Grad News Forum

On Saturday, May 18th, Archana Murali, Stela Celaj, Lisa Jackson, Justin Richardson, Alicia Ong, Yu Zhao, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Angelyca Jackson, and Marie Onakomaiya, members of the Graduate Relief Team (GRT), spent a morning planting a fruit and vegetable garden at the Upper Valley Haven. At the Haven Food Shelf, families in need can come in [...]

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Each spring, the Dean of Graduate Studies presents the Hannah T. Croasdale Award for academic excellence to graduating PhD students. The award recognizes exemplary scholars, dedicated to research and teaching. This year, the recipients are April Daigle Lewoczko and Laurel B. Symes. Professor Hannah T. Croasdale conducted research and taught biology for more than 40 [...]

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Physics and astronomy graduate student Philip Fernandes builds instruments that are shot into space aboard a rocket aimed at the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). The research or “sounding” rockets are launched from sites in Alaska and Norway into the ionosphere that extends between 46-621 miles above the earth during periods of heightened solar activity when [...]

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Marshals are selected by fellow students on the basis of good citizenship, enthusiasm, integrity, and positive impact on others. The Marshals carry batons engraved with their names as they lead their classmates to the Green during the Commencement procession. College photographer Eli Burakian ’00 shot portraits of this year’s undergraduate and advanced-degree Marshals. Chidi Anyadike [...]

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On Thursday, May 16th, the outgoing academic chair of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), Rich Lopez, hosted Nerd Nite, an event that again proved to be a great opportunity for graduate students to practice public speaking. Since its launch in 2012, Nerd Nite has been helpful in developing students’ skills talking to a general audience. [...]

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Dartmouth Ventures, formerly Greener Ventures, was a daylong conference on entrepreneurship with a startup showcase held at Tuck School of Business. The focus of the event was on “success and social value” in business. While the conference was held at Tuck, it was open to the public and offered a great opportunity to all Dartmouth [...]

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In June 2012, the European Commission (EC), the executive body of the European Union, released a marketing video, “Science: It’s a Girl Thing,” with the goal of encouraging young women into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)-related disciplines. The video is on YouTube and has been viewed almost 1.5 million times in the last year. [...]

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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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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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