Grad News Forum

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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The College is advising people who travel to and from the campus to be aware of possible travel interruptions in the wake of the lockdown, which covers the entire city of Boston and a number of surrounding communities. For the full article go to the Dartmouth Now.

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For Princeton University professor and former US State Department official, Anne-Marie Slaughter, it has been a busy year. Her manifesto chronicling the struggle of today’s professional women attempting to achieve work-life balance, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” (July 2012), quickly became the Atlantic’s most viewed article of all time (The Colbert Report interview, [...]

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On Saturday, April 6th, over 150 children and adults turned out for the very first Science Day at Dartmouth. F. Jon Kull, dean of Graduate Studies, dubbed Science Day, organized by Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE), a “great success.” Anna Prescott and Aarathi Prasaad, PhD candidates in Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) and [...]

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The Sustainability Action Team (SAT) is a newly formed arm of the Dartmouth Graduate Student Council (GSC) concerned with providing a voice for sustainability efforts and awareness in the Dartmouth graduate community. During Earth Week 2013, on April 23, the group will be hosting their first event, an e-waste collection site, in collaboration with the [...]

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The Graduate-Undergraduate (G-U) Mentoring Program was officially launched on April 4th, 2013 with a kick-off event co-sponsored by Dartmouth Graduate Studies and Career Services. The launch event was hosted at the Career Services office in downtown Hanover and began with an introduction of the Mentoring Program by graduate students, Max Mehlman and Marie Onakomaiya. A [...]

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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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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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