Thanks to funding from a National Institutes of Health (NIH) initiative, two talented undergraduate students from Xavier University of Louisiana, are in Hanover this summer to participate in Dartmouth’s Academic Summer Undergraduate Resource Experience (ASURE) program.
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A picture is worth a thousand words, and we’re in the midst of the creation of a picture so enormous that nobody knows what the story will be, or who will tell it. We’re talking about big data: the phrase du jour that has everyone talking, thinking, creating, and even protesting. Influencing our music decisions, what news we read, and whether or not we should keep stepping in place while making dinner to reach our fitness goals, big data is taking an influential seat at the table. So how should we approach this phenomenon?
[more]Two Dartmouth students have their sights set on very different kinds of science, courtesy of the National Science Foundation (NSF). As recipients of NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, Eshin Jolly will pursue graduate studies in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth while Aryeh Drager '12 will head to Colorado State University to study atmospheric science.
[more]Most people equate "gray matter" with the brain and its higher functions, such as sensation and perception, but this is only one part of the anatomical puzzle inside our heads. Another cerebral component is the white matter, which makes up about half the brain by volume and serves as the communications network.
[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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