You might take the electronic beep for granted. It's high pitched, alien, maybe even a little cute, maybe even a little annoying. It embodies the machine and yet, it is an entirely human-made sound. A simple piezo buzzer and a sine tone shaped the way in which analog machines sounded for decades, eventually bleeding into the digital technology. Well, what does technology sound like?
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One of the scariest things for me, and I think a lot of us, is entering a space without knowing the rules — both implicit and explicit — by which it operates. It's your first time at your partner's family's house for dinner; a teacher hands you a blank piece of paper; an acquaintance invited you to come jam with them and their buddies; you're playing a co-op battle royale game as a guest on a team that's known each other since middle school.
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Thanks to the generosity of a number of loyal graduates of Dartmouth's graduate programs, the Alumni Fund and the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies have received donations which have been placed into a special alumni graduate fund to support graduate student research.
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Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? Or noticed the sound of a voice when reading silently? There exists a wonderfully rich world of sound that occur in our "mind's ear". These sounds, when grouped together, are often described as imagined sounds as they don't occur as waves in the air around us.
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The Dartmouth Graduate Alumni Research Award is funded through the generosity of alumni of Dartmouth graduate programs. Every school year, graduate students can apply for funding of up to $1000 to support their thesis research.
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