Grad News Forum

The past year has seen a number of awards and exciting events for the graduate program in the Department of Chemistry. Matt Cain, who worked with Professor David Glueck, shared the Hannah T. Croasdale Award, given annually to acknowledge those who best exemplify the qualities of a scholar. His work was also chosen to grace [...]

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the César Chávez Dissertation Fellowship. It was established in 1993 in honor of César Chávez, with the aim of providing support for underrepresented minorities in academia as they pursue their Ph.Ds. By providing our undergraduates with examples of successful Latino students, the fellowship also promotes diversity at Dartmouth [...]

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Graduate students collaborate on the research… Co-authors Vivek Venkataraman and Thomas Kraft collaborated with Dominy on field studies in the Philippines and Africa that inform their PNAS paper. Venkataraman and Kraft are Dartmouth graduate students in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program in the Department of Biological Sciences, and are supported by National Science [...]

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The Graduate Student Council (GSC) is proud to provide funding bi-annually for graduate students travelling to conferences. These funds help members of our community get the most out of their studies by helping them get to present their research and meet other experts in their field. Here are the three students who were awarded a [...]

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A group of Dartmouth graduate women in science who completed fieldwork in Greenland this past summer, as part of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, created a parody of the European Commission’s video, Science: It’s a Girl Thing!, that has attracted some attention. Their video, Science in Greenland: It’s a Girl Thing, [...]

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Save the Date! The newly-formed Graduate Consulting Club is holding their first event – a workshop on the “case interview,” which is an intergal part of the application process. See below for more information: Graduate Consulting Club (GCC) Consulting Interviews: Case Workshop Date: Wednesday, December 12th Location: Steele Room 007 Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm    You’ve [...]

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With the last group of fellows arriving on campus this fall, one might think things are winding down for Dartmouth’s IGERT program. But in reality, research and collaboration are starting to truly cook now that all of the fellows are on campus. “We’re really starting to move rapidly,” says Ross Virginia, the Myers Family Professor of [...]

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A couple of weeks ago we wrote you an article on our upcoming trip to the University of Pennsylvania for the 10th annual Ivy Summit. Well, we went, we had a great time, and we thought we’d share some of our experiences. Each fall, a different Ivy School (plus MIT) hosts the Ivy Summit. These [...]

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It takes years for graduate students to conduct research and write a dissertation, but recently eight of these experienced researchers explained their studies in just three minutes. Their brief lectures came during a workshop this fall that gave Dartmouth graduate students an opportunity to sharpen their presentation skills and hear reactions and advice from audience [...]

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Attending the NSF (National Science Foundation) application workshop, for first and second year graduate students, was a fantastic opportunity to prepare before applying for an NSF fellowship. Although the deadline varies depending on field of study, most applications are due around the second week of November, so the timing of this workshop was great. The [...]

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