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  • Study: Heavy Rains in Northeast Made Worse by Climate Change

    August 17, 2021
    huanping huang

    Record-breaking rainfall across the northeastern United States is part of a larger trend, a new study suggests. Since 1996, states from Maine to West Virginia have seen an abrupt increase in extreme precipitation—heavy rain and snow resulting in storms that can produce up to 2 inches of water a day, depending on location. These extreme events—tropical cyclones, thunderstorms along fronts, and extratropical cyclones like Nor'easters—have coincided with warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

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  • Summer ASURE Researchers Present their Work

    August 17, 2021
    ASURE Summer 2021

    Last week marked the conclusion of Guarini's Academic Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (ASURE) Program in partnership with The Leadership Alliance. ASURE provides summer research experience to undergraduates with an opportunity to focus on academic research, networking, and mentoring in their respective fields.

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  • Dartmouth Remembers Marye Anne Fox, Guarini '74

    July 29, 2021
    Marye Anne Fox, University of California San Diego, received the 2009 National Medal of Science medal from President Barack Obama on Nov. 17, 2010. (AP photograph)

    Before she was a Dartmouth trustee, or the seventh chancellor of the University of California San Diego, or the first woman chancellor of North Carolina State University; before she was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; before President Barack Obama awarded her the National Medal of Science; before her research in organic photochemistry and electrochemistry received international awards; before Esquire magazine named her "Best of the New Generation," Marye Anne Fox, Guarini '74—who died in May after a

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  • Mentor Training Offered to Grads and Postdocs

    July 22, 2021
    some of the participants in the virtual mentor training

    In May, graduate students and postdocs participated in a mentor training workshop series hosted virtually by Kerry Landers, assistant dean of student affairs at the Guarini School, and Cindy Rosalbo, associate director at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL). The series, which ran over four sessions, was a follow-up to the Center for Improving Mentoring Experiences in Research (CIMER) Mentoring Program workshop which Landers and Rosalbo attended in the fall of 2020.

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  • Grant Gutierrez (EEES) Wins Switzer Fellowship

    July 19, 2021
    Grant Gutierrez wins Switzer fellowship

    As flooding and other catastrophic weather events appear with increasing intensity and frequency in our world, displacing peoples, disrupting food and other supply chains, and exerting higher demands on our infrastructure, understanding and addressing climate change becomes an urgent task we can no longer relinquish.

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