Earlier this year, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) launched the GSC Blog to encourage more graduate students to express their views. While the Guarini School encourages and supports students who are looking to develop science communication skills by publishing students’ writing, the GSC Blog offers a more casual platform for students’ work.
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The rugged, glaciated, coast of Svalbard, Arctic Norway, contains a record of extreme climate changes, the formation and demise of a supercontinent, and the keys to understanding the plate tectonic evolution of the Arctic (Hoffman et al., 2012; Gasser & Andresen, 2013). In 2016 and 2017, I travelled to southwestern Svalbard to sample, map, and document the rock record and uncover the geological history of this small island archipelago. Support from the Alumni Grant Award allowed me to date previously undated rock strata of southwestern Svalbard.
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Assistant Dean Kerry Landers' research into the experiences of first generation students in the ivy league has been documented in her recent publication, Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League, and was the subject of an article published in the Valley News this week.
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On Friday, April 27, 2018 President Phil Hanlon ’77 announced the public launch of the College’s capital campaign, The Call to Lead. As part of the launch, the President also announced that the graduate school is to be named in honor of Frank J. Guarini ’46. The following Monday, President Hanlon, Dean Kull, and Deans of Tuck, Thayer, and Geisel met with student leaders at an informal coffee reception at Occom Commons to elucidate the goals of the campaign and to provide an opportunity for students to ask questions and learn what the naming of the School means.
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Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon '77 and Gail Gentes '77a welcomed leaders from graduate student organizations, postdoctoral fellowships, and the Graduate Student Council into the President’s residence for a luncheon on April 11, 2018. The diverse group of student leaders represented a wide array of programs and organizations, and everyone in attendance seemed eager to discuss important issues facing the Dartmouth graduate community.
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