"The program has been so fulfilling because we have now begun to really put ourselves back in our sixth-grade shoes." So says graduate student Sarah Valles, a graduate mentor on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Education Partnership Award (SEPA) project.
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Dr. George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and prolific author on race, including recently an op-ed for the New York Times, "Dear White America," spent a week at Dartmouth as part of the Montgomery Fellows program.
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The social media feeds which shape much of today's online experience tend to highlight popular content or users, but do not facilitate direct instantaneous communication from one user to a large group. Jhamar Youngblood, MALS '20, is working to address this need as the founder of The Blast App Inc (TBA!), a suite of tools developed from the premise that one-to-many messaging is the next frontier of digital communication.
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Originally from the southeast coast of India, Sumyuktha completed her Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. She took a gap year between high school and undergrad when she decided to study abroad, "we don't have neuroscience at the Bachelor's level in India and there's only one neuroscience institute.
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In April this year, Curtis Peterson, then Academic Chair of the Graduate Student Council, hosted the annual Three Minute Thesis contest (3MT) at the top of the HOP. The event encourages graduate students to think about the elevator pitch they must be ready to give to explain the impact of their work to a general audience, using only one slide.
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