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		<title>Field Work in Costa Rica Proves ‘An Amazing Experience’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not every college student wants to spend 10 weeks in rural Costa Rica, working long hours in the field while battling muggy weather and vicious mosquitoes. But count Ellen Irwin ’14 as one who does. &#160; “It was a lot of fun,” she says. “It was an amazing experience.” Irwin spent a term last year [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not every college student wants to spend 10 weeks in rural Costa Rica, working long hours in the field while battling muggy weather and vicious mosquitoes. But count Ellen Irwin ’14 as one who does.</p>
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<p>“It was a lot of fun,” she says. “It was an amazing experience.”</p>
<p>Irwin spent a term last year working with Ramsa Chaves-Ulloa, a PhD student in the <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biology/eeb/">ecology and evolutionary biology</a> program, collecting insects from 12 streams in rugged northwest Costa Rica. It was just one of the ways the two women, who have spent countless hours together in the classroom, field, and laboratory, have built a mutually beneficial academic relationship as mentor and mentee.</p>
<p>During their stay in Costa Rica, Chaves-Ulloa and Irwin collected hundreds of insects from different streams. Part of Chaves-Ulloa’s research is focused on Costa Rica, where she looks at whether human land use affects the number and type of insects in Costa Rican streams, and which insects, and how many of them, will emerge from the stream and perhaps be eaten by riparian predators such as spiders, bats, and lizards.</p>
<p>For the full article, go to the <a href="http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/05/field-work-in-costa-rica-proves-an-amazing-experience/">Dartmouth Now</a>.</p>
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		<title>First Upper Valley Brain Bee</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>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 <a href="http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/ncd/">Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth </a> and the <a href="http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/ncd/overview/sfn/">Society for Neuroscience New Hampshire Chapter</a>, this event would not have been possible without the hard work of Marie Onakomaiya and Alex Bender, the two graduate students responsible for envisioning and organizing this outreach project. Dr. Michelle Sama, coordinator of the Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, also played a key role in orchestrating the event.</p>
<p>The competition was advertised to high school students throughout the entire Upper Valley, and ultimately students from six different schools competed. Weeks prior to the competition, Onakomaiya and Bender visited these schools to host “Brain Boot Camps” in which students were taught basic neuroscience and neuroanatomy and provided with study materials. After many weeks of preparation, the brainy students were ready to show off their neuroscience knowledge.</p>
<p>In round one of the competition, participants completed a short quiz, identified brain structures on real human brains, and diagnosed “patients” played by volunteers from the Dartmouth neuroscience community. Afterwards, the students had a break for lunch and visited a variety of activity stations run by professors from the medical school. Dr. Rand Swenson showed students brain specimens, Dr. Jeff Cohen and Dr. Alissa Thomas taught participants how to conduct a neurological exam on a patient, and Dr. Olga Emery provided demonstrations illustrating various brain functions. Meanwhile, Dr. Michelle Sama ran a “Color Your Brain” station for younger attendees. These activities concluded with a talk about Parkinson’s disease from neurology professor, Dr. Stephen Lee.</p>
<p>Having patiently waited long enough, the top five scorers from the first round were announced and brought up to the front of the room to compete in round two. This culminating phase was structured similar to a spelling bee: competitors answered questions from three different categories and were eliminated after responding to two consecutive questions incorrectly. Questions were asked by the judges of the event, four members of the Dartmouth neuroscience community (Dr. Allan Gulledge, Dr. Barbara Jobst, Dr. Jeremy Barry, and myself).</p>
<div id="attachment_8405" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8405" alt="Dr. Hermes Yeh, the MC for the event, congratulates first place winner Jane Plomp, a 9th grader from Lebanon High School." src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/brain_bee_3_edited-300x240.jpg" width="300" height="240" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Hermes Yeh, the MC for the event, congratulates first place winner Jane Plomp, a 9th grader from Lebanon High School.</p></div>
