Dartmouth graduate student organizers are gearing up for Science Day 2016, Saturday, which takes place April 9. This will be the fourth in a series of annual events that offer scientifically inclined youths a taste of what their future might hold.
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The trend towards home-based recuperation and health care has prompted the need for closer examination of the efficacy and utility of medical devices used at home. Concerns about the implications of the safe and effective use of devices typically used in a clinical setting, but now also used in a home setting, include provision of adequate training, environmental factors such as the cleanliness of the location, and security concerns regarding the transmission of confidential data from the device to the health care practitioner.
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For the past few weeks, award-winning filmmaker and Montgomery Fellow Thomas Allen Harris has been spending time at Dartmouth. And he’s made it a point to keep busy. Besides having intimate conversations with graduate students over lunch at the Montgomery House and teaching an undergraduate class every week, Harris’s experimental project, Digital Diaspora Family Reunion (DDFR), has created his own unique platform for interaction with the Dartmouth community.
[more]As scientists and scholars grapple with shrinking research budgets and out-of-touch politicians, a group of Dartmouth graduate students have founded the Science Technology and Engineering Policy Society (STEPS), an organization working to engage students at the intersection of science and policy.
[more]When Rob Lauzen ’15 volunteered to visit the Orion House, a residential treatment facility serving males ages 11 to 19, he had no idea how he could connect with the residents. But that changed quickly.
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