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  • Science Writing Workshop

    December 1, 2017
    Science Journalist Shannon Hall

    Give away the results at the start. This is the last and most difficult of science journalist Shannon Hall’s five “simple communication rules.”

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  • Charlotte Bacon Brings Grant Writing to the Humanities – and Beyond

    November 2, 2017
    charlotte bacon

    This past Wednesday, October 26th, graduate students and post-docs in fields ranging from public health to classics to epidemiology met over lunch with Charlotte Bacon, Associate Director of Humanities Grant Support at the Leslie Center for the Humanities. Bacon joined the College six months ago and is an award-winning fiction author whose professional experience includes leadership roles in the non-profit sector and an eight-year tenure as an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

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  • Science Technology and Engineering Policy Society (STEPS) Mini-Conference

    November 1, 2017
    Professor of Government, Brendan Nyhan, talks to participants

    The Science Technology and Engineering Policy Society (STEPS) held their 2nd annual mini-conference on October 14, 2017. The event advocated for the understanding of science issues impacting our society, namely childhood vaccinations. The conference strategically chose three distinct speakers who focused the issue of vaccinations from three different viewpoints: fundamental vaccine knowledge, effective communication of scientific knowledge, and science policy knowledge.

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  • My Biggest Science Goof

    November 1, 2017

    It’s three o’clock in the morning and I’m wide awake. I started my “day” roughly twelve hours ago, had breakfast at dinner time, and I just ate “night lunch.” This is the inverted life of an astronomer: work all night, squinting at a computer screen, and try to catch some sleep at dawn. I’ve been told humans will adapt to almost anything, which must be true because this now seems normal. Regular, even. However, tonight is not a normal night and I’m alert, excited, and nervous.

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  • Chemistry '16 Alumna Returns with Career Advice for GRAD

    October 26, 2017
    Molly Croteau Chemistry 2016 GRAD Alumna

    On October 20, 2017 Molly Croteau, a Dartmouth GRAD alumna (Ph.D. Chemistry, 2016) met with a group of grad students to discuss her path into industry and her current experiences in a biotech company. Now a scientist at Avitide, Molly shared how she prepared herself for a career in industry from graduate school.

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