<p>Jane Plomp, a 9<sup>th</sup> grader from Lebanon High School, took first place and will have the opportunity to compete in the National Brain Bee held in Washington, DC, next March. Molly Cornell, an 11<sup>th</sup> grader from Hanover High School, won second place, and Morgan Keller, a 12<sup>th</sup> grader from Lebanon High School, won third place.</p>
<p>Onakomaiya and Bender certainly accomplished their initial goal, which was &#8220;to introduce neuroscience to local high school students and provide a way for them to have fun learning about the brain,&#8221; says Bender. Based on everyone’s fantastic performance throughout the competition, it is evident that participants learned a great deal of information. Onakomaiya and Bender received a lot of positive feedback and hope that the Upper Valley Brain Bee will become a yearly tradition here at Dartmouth. Onakomaiya notes that &#8220;this year’s participants have already expressed interest in doing it again next year and will be recruiting their friends to join them.&#8221;</p>
<p>by <i>Max Mehlman</i></p>
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		<title>MALS Journal Set for Publication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Students across Graduate Studies have a lot of things to look forward to this spring. The newest edition of the <em>MALS Journal</em> is one of them.</span></p>
<p>During the last week of classes, Katie Moritz and Jamaal Downey, MALS students and the editors of the <em>Journal</em>, will release their second, and final, journal of the academic year.</p>
<div id="attachment_8394" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8394" alt="From left - Mortiz, Downey, Tiernan and Paige. " src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/journal1-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">From left &#8211; Mortiz, Downey, Tiernan and Paige.</p></div>
<p>“It’s lots of long nights – lot’s of coffee cups on the floor of my car,” Moritz said, “but it’s worth it.”</p>
<p>The <em>Journal</em> has taken on a new life of late. For years, it had been published under the title the <em>MALS Quarterly</em>, and was a newsletter-style printing. Last year’s editor, Erin O’Flaherty, shrunk the publication’s size and demanded new rigor for its submissions. O’Flaherty helped give the <em>Journal</em> (still called the <em>Quarterly</em> at the time) a new sense of prestige.</p>
<p>“We want to be sure Erin gets a ton of credit,” Downey said. “She revolutionized the publication. We started from such a great place, and just tried to realize the final pieces of that vision.”</p>
<p>So Moritz and Downey made some final changes to complete the revitalization of the publication. First, they decided that the <em>Journal</em> should be issued twice a year, instead of once a quarter, to improve competition for space in its pages. And, with the help of MALS Director Wole O., they secured an ISSN number from the Library of Congress, taking the publication to a whole new level.</p>
<p>The result?</p>
<p>“We had over one hundred submissions this time around,” Moritz said. “We turned away so many amazing pieces. But we’re left with a great publication.”</p>
<p>That publication will feature eight poems, two short stories, four nonfiction pieces, one oral history piece, and four photographs, drawn from current MALS students and alumni of the program. The work is drawn from all of the tracks the MALS program offers – the general track and the Cultural Studies, Globalization Studies, and Creative Writing tracks (Moritz and Downey are on the general track).</p>
<p>“The program sometimes feels so abstract at times, because students are all over the place, and everyone has different interests,” Moritz said. &#8220;But there is a strain of commonality in all these pieces. I realized that everyone here is concerned with making something better. There’s a strong flavor of social justice in our community. It’s idealistic, but it’s wonderful.”</p>
<p>Downey agreed. “From the submissions we read, one thing is clear. MALS is a group of strong, independent thinkers. My role as editor helped me to see these common threads.”</p>
<p>“And,” he added, “my writing and editing skills improved dramatically.”</p>
<p>These are all things that the next editors – Henry Paige (MALS – General Track) and Erin Tiernan (MALS &#8211; Cultural Studies) – have to look forward to.</p>
<p>“We are extremely excited for the opportunity to build upon the great work continued by Katie and Jamaal,” Tiernan said. “As next year&#8217;s editors, we hope to increase the visibility of both the MALS Program and the <em>Journal</em>.”</p>
<p>For MALS students, the <em>Journal</em> will find its way into their office mailboxes. For anyone else interested in a copy, Moritz and Downey encourage stopping by the MALS office on the first floor of Wentworth to pick one up.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-8381" alt="Wadsworth_photo_main_corrected" src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/Wadsworth_photo_main_corrected.jpg" width="240" height="360" />In the coming year, <a href="http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/patricia-wadsworth">Patricia Wadsworth</a>, professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will join <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/?p=6507">Melody Brown Burkins</a> 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 and frequently returns to campus to <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/?p=7719">provide guidance to graduate students</a>. The Graduate Studies Office thanks Weatherwax for his active participation on the Alumni Council and in the graduate community more generally. “Alan Weatherwax has been a great graduate representative on the council, and we will miss his leadership,” observes Assistant Dean of Recruiting, Jane Seibel.</p>
