Grad News Forum

On Friday, May, 17th graduate student leaders met with two graduate alumni over lunch to discuss leadership and the role of the graduate community at Dartmouth. Student leaders, including Graduate Student Council (GSC) executive board members, met with Melody Brown Burkins and Allan Weatherwax, the current graduate alumni reps to the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Burkins, [...]

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Not every college student wants to spend 10 weeks in rural Costa Rica, working long hours in the field while battling muggy weather and vicious mosquitoes. But count Ellen Irwin ’14 as one who does.   “It was a lot of fun,” she says. “It was an amazing experience.” Irwin spent a term last year [...]

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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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Students across Graduate Studies have a lot of things to look forward to this spring. The newest edition of the MALS Journal is one of them. During the last week of classes, Katie Moritz and Jamaal Downey, MALS students and the editors of the Journal, will release their second, and final, journal of the academic [...]

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In the coming year, Patricia Wadsworth, professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will join Melody Brown Burkins on the Graduate Alumni Council. She will be taking over from Allan Weatherwax, who is completing his time as a member of the council this spring. Professor Weatherwax earned his PhD in physics in 1995 [...]

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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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This year’s Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams, graduated this past week from Duke University. Her dissertation focuses on the lives and entrepreneurial activities of free women of African descent in Veracruz, Mexico in the seventeenth century. She is finishing up her fellowship at Dartmouth and will be moving in the fall to a post-doctoral [...]

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Everywhere researchers go, be it a conference, a job interview, or simply meeting a colleague in the hallway, people ask the obvious question: “So tell me about your work?” It goes without saying that the ability of researchers to describe their research in lay language efficiently is one of the most important skills to be [...]

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“I really don’t want to talk, I just want to listen” The words of F. Jon Kull, Dean of Dartmouth Graduate Studies at a debriefing session on the issues of sexual assault and prejudice at the College. On Monday 6th May, the Graduate Student Council and the Grad Studies Office held a program wide-debriefing session [...]

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On Tuesday May 8th, the GSC held it’s annual elections for the Executive Board. Eight positions were open for election. They were: President, Vice President, Finance Chair, Student Life Chair, Academic Chair, Secretary and two Social Chairs. The Executive Board is responsible for the leadership of the GSC. Each member has their own portfolio and collectively [...]

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