Carrie Hoverman Colla '01 Named Dean of the Guarini School
Effective Sept 1., Carrie Colla '01 will lead the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies as its next dean. A distinguished health economist, she has been a Dartmouth faculty member since 2010. 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.
Chasing Wildfire Secrets Frozen in Ancient Ice
Earth and Planetary Sciences master's student Jacob Chalif spent three weeks camped on a Yukon icefield, drilling shallow ice cores to trace wildfire smoke, pollution, and climate history — and found the snowpack warming far faster than expected, threatening records preserved in the ice. Read more.
Research Bends a New Angle on Evolution
Chimps bend their ankles to climb; mangabey monkeys bend their midfoot instead — at almost the exact same angle. A new publication from Dartmouth postdoc Luke Fannin, Guarini ’25, offers a fresh angle on the debate over "ape-like" vs. "monkey-like" feet in human ancestors. Read more.
Orientation 2026
Orientation for incoming students and postdocs is Sept. 9-11, 2026. View the schedule.
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