<p>Professor Wadsworth is an active member of her local Dartmouth Alumni Club in the Pioneer Valley, and she is looking forward to becoming involved in the Graduate Alumni Council. She completed her PhD at Dartmouth in 1983, working with Professor Roger Sloboda. The Graduate Forum recently had the opportunity to speak with Professor Wadsworth about her time at Dartmouth and decision to join the Graduate Alumni Council.</p>
<p>Graduate Forum (GF): What inspired you to study biology at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Patricia Wadsworth (PW): My decision to study at Dartmouth stemmed from working at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. I had completed my undergraduate degree in biology at St. Lawrence University, and I took a summer job at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. My boss at MBL was Ken Edds, who received his PhD degree working with Professor Robert Allen, who subsequently moved to Dartmouth as Chair of Biology. Dartmouth researchers often perform research at the Marine Biological Lab over the summers, and I actually worked with several others from Dartmouth there. Dr. Edds had very much enjoyed working with Professor Allen, and he encouraged me to pursue my PhD at Dartmouth.</p>
<p>GF: What types of activities were you involved in while a graduate student?</p>
<p>PW: I spent a lot of time working in the lab, but in addition to that I also participated as a graduate student representative to the biology faculty. There was not a Graduate Student Council at that time, but individual departments did have graduate student representatives to inform them of graduate student happenings and concerns, so I participated as a rep. I also really enjoyed the many outdoor activities that the Hanover area offers. I took up cross-country skiing and went to the Dartmouth Outing Club cabins. There was a lot of camaraderie amongst the biology graduate students, and we would have different evening gatherings throughout the term.</p>
<p>GF: How did your graduate experience at Dartmouth prepare you for your position as a professor?</p>
<p>PW: As a graduate student, I had the opportunity to be a teaching assistant for several different courses. I feel that being a TA was great preparation for the teaching that I do now. The undergraduate students at Dartmouth are very bright and working with them was both challenging and satisfying. Although at the time I was primarily interested in being in the lab and working on my research, I think it would have been much harder for me to transition to a faculty position had I not had the chance to observe Dartmouth professors teaching and work with undergraduates there.</p>
<p>GF: What was it that made you decide you wanted to be a part of the Graduate Alumni Council?</p>
<p>PW: There are really two reasons that I decided to get involved in the Alumni Council. The first is that as a professional, I feel that it is important to maintain connections with the institution where you studied. As a graduate student, you are heavily involved in the work of your advisor, and when you graduate, you tend to maintain that connection to your mentor as you become a young faculty member. However, it is also important to have broader connections to the institution as a whole and to have interactions with your other classmates. I think that at the time I graduated, there was less emphasis on mentoring activities and maintaining connections, but now there is starting to be more recognition of how important these mentoring connections are.</p>
<p>The second reason that I decided to join the Council was that I am already involved in the Pioneer Valley Dartmouth Alumni Club. My father-in-law, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1939, is very active in the Alumni Club, and I started attending events with him and really enjoyed them. They have annual dinners, activities for families, and other events two to three times a year. Based on my interactions with the Alumni Club, I decided that I would like to be more involved in the broader Dartmouth alumni community and joining the Council seemed like a great way to get involved.</p>
<p>GF: Do you have any specific goals for the Alumni Council?</p>
<p>PW: My main goal is to enhance the opportunities for graduate alumni to get involved in the Dartmouth community.</p>
<p>We thank Professor Wadsworth for taking the time to talk with us, and we look forward to working with her in the future to promote the work of the Graduate Alumni Council!</p>
