Grad News Forum

The Graduate Forum is proud to announce the winners of the Graduate Teaching Awards. The hard working students are Patricia Cahn in the Math department, April Daigle in Chemistry and Morgan Thompson, Biochemistry. Patricia Cahn recently received a PhD in Mathematics. Patricia came to Dartmouth in the fall of 2007, after completing her Bachelor’s at [...]

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On Sunday, June 10, graduating masters and doctoral students from Dartmouth’s Arts and Sciences Graduate Programs took the stage to celebrate Dartmouth’s 2012 Commencement ceremonies. Dartmouth’s Graduate Programs shone under sunny Hanover skies, as 175 students received their advanced degrees. The Grad Forum wishes the best of luck to all those who celebrated this June! Video by [...]

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Spring has sprung! Well, just incase you needed a few more excuses to get outside and enjoy the wonderful weather, here are ten great Spring activities. 1. Start a garden! Perhaps one of the best things about New Hampshire summers is growing your own produce, flowers, and herbs. Have an apartment? No problem! Many people [...]

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The Student Notebook essay offers insight or opinion from a Dartmouth student or trainee. Marcella Lucas is a Ph.D. student in the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine. She was president of the Graduate Student Council in 2010-2011 and is now a coordinator of the International Graduate Mentoring Program. She is currently completing her Ph.D. and plans to [...]

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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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Melody Brown Burkins, Senior Director of Research & Strategic Initiatives at the University of Vermont (UVM), visited Dartmouth recently and spoke at a Women in Science luncheon. During her time as a graduate student at Dartmouth, Melody served as President of the Graduate Student Council (1998-1999), and also won the Hannah Croasdale Award for excellent [...]

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Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach for America, the nonprofit organization that enlists top college graduates to teach in under-resourced urban and public schools, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth College’s 2012 Commencement exercises on Sunday morning, June 10, on the Green. Kopp proposed the creation of Teach For America in her undergraduate [...]

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The Graduate Office, in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Research, recently conducted a survey of Dartmouth graduate alumni in order to gauge their satisfaction with their Dartmouth experience. The survey was sent out electronically to 738 Dartmouth PhD alumni, all of whom were at least five years removed from graduation. Data collection lasted three [...]

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It’s now the end of February, and I’m sad to say as I write this article, it is a balmy 40°F outside. Let’s be honest—at this point, snow looks pretty hopeless. Though there’s a chance that old man winter still has a blizzard or two tucked up his sleeve, it might be time for the [...]

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On Thursday, Feb. 23 at 1:15 p.m., Dartmouth College with the support of the Town of Hanover will test its Outdoor Mass Notification System (OMNS). The OMNS is a commercially available warning system that has been customized for the Dartmouth College campus. The system contains both sirens and voice speakers and is capable of providing [...]

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