Grad News Forum

On Sunday, June 10, graduating masters and doctoral students from Dartmouth’s Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs took the stage to celebrate Dartmouth’s 2012 Commencement ceremonies. Dartmouth’s Graduate Programs shone under sunny Hanover skies, as 175 students received their advanced degrees. The Grad Forum wishes the best of luck to all those who celebrated this June! Video by [...]

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Spring has sprung! Well, just incase you needed a few more excuses to get outside and enjoy the wonderful weather, here are ten great Spring activities. 1. Start a garden! Perhaps one of the best things about New Hampshire summers is growing your own produce, flowers, and herbs. Have an apartment? No problem! Many people [...]

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Each year during Graduate Appreciation Week, the Graduate Studies Office hosts the annual Graduate Poster Session in the Top of the HOP. At the poster session, PhD students from Dartmouth’s Arts & Sciences Graduate Programs and the Thayer School of Engineering present their research to the event’s attendees. In addition, a panel of judges—comprised of [...]

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A month into their organizational life, the Graduate Veterans Association (GVA) has already started to coordinate community-service initiatives. The GVA is running a food drive to support the Claremont Soup Kitchen, which is located only a few exits south of Hanover on Interstate 91. With the hope of bolstering the Kitchen’s low supply, the group has worked [...]

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Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth’s David Bucci thinks there is much more going on. “In the last several years there have been data suggesting that neurobiological changes are happening—[there are] very brain-specific mechanisms at work here,” says Bucci, an [...]

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Thalia Wheatley, Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Science (PBS), discusses her approach to graduate mentoring at Dartmouth. Selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Faculty Mentor Award by Dartmouth’s Graduate Student Council (GSC), Professor Wheatley works to keep her graduate students happy, because she believes that happy, self-motivated researchers are more apt to produce [...]

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Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach for America, the nonprofit organization that enlists top college graduates to teach in under-resourced urban and public schools, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth College’s 2012 Commencement exercises on Sunday morning, June 10, on the Green. Kopp proposed the creation of Teach For America in her undergraduate [...]

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David Bucci, Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Science (PBS), discusses his approach to graduate mentoring at Dartmouth. Selected as one of recipients of the Faculty Mentor Award by Dartmouth’s Graduate Student Council (GSC) in 2009, Professor Bucci’s method of graduate mentorship provides his student’s with a balance between being supportive, and allowing them to [...]

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The Dartmouth Board of Trustees appointed Provost Carol L. Folt, PhD, as the interim president of Dartmouth, effective July 1, following the election of President Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. President Kim will remain Dartmouth’s president until June 30 and continue to lead Dartmouth through the conclusion of the academic year and Commencement. Before serving as Provost, Carol [...]

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The Dartmouth Neuroscience Center organized its 26th annual Neuroscience Day on March 16th, 2012. Faculty, postdocs, and students from Dartmouth and the region all participated to make this day a success! The keynote speakers this year were Dr. John Trojanowski (MD/PhD) and Dr. Virginia Lee (PhD/MBA), both from the University of Pennsylvania—they each gave brilliant [...]

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