Grad News Forum

The 101st Winter Carnival, “Carnival in Candyland: The Sweetest Carnival Ever,” will be held February 9 through 11. The three-day event includes a mix of lighthearted outdoor activities and athletic contests such as the Polar Bear Swim, the family-friendly Occom Pond Party, and the Division I downhill races at the Dartmouth Skiway. In addition to [...]

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At this year’s Winter Carnival–beginning on Thursday, February 9th and running through Sunday, February 12th–Dartmouth’s graduate students are invited to participate in the “2012 Winter Carnival Snow Sculpture Contest!” Feel like participating in one of Dartmouth’s oldest traditions? Then assemble a team of builders from your department, register for the contest by Tuesday, February 7th, and bring your favorite snow [...]

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Streams play a pivotal role in the transport of energy and nutrients to terrestrial systems. For example, young aquatic insects consume algae in streams, fly into forests as adults, and are eventually consumed by terrestrial organisms. Despite the small area of rivers relative to land, materials produced within them feed many terrestrial consumers. Streams may [...]

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This fall, Dartmouth’s Graduate Studies Office coordinated the first “Graduate Studies Externship Program.” Organized by Kerry Landers, Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs, the program paired current graduate students with alumni from many of Dartmouth’s Arts & Sciences Graduate Programs. Over 80 graduate alumni signed up to host current students, and by December, close to [...]

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Graduate Studies Needs a Tagline! Did you ever take a look at an advertising slogan or campaign and think, “I could do better”?  Have you dreamed of stretching your copywriting legs, but couldn’t find an outlet to channel your creativity?  If so, here’s your chance! The Graduate Studies Office is sponsoring a contest to come [...]

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Several chemistry faculty members recently garnered significant awards. Russ Hughes was awarded the 2010 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry, which Dave Lemal was awarded in 2002, and Russ and Dave joined department chair Peter Jacobi as ACS Fellows. Joe BelBruno was given Dartmouth’s 2011 Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award, awarded annually to members [...]

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On Thursday, November 10th, the Graduate Education for the Future Working Group, in conjunction with the Graduate Student Council, hosted an Open Forum in Room 002 of the Rockefeller Center. Designed to explain the Strategic Planning process to graduate students, the forum sought to solicit both student feedback on the Dartmouth graduate experience, and ideas [...]

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Samuel Bakhoum, a Dartmouth PhD ’10 and DMS ’13, was recently published in the December 15th issue of Clinical Cancer Research. Read more about Sam and his research in a recent article from Dartmouth Now. Photo: Eli Burak ’00  

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Dear Graduate Community, Greetings from Hanover! I am writing to update you on the many exciting happenings in the graduate community. Dartmouth’s campus is in the midst of a strategic planning process and Graduate Studies is playing an active role in shaping future. We are leading a Graduate Education Working Group to help chart the [...]

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The students of the Microbiology and Immunology Program have had a remarkably successful year, receiving a variety of awards and recognition from on and off campus. Several students graduated this year: James Cripps in James Gorham’s lab, Michael Molloy who worked with Edward Usherwood, Peter Newell in the O’Toole lab, Karina Pino-Lagos in Randy Noelle’s [...]

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