Grad News Forum

Last weekend, over twenty high school students from around the area convened in the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center for the first Upper Valley Brain Bee. Hosted by the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth  and the Society for Neuroscience New Hampshire Chapter, this event would not have been possible without the hard work of Marie [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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On Wednesday April 10th, the Graduate Studies Office hosted the annual Graduate Poster Session. This event gives graduate students the opportunity to present their research to a wide audience. It also serves as the setting for the presentations of the Graduate Community Award, Faculty Mentoring Award, and four Poster Awards. In a crammed Alumni Hall, [...]

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Like the rest of the world, Matthew Sturdevant, MALS ’08, was shocked and horrified when he first learned of the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., on December 14, 2012. But then he had to go to work and cover the unfolding tragedy for the Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s largest daily newspaper. A Courant staff writer since 2009 and a [...]

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Congratulations to Marie Onakomaiya, one of the winners of the 2013 Graduate Community Award! Graduate Community Award winners were announced by Dean F. Jon Kull on May 10 at the Graduate Poster Session as part of Graduate Appreciation Week (April 6-12). The Graduate Studies Office awards the Graduate Community Award each year to recognize graduate students’ [...]

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