Recognition for Dartmouth faculty, staff, and students
Robyn
Millan, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is principal
investigator on the Dartmouth team that will develop a balloon experiment to
support a future NASA
mission to study near-Earth space radiation. Called the Radiation Belt Storm
Probes, the $100 million two-spacecraft mission is scheduled for launch in
2012. The mission will study how accumulations of space radiation, which are
hazardous to astronauts, form and change during space storms. The Dartmouth
team's experiment will seek to discover the mechanisms that cause the Earth's
radiation belts to periodically drain away into the planet's atmosphere. Other
teams developing the spacecraft instruments are from Boston University, the
University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa, and the New Jersey Institute
of Technology.
Erland Schulson, George Austin Colligan Distinguished Professor of
Engineering and director and founder of the Ice Research
Laboratory at Dartmouth, was recently named a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals and Materials
Society (TMS), a leading materials science professional society. Schulson
was chosen in recognition of a career of outstanding contributions to the
materials science field. At Dartmouth, he teaches both undergraduate and
graduate courses in materials science, mechanical behavior of solids, phase
transformations, and methods of materials analysis. He will be formally
appointed at an awards dinner in early 2007.
Amanda Carye '07, Nkosi Harvey '06, and
Jean Polfus '06 are the 2006 Book Arts
Prize Winners. The awards for undergraduate students are administered by
the Dartmouth College Library Book Arts Program, which teaches the art and
history of the printed and written word through instruction in letterpress
printing and hand bookbinding. Harvey won the grand prize of $500 for the best
book printed and bound in the Book Arts Workshop during the 2005-06 academic
year. Polfus submitted the winning entry for best letterpress and Carye won for
best example of hand binding. Each will receive a cash prize of $150. The
winning entries are on display in the exhibition cases outside the Treasure
Room in Baker Library though October 1. The Book Arts fall series of workshops,
open to Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff, begins September 25. Visit
their website
for more information.
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