"Building Community Is Essential' – Postdoc Spotlight: Maggie Hernandez
Postdoctoral fellow Margarita “Maggie” Hernandez discusses her award-winning research on immigration, embodiment, and health—and what she's learned about herself, her field, and doing community-engaged science in a politically charged moment. Read more.
Guarini Alum, Former Postdoc Named Pulitzer Finalists
Torrey Peters, Guarini '14, and former Dartmouth postdoc Bench Ansfield were both named 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalists: Peters in Fiction for Stag Dance: A Quartet and Ansfield in History for Born in Flames. Read more.
Former Neukom Fellow Tracks Rainfall's Big Shift
A new study in Nature co-authored by Corey Lesk, a former Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow who is now a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, finds the world's rainfall is consolidating into bigger storms and longer dry spells, leaving less water for land even as totals rise. Read more.
What Ancient Dog Teeth Reveal About Peru
Dartmouth postdoc Weronika Tomczyk (ecology, evolution, environment, and society) helped uncover the first hard evidence of Peruvian hairless dogs at a 1,200-year-old site in Peru. A clue in their missing teeth led her there. Read more.
A Scientist Who Runs Toward the Fire
Third-year PhD candidate Johnathan Rodgers Gochicoa (molecular and cellular biology, cancer biology) studies radiation resistance in glioblastoma in the Pointer Lab. Off the clock? He's a volunteer firefighter in Lyme. Read more.
Investiture 2026
The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth will host its Investiture Ceremony for graduating master's and doctoral students on Saturday, June 13, 2026.
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