Grad News Forum

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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In the coming year, Patricia Wadsworth, professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will join Melody Brown Burkins on the Graduate Alumni Council. She will be taking over from Allan Weatherwax, who is completing his time as a member of the council this spring. Professor Weatherwax earned his PhD in physics in 1995 [...]

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Like the rest of the world, Matthew Sturdevant, MALS ’08, was shocked and horrified when he first learned of the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., on December 14, 2012. But then he had to go to work and cover the unfolding tragedy for the Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s largest daily newspaper. A Courant staff writer since 2009 and a [...]

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The Graduate Studies Office and I are seeking nominations for a Graduate Alumni Representative to sit on the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Nominees are expected to represent the interests of graduates of Dartmouth’s Graduate Programs, drawing on their own experience as grad students at Dartmouth to guide them in promoting the interests of the programs. Nominees [...]

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By now I am sure that you have heard about the appointment of Philip J. Hanlon as the 18th President of Dartmouth. This is what key figures in Graduate Arts and Sciences are saying: Dean of Graduate Studies-F. Jon Kull “I am very pleased about the appointment of Philip Hanlon as President of Dartmouth. He is [...]

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Graduate Students and Community: As the term winds to a close, and winter begins to set in, I wanted to take a minute to address the graduate community. I’ve been settling in to my new position here at Graduate Studies, and I’m enjoying all of the opportunities to interact with and on behalf of our [...]

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Dartmouth Graduate Studies is a proud supporter of the Dartmouth Graduate Veterans Association’s Veterans Day Banquet, which will take place on Friday night. The Graduate Forum has highlighted the group’s commitment to community service and veterans affairs. This article comes to us from the Dartmouth Now.  In recognition of Veterans Day on November 11, Dartmouth is [...]

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This year, Melody Brown Burkins, Senior Director of Research & Strategic Initiatives at the University of Vermont, has joined Allan Weatherwax on the Graduate Alumni Council, while Mark Durand has wrapped up his time on the council. Mark completed his MS in Biology at Dartmouth College in ‘84, and has since remained committed to graduate [...]

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This week, Michael Mastanduno, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth, announced that Professor of Chemistry F. Jon Kull ’88 has been chosen as the new of dean of Graduate Studies. I sat down with Dean Kull in his new office this week, to talk about his new position and the graduate programs at Dartmouth: [...]

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The Graduate Forum would like to extend a warm welcome to the new Dean of the Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs, Professor of Chemistry, Jon Kull, ’88. We’re excited to have Dean Kull working in the Graduate Studies office – stay tuned for our interview with him, which we’ll publish later this week. For the [...]

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