Grad News Forum

The Graduate Forum would like to congratulate Greg Feiden on his recent publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Feiden collaborated on the publication, entitled “The Interior Structure Constants as an Age Diagnostic for Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Detached Eclipsing Binary Stars,” with Aaron Dotter of the Australian National Observatory. Dotter received his PhD from Dartmouth in 2007. The [...]

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On Saturday, May 18th, Archana Murali, Stela Celaj, Lisa Jackson, Justin Richardson, Alicia Ong, Yu Zhao, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Angelyca Jackson, and Marie Onakomaiya, members of the Graduate Relief Team (GRT), spent a morning planting a fruit and vegetable garden at the Upper Valley Haven. At the Haven Food Shelf, families in need can come in [...]

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In 1959, the British novelist and physicist Sir C.P. Snow gave a famous lecture ruing what he saw as a rift between society’s “two cultures”—the humanities and the sciences. Snow would surely be heartened, half a century later, by Dartmouth doctoral student Andy Sarroff. “I have one foot in the music department and one foot [...]

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Each spring, the Dean of Graduate Studies presents the Hannah T. Croasdale Award for academic excellence to graduating PhD students. The award recognizes exemplary scholars, dedicated to research and teaching. This year, the recipients are April Daigle Lewoczko and Laurel B. Symes. Professor Hannah T. Croasdale conducted research and taught biology for more than 40 [...]

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Physics and astronomy graduate student Philip Fernandes builds instruments that are shot into space aboard a rocket aimed at the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). The research or “sounding” rockets are launched from sites in Alaska and Norway into the ionosphere that extends between 46-621 miles above the earth during periods of heightened solar activity when [...]

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Marshals are selected by fellow students on the basis of good citizenship, enthusiasm, integrity, and positive impact on others. The Marshals carry batons engraved with their names as they lead their classmates to the Green during the Commencement procession. College photographer Eli Burakian ’00 shot portraits of this year’s undergraduate and advanced-degree Marshals. Chidi Anyadike [...]

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On Thursday, May 16th, the outgoing academic chair of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), Rich Lopez, hosted Nerd Nite, an event that again proved to be a great opportunity for graduate students to practice public speaking. Since its launch in 2012, Nerd Nite has been helpful in developing students’ skills talking to a general audience. [...]

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Nick Tito, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, was selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Graduate Student Teaching Award. Tito has been at Dartmouth since the fall of 2008. Born and raised in Maine, he earned his Bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of New England, located in his home [...]

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Katherine M. Kinnaird, a PhD candidate in the Mathematics Department, was selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Graduate Student Teaching Award. Kinnaird, who is originally from Bethesda, Maryland, earned a BA in mathematics from Wellesley College and an MA in mathematics from Dartmouth. Her research at Dartmouth is in applied mathematics. She [...]

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Dartmouth Ventures, formerly Greener Ventures, was a daylong conference on entrepreneurship with a startup showcase held at Tuck School of Business. The focus of the event was on “success and social value” in business. While the conference was held at Tuck, it was open to the public and offered a great opportunity to all Dartmouth [...]

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