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		<title>Dartmouth Vets and Athletes Mentor Orion House Teenagers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Bucca and Desmond Webster, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies students, cited in Dartmouth Now for work with Orion House. When Rob Lauzen ’15 volunteered to visit the Orion House, a residential treatment facility serving males ages 11 to 19, he had no idea how he could connect with the residents. But that changed [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_8369" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 364px"><img class=" wp-image-8369" alt="orionhouse" src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/orionhouse.jpg" width="354" height="236" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ryan McManus ’15 (second from left), Ed von Kuhn ’14 (third from left), Orion House residential coordinator Justin Fromer (center, blue shirt), Rob Lauzen ’15, fourth from right, and William Guinee ’15 (right) visit with Orion House residents.</p></div>
<p><em>Ron Bucca and Desmond Webster, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies students, cited in </em>Dartmouth Now<em> for work with Orion House.</em></p>
<p>When Rob Lauzen ’15 volunteered to visit the Orion House, a residential treatment facility serving males ages 11 to 19, he had no idea how he could connect with the residents. But that changed quickly.</p>
<p>“After our first visit, it wasn’t like we were doing community service,” he says. “It’s a lot of fun. We are just going, hanging out with some great kids, and trying to do a little bit of good.”</p>
<p>It seems to be working.</p>
<p>Nearly every week since October, a group of Dartmouth <a href="http://www.dartmouthsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=11600&amp;SPID=4719&amp;SPSID=48870">football</a> players and graduate student military veterans have made the 40-minute drive south to Orion House in Newport, N.H. Orion House takes in underprivileged adolescent males who suffer from substance abuse, have family problems, and/or are dealing with emotional and behavioral issues.</p>
<p>It all began when Ron Bucca, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mals/">(MALS)</a> student, heard about the not-for-profit from a friend. Shortly thereafter, Bucca, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant, and other members of the <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dgva/dgva/Home.html">Dartmouth Graduate Veterans Association</a> traveled to the residential facility.</p>
<p>But after a few trips, <a href="http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/04/listen-and-learn-field-notes-from-haiti/">Bucca</a> thought Orion House residents might connect better with Dartmouth student-athletes: There would be less of an age gap between the residents, and the boys might have more in common with athletes, since nearly all the Orion House residents play sports. So Bucca approached classmate and football player <a href="http://www.dartmouthsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=48871&amp;SPID=4719&amp;DB_LANG=C&amp;DB_OEM_ID=11600&amp;ATCLID=204980308&amp;Q_SEASON=2012">Edward von Kuhn</a> ’14 about volunteering at Orion House. Once football season ended, Von Kuhn and a crew of teammates joined the veterans on a trip to Orion House.</p>
<p>“When the football guys started coming,” Bucca says, “that’s when this really took off.”</p>
<p>For the full article go to the <a href="http://now.dartmouth.edu/2013/05/dartmouth-vets-and-athletes-mentor-orion-house-teenagers/">Dartmouth Now</a>.</p>
<p>Photo by <em>Eli Burakian</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year’s Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams, graduated this past week from Duke University. Her dissertation focuses on the lives and entrepreneurial activities of free women of African descent in Veracruz, Mexico in the seventeenth century. She is finishing up her fellowship at Dartmouth and will be moving in the fall to a post-doctoral [...]]]></description>
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<p>This year’s Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams, graduated this past week from Duke University. Her dissertation focuses on the lives and entrepreneurial activities of free women of African descent in Veracruz, Mexico in the seventeenth century. She is finishing up her fellowship at Dartmouth and will be moving in the fall to a post-doctoral position at Princeton University.</p>
<p>Terrazas Williams holds a BA in Afro-Mexican studies from Cornell University and an MA in history from Duke University. She first became interested in the history of the colonial period and in particular the experiences of those of African descent in Mexico as an undergraduate. For her the connection is also personal. Her mother is Mexican American and her father is African American.</p>
<p>Terrazas Williams chose to pursue graduate studies at Duke University because it is renowned for both its Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and its Department of African and African American Studies. Her advisor, Professor Pete Sigal, a full professor and director of Graduate Studies in the History Department, has been very helpful and supportive of Terrazas Williams as she has undertaken her dissertation research, spending three years living in Mexico and examining archival documents in Xalapa, Veracruz. In particular, Terrazas Williams works with legal and notarial documents, tracing the births, marriages, purchases, sales, and deaths of wealthy free women of African descent in the region.</p>
