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Graduate Relief Team Gardening at the Upper Valley Haven April Daigle Lewoczko and Laurel B. Symes Awarded 2013 Croasdale Award Graduate Student, Philip Fernandes, Builds Instruments to Study Northern Lights Portraits of Leadership: 2013 Student Marshals GSC Hosts Another Nerd Nite!
 
Graduate Relief Team Gardening at the Upper Valley Haven

Graduate Relief Team Gardening at the Upper Valley Haven

On Saturday, May 18th, Archana Murali, Stela Celaj, Lisa Jackson, Justin Richardson, Alicia Ong, Yu Zhao, Elizabeth Gillaspy, Angelyca Jackson, and Marie Onakomaiya, members of the Graduate Relief Team (GRT), spent a morning planting a fruit and vegetable garden at the Upper Valley Haven. At the Haven Food Shelf, families in need can come in [...]

April Daigle Lewoczko and Laurel B. Symes Awarded 2013 Croasdale Award

April Daigle Lewoczko and Laurel B. Symes Awarded 2013 Croasdale Award

Each spring, the Dean of Graduate Studies presents the Hannah T. Croasdale Award for academic excellence to graduating PhD students. The award recognizes exemplary scholars, dedicated to research and teaching. This year, the recipients are April Daigle Lewoczko and Laurel B. Symes. Professor Hannah T. Croasdale conducted research and taught biology for more than 40 [...]

Graduate Student, Philip Fernandes, Builds Instruments to Study Northern Lights

Graduate Student, Philip Fernandes, Builds Instruments to Study Northern Lights

Physics and astronomy graduate student Philip Fernandes builds instruments that are shot into space aboard a rocket aimed at the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). The research or “sounding” rockets are launched from sites in Alaska and Norway into the ionosphere that extends between 46-621 miles above the earth during periods of heightened solar activity when [...]

Portraits of Leadership: 2013 Student Marshals

Portraits of Leadership: 2013 Student Marshals

Marshals are selected by fellow students on the basis of good citizenship, enthusiasm, integrity, and positive impact on others. The Marshals carry batons engraved with their names as they lead their classmates to the Green during the Commencement procession. College photographer Eli Burakian ’00 shot portraits of this year’s undergraduate and advanced-degree Marshals. Chidi Anyadike [...]

GSC Hosts Another Nerd Nite!

GSC Hosts Another Nerd Nite!

On Thursday, May 16th, the outgoing academic chair of the Graduate Student Council (GSC), Rich Lopez, hosted Nerd Nite, an event that again proved to be a great opportunity for graduate students to practice public speaking. Since its launch in 2012, Nerd Nite has been helpful in developing students’ skills talking to a general audience. [...]

Poster Winner, John Gartner

Poster Winner, John Gartner

30 April 2013

Congratulations to graduate student John Gartner, in the Department of Earth Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Gartner’s poster.) Poster Title: Irene Landslides and Sedimentation in Vermont Rivers:  Importance of Gradients in Transport Capacity How do rivers transport sediment [...]

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Great Turnout for the Advisor/Advisee Breakfast!

Great Turnout for the Advisor/Advisee Breakfast!

29 April 2013

The Advisor/Advisee Coffee, Tea and Muffin Time was an exciting way to start the last day of Graduate Appreciation Week. The event was held on Friday, April 12 from 9 am to 10:30 am in Occom Commons, inside of the Goldstein Dorm in the new McLaughlin Residential Cluster. By the end of a fun week [...]

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Poster Winner, Alex Schlegel

Poster Winner, Alex Schlegel

26 April 2013

Congratulations to graduate student Alex Schlegel, in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who was one of four winners of the Graduate Poster Session held recently in Alumni Hall! (Below is a summary of Schlegel’s poster.) Poster Title: A Neural Network Supporting Mental Operations on Visual Imagery Ask a bonobo what you get when [...]

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Graduate Students Publish Paper on Secondhand Smoke Sensor

Graduate Students Publish Paper on Secondhand Smoke Sensor

26 April 2013

Recently, Yuan Liu and Sadik Antwi-Boampong of the Department of Chemistry published a paper entitled “Detection of Secondhand Cigarette Smoke via Nicotine Using Conductive Polymer Films” in collaboration with their advisor, Joseph J. BelBruno, Mardi A. Crane-Godreau of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and Susanne E. Tanski of the Department of Pediatrics and the [...]

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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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