Aye-aye Lemur 'Heats Up' Its Special Foraging Finger (BBC Nature)
inthenews-BBC.jpg Dartmouth graduate student Gillian Moritz has discovered that Mother Nature gives the aye-aye lemur a unique way of storing energy.
[more]inthenews-BBC.jpg Dartmouth graduate student Gillian Moritz has discovered that Mother Nature gives the aye-aye lemur a unique way of storing energy.
[more]The science of life has a new home at Dartmouth. Under construction since September 2008, the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center has been up and running for academic business since fall term classes began in September.
[more]Science students from Stevens High School in Claremont, N.H., and Woodstock Union High School in Woodstock, Vt., will come to Dartmouth on February 23 to share the results of their research on mercury in the watersheds of New Hampshire and Vermont. The students participated in the Twin State Mercury Project, part of a larger regional mercury project supported by Acadia Partners at the Schoodic Learning Center in Maine’s Acadia National Park and led by Sarah J. Nelson of the University of Maine (Orono).
[more]Professor Anne Kapuscinski and a team of six students spent summer term examining how a common food fish might address a big question. “How can we design systems that are integrated and that we hope will meet renewable energy needs, food needs, and use water sparingly?” she asks.
[more]As part of Dartmouth’s Integrative Graduation Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, eight graduate students and four professors in the fields of biological sciences, earth sciences, and engineering are spending the summer digging into Greenland’s ice sheets and tundra to better understand recent changes to the polar environment.
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