<p>One of the difficult aspects of her work, explains Terrazas Williams, is reading and interpreting extremely old documents that have not always been well preserved. While the documents in the archives where she conducted her research were in relatively good condition, Terrazas Williams has run into some cases where general wear and decay, as well as insect damage, have made materials hard to work with. For example, she recounts an instance in which the age of a boy being sold away from his mother and into slavery was torn off of the corner of a document. It would have been compelling in her dissertation, observes Terrazas Williams, to have been able to include “whether the boy was four or ten when he was sold,” but she notes that this is sometimes what happens when one works with documents that are hundreds of years old.</p>
<p>In her dissertation, entitled <i>Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century</i> Terrazas Williams presents the women she studies as industrious businesspeople in contrast to a view of them as simply patrons, dependent on the men in their families. She notes that past research has not approached the lives of these sometimes wealthy women from the perspective of their entrepreneurial activities. She also explores issues of respectability and how the women she studies managed their investments and other forms of capital in ways that reflected their sense of respectability and their efforts to be respectable.</p>
<p>Terrazas Williams’ decision to come to Dartmouth stemmed from hearing about the positive experience of a fellow graduate of Duke University, Dr. Reena Goldthree, who is now an assistant professor of African and African-American Studies at Dartmouth. Dr. Goldthree told Terrazas Williams that the faculty in the African and African-American Studies Program at Dartmouth were very helpful and supportive during her time as a Thurgood Marshall fellow. “I have found that to be very true,” observes Terrazas Williams, noting in particular that Professor Antonio Tillis, chair of African and African-American Studies, has been especially encouraging of her work. She adds, “I knew that the faculty at Dartmouth would not only make sure that I finished my dissertation work, but also that I was well-placed in an academic position after my fellowship.”</p>
<p>Terrazas Williams has very much enjoyed her time at Dartmouth, commenting that it has given her a chance to work with scholars whom she admires and to complete the job application process, as well as her dissertation. In her position at Princeton, her focus will be on working to turn her dissertation into a book. She will also teach a class, possibly on race and the enlightenment.</p>
<p>The Graduate Studies Office wishes Terrazas Williams the best of luck as she moves onto the next step in her academic career!</p>
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		<title>Speed Researching Inaugural Event</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere researchers go, be it a conference, a job interview, or simply meeting a colleague in the hallway, people ask the obvious question: “So tell me about your work?” It goes without saying that the ability of researchers to describe their research in lay language efficiently is one of the most important skills to be [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright  wp-image-8353" alt="speed_researching_2_main" src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/speed_researching_2_main.jpg" width="360" height="180" />Everywhere researchers go, be it a conference, a job interview, or simply meeting a colleague in the hallway, people ask the obvious question: “So tell me about your work?” It goes without saying that the ability of researchers to describe their research in lay language efficiently is one of the most important skills to be acquired, regardless of the field of research.</p>
<p>On Monday, April 29, assistant dean of Graduate Student Affairs, Kerry Landers, initiated a speed researching event aimed at developing students’ communication skills. In this event, students were expected to explain their research to their smart, but not expert, colleagues in only two minutes!</p>
<p>“We have received feedback from faculty who attended the recent Graduate Poster Session and were impressed with many of our graduate students’ ability to explain their research to non-experts,” notes Landers. “The goal of this speed researching event was to provide another opportunity for graduate students to continue to improve this essential skill.”</p>
<p>At the event, a total of 10 students explained their research to each other in pairs over lunch, followed by a two-minute constructive comments session. Students came from programs in biology, chemistry, engineering, genetics, MALS, and physics and astronomy. A wide range of research topics were discussed, including black holes, prion diseases, and the causes of the Arab Spring. Each student had the opportunity to present his or her research five times, providing plenty of practice.</p>
