Check out this video of recent poster session winner, John Gartner.

In the video, Gartner explains how researchers shoot lasers from a plane to map and understand the effects of dam removal on river current patterns.

Graduate student Ramsa Chaves Ulloa and undergraduate Ellen Irwin discuss lab work, fieldwork, mosquitos, and, most importantly, friendship, mentoring, and mutual development.

Special thanks to:

Ron Bucca, Idan Ginsburg, Sam Beal, Laura Levy, Gifford Wong, John Gartner, Julia Bradley-Cook, Lisa Jackson, Geneva Trotter, and Dean F. Jon Kull. Dartmouth Graduate Studies: Highlights of Fall Term

Duthu, the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies and chair of Native American Studies Program, invoked the words of King in remarks at the annual employee breakfast celebration January 21, 2013.

King spoke those words at Dartmouth in 1962, saying it is the maladjusted of society who reject racism and injustice. Duthu, an enrolled member of the United Houma Nation of Louisiana, recalled the segregated church of his parish as a child and the visiting priest who tore down the rail that separated the Native American parishioners from the white parishioners. This was the act of a maladjusted man, Duthu said.

For the full article go to Dartmouth Now.

Photo by Joe Mehling ’69

Co-authors Vivek Venkataraman and Thomas Kraft collaborated with Dominy on field studies in the Philippines and Africa that inform their PNAS paper. Venkataraman and Kraft are Dartmouth graduate students in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD program in the Department of Biological Sciences, and are supported by National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships.

Did Lucy Walk on the Ground or Stay in the Trees?

Much has been made of our ancestors “coming down out of the trees,” and many researchers view terrestrial bipedalism as the hallmark of “humanness.” After all, most of our living primate relatives—the great apes, specifically—still spend their time in the trees. Humans are the only member of the family devoted to the ground, living terrestrial rather than arboreal lives, but that wasn’t always the case.

To read the full article go to Dartmouth Now.

Filmed by Zach Williams
Edited by Daniel Durcan