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  • Postdoc Proust

    November 8, 2017
    Postdoc Proust Lorna Young

    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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  • 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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  • Each One, Teach One: Rhodessa Jones Inspires Storytelling 

    October 27, 2017
    Rhodessa Jones and the Montgomery Fellows House

    Performer, writer, and director of the Medea Project, Rhodessa Jones talked about theater and activism through community work and storytelling at a luncheon with students organized by the Montgomery Fellows Program. Founded in 1989, Jones’ Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women is designed to empower incarcerated women and women with HIV through individual storytelling and theatrical performance. She tells students that her project was founded following some intriguing experiences with people, and her own life experiences.

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  • Assistant Dean Publishes on First-Generation Students in the Ivy League

    October 18, 2017
    Kerry Landers First generation Students Navigatin gthe Ivy league Book

    Visiting lecturer at the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program at Dartmouth and Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs, Kerry Landers, has published her first book, titled Post-Secondary Education for First Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League, (Palgrave Macmillan).

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