Grad News Forum

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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The Graduate Forum would like to congratulate Sarah Henderson, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, on her new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, New York. Henderson plans to graduate this summer and begin working in New York City [...]

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The Graduate Forum would like to congratulate Morgan Thompson on her recent publication in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Volume 20, Issue 1. Thompson, who defended her dissertation this fall in biochemistry, collaborated on the article with Ernest Heimsath, Timothy Gauvin, and Professor Henry Higgs, all of the Department of Biochemistry, [...]

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The final seminar in the Graduate Studies series, “Becoming a Faculty Member,” was held on February 15. Two graduate alumni came back to Dartmouth to give their advice on how to successfully obtain an academic job: Allan Weatherwax, professor of physics and the dean of science at Siena College, and Rose Finn, associate professor and [...]

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  For the past several years, you have worn jeans and a t-shirt to the lab. With the exception of a graduate student social, you have not had an occasion to dress up. Now, however, you have an interview for a job in industry. What do you wear? What you wear to the interview tells [...]

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Graduate Studies wants to congratulate Ernest Heimsath on his new position at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Ernest recently defended his dissertation in biochemistry in December, under the guidance of Professor Henry Higgs. He will be moving down to Bethesda, Maryland, in March to work as a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Bechara Kachar in [...]

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The Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) is proud to be sponsoring the first PhD and Master’s Career Fair exclusively for the GCC. Kerry Landers, the assistant dean of Graduate Studies and a member of the Consortium, is excited to sponsor this event. Through the Fair, graduate students, post-docs, and alumni have another job searching opportunity. Applying [...]

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Dartmouth’s Graduate Studies Office coordinates a Graduate Studies Externship Program, pairing current graduate students with alumni from Dartmouth’s graduate programs.  As part of the program, students spend a day shadowing their alumni host, becoming acquainted with their host’s place of employment and discussing professional goals. For his externship, Justin Richardson, a student in the Department [...]

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With the beginning of a new academic year, the Graduate Studies Office is doing its best to help new students settle in and make the most of their time at Dartmouth. Something that will be crucial for many is employment so, with the help of current graduate students, we have taken a look at some [...]

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