<p>“This event was great! I now know what other students in genetics, engineering, and chemistry do,” commented Daniel Durcan, a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies student, who also serves as the graduate student activities coordinator. Durcan continued, “The clarity for the presentations was very impressive. I thought it was a great opportunity to practice explaining my research to students from other disciplines.”</p>
<p>The event was somewhat similar to the Three-Minute Research Presentation sessions held by the Graduate Studies Office in the past. However, there is a subtle difference in emphasis between the two events. The Three-Minute Research Presentation sessions involve a single three-minute talk and aim to improve public speaking skills. On the other hand, “speed researching” aims to help students present their research swiftly to several people—a skill they will need at job fairs or conferences. Such a skill is crucial in a competitive academic environment.</p>
<p>Speed researching is, indeed, very helpful and from the looks of it, a very successful idea. Please keep your eyes open for the second speed researching event!</p>
<p>by <i>Gilbert Rahme</i></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“I really don’t want to talk, I just want to listen”</p>
<p>The words of F. Jon Kull, Dean of Dartmouth Graduate Studies at a debriefing session on the issues of sexual assault and prejudice at the College.</p>
<p>On Monday 6<sup>th</sup> May, the Graduate Student Council and the Grad Studies Office held a program wide-debriefing session to discuss the recent unrest at Dartmouth. Classes were cancelled on Wednesday 24<sup>th</sup> April due to an escalated conflict between fellow students and with the administrati<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">on.</span></p>
<p>A group of student protestors had disrupted the Dimensions events to highlight their dissatisfaction with College responses to discrimination, specifically sexual assault, on campus.</p>
<p>The venue of the protest, the Dimensions event, was particularly controversial. Many students see the Dimensions Show as an iconic part of the Dartmouth experience. It brings prospective students to the College where they sit through a performance by current students.</p>
<p>The response of what appears to be a minority of students to the protests amounted to aggressive cyber bullying.  Some Dartmouth students had taken to posting on the “Bored at Baker” website. This site allows for posting anonymous comments, usually in a humorous context. However on this occasion, the comments were aggressive and derogatory. Some comments even threatened violence.</p>
<p>Given the very serious nature of this bullying, which included threats of personal harm, the College cancelled classes to allow for space for students to discuss what had happened. There were teach-ins amongst other events to provide this space. Many graduate students took the opportunity to get involved in these events.</p>
<p>Members of the GSC executive board got together with Dean Kull to organize a debriefing session for graduate students. The meeting was open candid and informal. All students were encouraged to speak. Each student filled in an anonymous comment card giving their thoughts on the issues at hand. Kull then collected and redistributed these cards to facilitate discussion.</p>
<p>One of the meeting’s first points of discussion was where graduate students stand in relation to the worrying events. Graduate students have a unique place on campus. They do not share the same culture as undergraduates, yet are inseparable in so many ways. They act as mentors and teachers, making the Dartmouth experience as rounded as possible.</p>
<p>Graduate students’ experiences of mentorship meant that the issues, protests, conflicts and subsequent events affected graduate students as they did undergraduates. However there was an acceptance that graduate students had some responsibility in increasing communication between the two communities.</p>
<p>Many of the comments and suggestions raised at the session were enthusiastic about further participation with the undergraduate community and undergraduate organizations. There was the feeling that the graduate community has a responsibility to help nurture a Dartmouth environment that is welcoming for all.</p>
<p>Speaking on the event and the issues, GSC President Lisa Jackson said, “One of the biggest themes that arose in the discussion was the need for better communication between graduate students and undergraduates.”</p>
<p>Jackson continued “I echo the sentiments of many in the room who said these events have exposed a communication gap in that regard, and thus, an opportunity to reach out to undergrads moving forward in order to help foster more unity on campus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Above all, the event showed there was unanimity that it is important to discuss these problems, and to be bold standing up when a student feels that their position at Dartmouth is threatened.</p>
