Grad News Forum

Congratulations to graduate student Alex Schlegel, in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Schlegel’s poster.) Poster Title: A Neural Network Supporting Mental Operations on Visual Imagery Ask a bonobo what you get when [...]

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Recently, Yuan Liu and Sadik Antwi-Boampong of the Department of Chemistry published a paper entitled “Detection of Secondhand Cigarette Smoke via Nicotine Using Conductive Polymer Films” in collaboration with their advisor, Joseph J. BelBruno, Mardi A. Crane-Godreau of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Susanne E. Tanski of the Department of Pediatrics and the [...]

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Congratulations to graduate student Marianna Kleyman, in the Department of Biochemistry, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Kleyman’s poster.) Poster Title: STAG2 Regulates Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachments in Human Cells Chromosomes must be faithfully segregated during cell division to allow for normal [...]

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Congratulations to graduate student Sadik Antwi-Boampong, in the Department of Chemistry, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Antwi-Boampong’s poster.) Poster Title: Detection of Formaldehyde Vapor Using Conductive Polymer Films Formaldehyde is a ubiquitous carcinogen that leaches from construction materials, household [...]

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On Wednesday April 10th, the Graduate Studies Office hosted the annual Graduate Poster Session. This event gives graduate students the opportunity to present their research to a wide audience. It also serves as the setting for the presentations of the Graduate Community Award, Faculty Mentoring Award, and four Poster Awards. In a crammed Alumni Hall, [...]

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For Princeton University professor and former US State Department official, Anne-Marie Slaughter, it has been a busy year. Her manifesto chronicling the struggle of today’s professional women attempting to achieve work-life balance, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” (July 2012), quickly became the Atlantic’s most viewed article of all time (The Colbert Report interview, [...]

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On Saturday, April 6th, over 150 children and adults turned out for the very first Science Day at Dartmouth. F. Jon Kull, dean of Graduate Studies, dubbed Science Day, organized by Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE), a “great success.” Anna Prescott and Aarathi Prasaad, PhD candidates in Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) and [...]

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Graduate Studies is proud to highlight Julie Skinner of the Department of Physics and Astronomy for her many contributions to the field of astronomy and the Dartmouth community at large as she prepares to defend her thesis. Skinner went to the University of Oklahoma where she received a BS in astrophysics. While at OU, she [...]

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The Sustainability Action Team (SAT) is a newly formed arm of the Dartmouth Graduate Student Council (GSC) concerned with providing a voice for sustainability efforts and awareness in the Dartmouth graduate community. During Earth Week 2013, on April 23, the group will be hosting their first event, an e-waste collection site, in collaboration with the [...]

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The Graduate-Undergraduate (G-U) Mentoring Program was officially launched on April 4th, 2013 with a kick-off event co-sponsored by Dartmouth Graduate Studies and Career Services. The launch event was hosted at the Career Services office in downtown Hanover and began with an introduction of the Mentoring Program by graduate students, Max Mehlman and Marie Onakomaiya. A [...]

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