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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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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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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The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) held a celebratory lunch on Wednesday, April 10th to congratulate ten graduate students nominated as Outstanding Graduate Student Teachers. The nominees were selected by undergraduate students who felt that their TAs/instructors had gone above and beyond their responsibilities. The nominations and lunch were part of the [...]

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Congratulations to graduate student John Gartner, in the Department of Earth Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Gartner’s poster.) Poster Title: Irene Landslides and Sedimentation in Vermont Rivers:  Importance of Gradients in Transport Capacity How do rivers transport sediment [...]

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The Advisor/Advisee Coffee, Tea and Muffin Time was an exciting way to start the last day of Graduate Appreciation Week. The event was held on Friday, April 12 from 9 am to 10:30 am in Occom Commons, inside of the Goldstein Dorm in the new McLaughlin Residential Cluster. By the end of a fun week [...]

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Congratulations to graduate student Alex Schlegel, in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Schlegel’s poster.) Poster Title: A Neural Network Supporting Mental Operations on Visual Imagery Ask a bonobo what you get when [...]

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