Yesenia Barragan is the second postdoctoral scholar featured this month in our Proust Questionnaire Postdoc Series. Yesenia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows. She's affiliated with the History Department, the African and African American Studies program, and the Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies program.
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Savannah Dunn has a passion for science communication. A third-year student in the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM), Savannah has authored numerous articles for the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, so when she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Concordia University International Graduate Student Summer School, she jumped at the chance.
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Lorna Young, a postdoc in the Higgs Lab in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, is the newly-elected President of the Dartmouth College Postdoctoral Association.
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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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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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