Michael Mastanduno, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth, has appointed Chemistry Professor F. Jon Kull ’88 to the position of dean of Graduate Studies. Kull, the inaugural holder of the Rodgers Professorship at Dartmouth College, began his three-year term this month.
[more]Leslie Henderson is concerned about steroid abuse, not necessarily by sports luminaries like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, but rather by adolescents.
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[more]Idan Ginsburg, a graduate student in Dartmouth's Department of Physics and Astronomy, studies some of the fastest moving objects in the cosmos. When stars and their orbiting plants wander too close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, their encounter with the black hole’s gravitational force can either capture them or eject them from the galaxy, like a slingshot, at millions of miles per hour.
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