Grad News Forum

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 12, 2013, elected Dartmouth’s Interim President Carol L. Folt to be its next chancellor. Folt will assume her new role on July 1, succeeding Holden Thorp, who is leaving to become provost of Washington University in St. Louis. Folt will be the first woman to lead [...]

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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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Congratulations to Ron Bucca, 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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Two Dartmouth students have their sights set on very different kinds of science, courtesy of the National Science Foundation (NSF). As recipients of NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, Eshin Jolly will pursue graduate studies in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth while Aryeh Drager ’12 will head to Colorado State University to study atmospheric science. For the full [...]

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This year’s recipients of the Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award are Professor Kathryn Cottingham and Professor Robert Hawley. Each year the Graduate Student Council (GSC) gives out two Graduate Faculty Mentoring Awards to recognize the exceptional mentoring activities of faculty advisors at Dartmouth. Award recipients are honored for their commitment to fostering the academic and professional [...]

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Each year, graduate students in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM) invite a leader in their field to Dartmouth to give a seminar talk. This year, students chose between several candidates, finally selecting Dr. Robert Weinberg. Dr. Weinberg is a founding member and current faculty of [...]

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About forty students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program gathered on Wednesday, March 27, to hear the Works in Progress presentations from four students working on their theses. The Works in Progress presentations occur once or twice each academic year. The program was proposed five years ago [...]

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Congratulations to Julia Bradley-Cook for being awarded an honorable mention for the 2013 American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award! Each year, AIBS recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who have demonstrated an interest in and ability to contribute to science and public policy. This year competition for the award [...]

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Graduate Student Appreciation Week, commencing April 6, is an annual celebration of the contributions that graduate students bring to Dartmouth. The week combines a wide range of scholarly and social activities. Graduate students work hard.  Each one knows late nights and early mornings. However, all being said, you will have to look hard to find [...]

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The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth has named Elliott S. Fisher as the director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. An internationally recognized leader in health services research and health policy, Fisher is currently the director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute, as well as the James W. Squire Professor of [...]

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