<p>We encourage all graduate students to reach out to Dean Kull, the Grad Office and the GSC if they wish to further talk about these, or any other issues.</p>
<p>by <em>Dan Durcan</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday May 8th, the GSC held it’s annual elections for the Executive Board. Eight positions were open for election. They were: President, Vice President, Finance Chair, Student Life Chair, Academic Chair, Secretary and two Social Chairs. The Executive Board is responsible for the leadership of the GSC. Each member has their own portfolio and collectively [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_8330" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-8330" alt="The GSC Exec Board" src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/real1-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Old and new &#8211; Exec Board &#8217;12-&#8217;13 and &#8217;13-&#8217;14</p></div>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">On Tuesday May 8</span><sup style="line-height: 19px;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">, the GSC held it’s annual elections for the Executive Board. </span>Eight positions were open for election. They were: President, Vice President, Finance Chair, Student Life Chair, Academic Chair, Secretary and two Social Chairs. The Executive Board is responsible for the leadership of the GSC. Each member has their own portfolio and collectively they run action teams and organize social events. They also represent the GSC and Dartmouth, meeting the president of the College, the trustees, and<a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/?p=6864"> grad leaders at other Ivy Schools</a>.</p>
<p>While all graduate students are welcome to run in Executive Board elections, votes are cast by Departmental Representatives who have fulfilled both the attendance and volunteer requirements outlined in the GSC constitution: to vote, Departmental Representatives must attend all council meetings (two absences allowed) and volunteer at two GSC events.</p>
<p>The GSC’s role is to nurture and enhance a sense of graduate student community across Dartmouth’s graduate departments, schools, and programs. The GSC consists of elected <a href="http://sites.dartmouth.edu/gsc/the-gsc/representatives/">Departmental Representatives</a> from all Graduate Arts and Sciences programs, including TDI and Thayer, and non-voting representatives from the Tuck School of Business and the Geisel School of Medicine.</p>
<p>The winners of this year’s elections are:</p>
<p>President: Lisa Jackson</p>
<p>Vice President: Anne Xu<br />
Finance Chair: Adrienne Perkins<br />
Student Life Chair: Meg Menon<br />
Academic Chair: Laurie Laker<br />
Secretary: Drew Wong<br />
Social Chairs: Haofeng Li and Erin O&#8217;Malley</p>
<p>For more information about the GSC, please visit the <a href="http://sites.dartmouth.edu/gsc/">home page</a> and don’t be afraid to reach out to your new Exec Board.</p>
<p>Elections for Departmental Representatives are held in the fall term.</p>
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<p>The Exec Board in their own words:</p>
<p>Lisa Jackson, TDI, President: <i>I feel so honored to have been elected President of the GSC for the upcoming school year! Building off the work initiated by this year&#8217;s GSC executive board and council as a whole, I hope that next year&#8217;s GSC will continue to foster communication and collaboration between the other grad student governments, between grad students and undergraduate students, and between grads and the college administration and broader Upper Valley community. By working together, we can continue to enhance the Dartmouth experience for everyone! Congratulations to my fellow executive board members elected on Tuesday as well; I can&#8217;t wait to work with you all<b>.</b></i></p>
<p>Ani Xu, MALS, Vice President: <em>For a long while, I&#8217;ve struggled with the concept of community at Dartmouth, or the lack thereof. Lately and thankfully, I&#8217;ve been proven dead wrong. I am absolutely overwhelmed by the strength of character of the students here. This community has given me so much and I sincerely hope that by serving as Vice President of the Graduate Student Council, I will have the opportunity to contribute back to the absolute best of my abilities. I am beyond excited to work with this excellent group of people in the coming year.</em></p>
<p>Adrienne Perkins, Biology, Finance Chair: <i>I&#8217;m happy to have the opportunity to continue serving and working with the GSC as Finance Chair.</i></p>
<p>Drew Wong, Thayer, Secretary: <i>I am excited to build on the framework established by the former GSC committees and to pave the way for the future councils.</i></p>
<p>Meg Menon, MALS: <em>I look forward to working with the Graduate Student Council, as we support your interests and strive toward fostering our deep sense of community through tangible and sincere efforts. I promise to do my best in this position and  I encourage you to think of me as an advocate for your well-being and an agent for change that you would like to affect. Thank you.</em></p>
