A Life of Service: Remembering Frank Guarini '46
Frank J. Guarini '46, the congressman and statesman whose gift named the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, has died at 101. Dean Jon Kull '88 says his generosity transformed support for grad students, postdocs, and faculty research campus-wide. Read more.
AI Drafts Can Add to Doctors' Workload, Study Finds
Guarini PhD candidate Parker Seegmiller (computer science) co-led a first-of-its-kind study finding AI-drafted patient messages often need more editing than doctors expect. His team analyzed 146,000 real patient-physician exchanges to figure out what makes AI responses actually helpful. Read more.
AI's Growing Role in Glaciology
Earth sciences doctoral student Mansa Krishna and postdoc Yinmin Liu are using AI to crack problems classical models can't touch — from mapping hidden ice to speeding up simulations. Their work was front and center at Dartmouth's first-ever AI in Glaciology symposium. Read more.
The Science of Uncertainty: Mapping How We Weigh Risk and Reward
PhD candidate Jae Hyung Woo (psychological and brain sciences) used an Alumni Research Award to study how people learn about risk, blending prospect theory with reinforcement learning to uncover the neural roots of adaptive decision-making. Read more.
Your Gaze Has a Signature
Amanda "AJ" Haskins, Guarini '24 (psychological and brain sciences) led a study as a grad student, finding that our eye movements are so distinctive an AI model can use them to tell people apart. The findings could one day help diagnose autism earlier. Read more.
Orientation 2026
Orientation for incoming students and postdocs is Sept. 9-11, 2026. View the schedule.
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