Grad News Forum

Greetings from Hallgarten Hall! In 2012, our graduate students continued to present their research here and abroad. Jessica Thompson has shown that hemodynamic brain activity collected during music listening can predict lists of descriptive labels. She has presented this work at several conferences, including the Cognitively Based Music Information Retrieval (CogMIR) workshop, the conference of [...]

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On Tuesday, September 18th, President Carol Folt held a reception for the incoming class of graduate students, welcoming them to Dartmouth in the beautifully renovated Hanover Inn. President Folt chatted with new students from all disciplines, emphasizing her excitement about the growing strength of graduate studies. The reception was held in the beautiful Hayward Ballroom [...]

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“This is not your father’s symposium. This is a gathering of eagles,” says Dartmouth theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander in describing the inaugural E.E. Just Symposium. The conference is drawing some of the most prominent figures in the sciences to Dartmouth, September 27-29, 2012. Alexander is the newly appointed E.E. Just 1907 Professor of Natural Sciences. [...]

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Dartmouth’s prolific scholars contribute to the creation of new knowledge and the advancement of their disciplines in many ways—one of which is publishing their discoveries and commentary in peer-reviewed journals. From Medieval studies to neuroscience, the work of Dartmouth researchers produced more than 50 articles in August 2012. See a full list of those publications [...]

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The Telluride Film Festival, occurring each Labor Day weekend in Colorado, is considered one of the premier arts events in the country, and consistently presents a remarkable and diverse slate of films. Each year, six films come directly from Colorado for special advance screenings at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. This is a unique [...]

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