulations to graduate student Sadik Antwi-Boampong, in the Department of Chemistry, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Antwi-Boampong’s poster.) Poster Title: Detection of Formaldehyde Vapor Using Conductive Polymer Films Formaldehyde is a ubiquitous carcinogen that leaches from construction materials, household [...]
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