Grad News Forum

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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A first year student in Darmouth’s Digital Musics master’s program, Phillip Hermans’ graduate research focuses on the compositional structure of music and the auditory elements of computer programing. While this research is a slight departure from the undergraduate work that Phil conducted on voice-controlled synthesizers at Tulane, all of his work at Dartmouth blends elements [...]

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On Tuesday, May 1st at 5:00 PM, elections for the Executive Board for the Graduate Student Council (GSC) were held in Dartmouth Hall. Moderated by the lively Executive Board, each candidate delivered a two-minute speech to the election’s eligible voters, and answered three questions asked by the voters. Votes were cast by secret ballot and [...]

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It’s that time of year! For Dartmouth’s master’s and doctoral students who plan on graduating in June, theses are due this month. If you’re one of the graduate students who has been chipping away at a thesis or dissertation for the past year, the May deadline is the final academic milestone in your graduate studies [...]

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Award-winning writer Tobias Wolff, author of several short story collections including Our Story Begins and the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharoah’s Army, is in residence at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow this month. During his weeklong residency, Tobias Wolff will join several English classes and deliver a public lecture entitled, “Luck and Work: A Writer’s Life,” on Tuesday, April 24 [...]

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On Tuesday, May 1st, eight new graduate students will be elected members of the Executive Board of the Graduate Student Council (GSC) for the 2012-13 academic year. While the departmental representatives of the GSC have already nominated candidates who they feel would be appropriate to serve as year-long representatives of the graduate student body, elections [...]

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Dartmouth’s Graduate Relief Team (GRT) is an organization chaired by Marie Onakomaiya, Student Life Chair of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), which coordinates outreach initiatives for graduate students. This coming week, the GRT is hosting two events open to all graduate students. On Monday, March 25th the GRT is coordinating a dinner at Margaritas to [...]

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Twenty scholars—in fields including economics, history, government, Spanish and Portuguese, computer science and earth science—joined the Dartmouth faculty of arts and sciences this academic year, launching their courses and establishing their research programs. “Each year,” says Michael Mastanduno, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government, “our [...]

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The bi-annual GSC Travel Grant provides graduate students with funds of up to $250 to help defray the costs of attending a conference to present a paper or poster. This funding is meant to supplement but not replace other funding sources, such as funding from a student’s advisor or department or the travel grants offered [...]

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