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MALS Journal Set for Publication

MALS Journal Set for Publication

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 [...]

Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams

Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams

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 [...]

Speed Researching Inaugural Event

Speed Researching Inaugural Event

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 [...]

Graduate Students Discuss Dimensions Protests and Aftermath

Graduate Students Discuss Dimensions Protests and Aftermath

“I really don’t want to talk, I just want to listen” 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. On Monday 6th May, the Graduate Student Council and the Grad Studies Office held a program wide-debriefing session [...]

GSC Elections 2013

GSC Elections 2013

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 [...]

Poster Winner, Marianna Kleyman

Poster Winner, Marianna Kleyman

25 April 2013

Congratulations to graduate student Marianna Kleyman, in the Department of Biochemistry, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Kleyman’s poster.) Poster Title: STAG2 Regulates Kinetochore-Microtubule Attachments in Human Cells Chromosomes must be faithfully segregated during cell division to allow for normal [...]

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Poster Winner, Sadik Antwi-Boampong

Poster Winner, Sadik Antwi-Boampong

24 April 2013

Congratulations to graduate student Sadik Antwi-Boampong, in the Department of Chemistry, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Antwi-Boampong’s poster.) Poster Title: Detection of Formaldehyde Vapor Using Conductive Polymer Films Formaldehyde is a ubiquitous carcinogen that leaches from construction materials, household [...]

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Graduate Appreciation Week: Poster Session

Graduate Appreciation Week: Poster Session

23 April 2013

On Wednesday April 10th, the Graduate Studies Office hosted the annual Graduate Poster Session. This event gives graduate students the opportunity to present their research to a wide audience. It also serves as the setting for the presentations of the Graduate Community Award, Faculty Mentoring Award, and four Poster Awards. In a crammed Alumni Hall, [...]

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Boston Travel and Events Advisory

Boston Travel and Events Advisory

19 April 2013

The College is advising people who travel to and from the campus to be aware of possible travel interruptions in the wake of the lockdown, which covers the entire city of Boston and a number of surrounding communities. For the full article go to the Dartmouth Now.

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Leading Voices in Higher Education Series: Anne-Marie Slaughter

Leading Voices in Higher Education Series: Anne-Marie Slaughter

18 April 2013

For Princeton University professor and former US State Department official, Anne-Marie Slaughter, it has been a busy year. Her manifesto chronicling the struggle of today’s professional women attempting to achieve work-life balance, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” (July 2012), quickly became the Atlantic’s most viewed article of all time (The Colbert Report interview, [...]

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GWISE’s Science Day

GWISE’s Science Day

18 April 2013

On Saturday, April 6th, over 150 children and adults turned out for the very first Science Day at Dartmouth. F. Jon Kull, dean of Graduate Studies, dubbed Science Day, organized by Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (GWISE), a “great success.” Anna Prescott and Aarathi Prasaad, PhD candidates in Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) and [...]

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MALS Graduate Part of Pulitzer Prize Runner-Up Team

MALS Graduate Part of Pulitzer Prize Runner-Up Team

18 April 2013

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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Graduate Student Highlight: Julie Skinner

Graduate Student Highlight: Julie Skinner

17 April 2013

Graduate Studies is proud to highlight Julie Skinner of the Department of Physics and Astronomy for her many contributions to the field of astronomy and the Dartmouth community at large as she prepares to defend her thesis. Skinner went to the University of Oklahoma where she received a BS in astrophysics. While at OU, she [...]

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Graduate Sustainability Action Team to Host E-Waste Collection Site April 23

Graduate Sustainability Action Team to Host E-Waste Collection Site April 23

16 April 2013

The Sustainability Action Team (SAT) is a newly formed arm of the Dartmouth Graduate Student Council (GSC) concerned with providing a voice for sustainability efforts and awareness in the Dartmouth graduate community. During Earth Week 2013, on April 23, the group will be hosting their first event, an e-waste collection site, in collaboration with the [...]

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Dartmouth Graduate-Undergraduate Mentoring Program Launched

Dartmouth Graduate-Undergraduate Mentoring Program Launched

15 April 2013

The Graduate-Undergraduate (G-U) Mentoring Program was officially launched on April 4th, 2013 with a kick-off event co-sponsored by Dartmouth Graduate Studies and Career Services. The launch event was hosted at the Career Services office in downtown Hanover and began with an introduction of the Mentoring Program by graduate students, Max Mehlman and Marie Onakomaiya. A [...]

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