<p>Laurie Laker, MALS, Academic Chair: <i>I&#8217;m honored and excited to have been elected to the GSC Executive Board. We&#8217;re all here at Dartmouth to better ourselves academically, and I&#8217;m excited to have the opportunity to serve our graduate student community towards that betterment. As a current MALS rep on the GSC, I&#8217;m excited to take the reigns of Academic Chair from Rich Lopez &#8211; who has done a tremendous job this past year. I can&#8217;t wait to get started.</i></p>
<p><i></i>Haofeng Li, Social Chair<em id="__mceDel" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">: <i>Excited about this great opportunity! Hopefully our efforts will make this coming year awesome:)</i></em></p>
<p>Erin O&#8217;Malley, Social Chair: <em>I am very excited to have been elected as the GSC Social Chair for 2013.  I look forward to being able to bring many diverse groups together and provide the very important social interactions that can all too often get missed in our hectic lives as graduate students.  Also, I look at this as an opportunity to use leadership skills to plan events that everyone can enjoy and to make this another successful year.</em></p>
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		<title>PhD Candidate, Sarah Henderson, to Start New Postdoc Position</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Graduate Forum would like to congratulate Sarah Henderson, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, on her new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, New York. Henderson plans to graduate this summer and begin working in New York City [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8310" alt="Sarah_H_fmri_main" src="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gradnewsforum/wp-content/uploads/Sarah_H_fmri_main-300x240.jpg" width="300" height="240" />The Graduate Forum would like to congratulate Sarah Henderson, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, on her new position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan, New York. Henderson plans to graduate this summer and begin working in New York City this June. She is currently finishing up her dissertation on the influence of ambivalence on executive functioning and cigarette smoker’s emotional and neural responses to smoking cues.</p>
<p>Henderson grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut, and completed her undergraduate studies at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, majoring in psychology and political science. After graduating, she worked as a paralegal at a law firm, but then quickly realized that she did not want to pursue a law career.</p>
<p>Next, Henderson worked as a research assistant at the Children&#8217;s National Medical Center, conducting quality of life research with children suffering from epilepsy, Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome, neurofibromatosis, and autism. To this day she remains involved with Brainy Camps, a week-long summer camp for children with chronic health conditions. In addition, she volunteers weekly at David’s House, a volunteer-run home-away-from-home dedicated to supporting the families of children being treated at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.</p>
<p>After working at the Children’s National Medical Center, Henderson worked for a contract research agency where she conducted pharmaceutical research for the National Institutes of Health. Following this, Henderson decided to come to Dartmouth to pursue her PhD in cognitive neuroscience in order to work with some of the top people in the field.</p>
<p>Henderson works with Professor Catherine Norris and employs fMRI and eye tracking as a means for studying ambivalence (i.e., emotional conflict), self-regulation, and addiction. Her dissertation examines how ambivalence, or the state of having contradictory feelings toward something, affects cognitive processing and subsequently, the regulation of cigarette smoking. For example, she found that when viewing images of smoking, participants with a desire to quit smoking showed less activity in reward regions of the brain and more activity in regions associated with internally directed attention.</p>
<p>In her time at Dartmouth, Henderson has presented posters at academic conferences, including the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, the Society for Social Neuroscience, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Henderson was also the recipient of the 2011 Basic Psychological Science Research Grant from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students.</p>
<p>In her new postdoctoral fellowship position at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Henderson will research pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, using a variety of neuroimaging and neurobiological techniques. Along with her advisor, Vilma Gabbay, she will investigate new ways to improve the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of many of these disorders.</p>
<p>We wish Henderson all the best in her new position!</p>
<p>by <i>Andrea Worsham</i></p>
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