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Grad Leaders Meet With Prominent Grad Alum First Upper Valley Brain Bee MALS Journal Set for Publication Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Danielle Terrazas Williams Speed Researching Inaugural Event
 
Grad Leaders Meet With Prominent Grad Alum

Grad Leaders Meet With Prominent Grad Alum

On Friday, May, 17th graduate student leaders met with two graduate alumni over lunch to discuss leadership and the role of the graduate community at Dartmouth. Student leaders, including Graduate Student Council (GSC) executive board members, met with Melody Brown Burkins and Allan Weatherwax, the current graduate alumni reps to the Dartmouth Alumni Council. Burkins, [...]

First Upper Valley Brain Bee

First Upper Valley Brain Bee

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 [...]

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 [...]

Julia Bradley-Cook Receives Honorable Mention from AIBS

Julia Bradley-Cook Receives Honorable Mention from AIBS

05 April 2013

Congratulations to Julia Bradley-Cook for being awarded an honorable mention for the 2013 American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award! Each year, AIBS recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who have demonstrated an interest in and ability to contribute to science and public policy. This year competition for the award [...]

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Grad Appreciation Week Just Around The Corner

Grad Appreciation Week Just Around The Corner

04 April 2013

Graduate Student Appreciation Week, commencing April 6, is an annual celebration of the contributions that graduate students bring to Dartmouth. The week combines a wide range of scholarly and social activities. Graduate students work hard.  Each one knows late nights and early mornings. However, all being said, you will have to look hard to find [...]

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Elliott Fisher Named Director of The Dartmouth Institute

Elliott Fisher Named Director of The Dartmouth Institute

03 April 2013

The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth has named Elliott S. Fisher as the director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. An internationally recognized leader in health services research and health policy, Fisher is currently the director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute, as well as the James W. Squire Professor of [...]

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Jeffrey Schnapp of Harvard’s metaLab Gives Talk on Digital Humanities

Jeffrey Schnapp of Harvard’s metaLab Gives Talk on Digital Humanities

02 April 2013

“Imagine a world where scholarship lives in the streets not just in the stacks,” said Jeffrey Schnapp in a lecture on March 7th. A romance languages and literature professor at Harvard University, Schnapp discussed how the digital humanities provides new methods for humanistic inquiry and for sharing scholarly knowledge. Schnapp, who taught in Dartmouth’s French [...]

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Graduate Relief Team to Participate in Relay for Life

Graduate Relief Team to Participate in Relay for Life

27 March 2013

On Saturday, May 11, members of the Graduate Relief Team will participate in the Dartmouth/Hanover/Lebanon Relay for Life event through the American Cancer Society. Relay for Life is the world’s largest fundraising effort to create a world with more birthdays by eliminating cancer from our lives. The event held at Dartmouth is just one of [...]

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Graduate Students Take Winter Weekend Trip

Graduate Students Take Winter Weekend Trip

26 March 2013

With spring fast approaching, the snow stomp has begun to give way to the mud shake. Several weeks ago, however, a group of twenty intrepid and snow-loving graduate students made the trip to Smugglers’ Notch Resort for the first annual Graduate Student Winter Weekend. The group contained students from nearly every graduate program on campus, [...]

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Dartmouth Professor Honors the Father of African Literature

Dartmouth Professor Honors the Father of African Literature

26 March 2013

Ayo Coly has taught Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in all of her courses since she began as an associate professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth six years ago, and she has found that nearly every one of her students read the book in high school. That is as clear a picture as she can give of the [...]

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Graduate Students Join Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts in New York

Graduate Students Join Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts in New York

25 March 2013

In late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy ravaged the east coast, bringing severe damage to several states. New York was hit especially hard. The hurricane created billions of dollars in damage, destroyed thousands of homes, and caused 72 deaths, 48 of which were New York inhabitants.  The outpouring of support immediately following Sandy was impressive. The [...]

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Recent Graduate, Morgan Thompson, Publishes in Prestigious Journal

Recent Graduate, Morgan Thompson, Publishes in Prestigious Journal

22 March 2013

The Graduate Forum would like to congratulate Morgan Thompson on her recent publication in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Volume 20, Issue 1. Thompson, who defended her dissertation this fall in biochemistry, collaborated on the article with Ernest Heimsath, Timothy Gauvin, and Professor Henry Higgs, all of the Department of Biochemistry, [...]

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Wetterhahn Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Bingqian Guo

Wetterhahn Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Bingqian Guo

21 March 2013

Congratulations to Bingqian Guo, winner of this year’s Karen E. Wetterhahn Graduate Fellowship in Chemistry! The Wetterhahn Graduate Fellowship is given each year to an advanced graduate student in chemistry. It honors the memory of Professor Karen E. Wetterhahn, a former chemistry professor at Dartmouth, well-known for her research on toxic metals and how they [...]

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