Dartmouth researchers were awarded $18.6 million during August, including $7.5 million in new and competing awards. View the complete list of awards, as reported by the Office of Sponsored Projects. Here, Dartmouth Now spotlights three investigators and their work. Xiahong Feng, the Frederick Hall Professor in Mineralogy and Geology National Science Foundation
[more]Chemistry PhD student Xin Su was recently chosen as a Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) Student Information Exchange Program scholar. CAS is a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
[more]Professor Anne Kapuscinski and a team of six students spent summer term examining how a common food fish might address a big question. “How can we design systems that are integrated and that we hope will meet renewable energy needs, food needs, and use water sparingly?” she asks.
[more]The National Research Council (NRC) released on September 28, 2010, its first assessment of doctoral programs at U.S. colleges and universities since 1995. The report analyzed data on more than 5,000 doctoral programs in 62 fields from 212 institutions during the 2005–06 academic year. The report provides two different ranges of ranking for each program, one based largely on peer assessment (the “R” ranking) and another based on quantitative metrics (the “S” ranking).
[more]Genovese.jpg Giulio Genovese, A&S Adv ’10, is the lead author of study identifying variants in the APOL1 gene. (photo courtesy of Giulio Genovese)
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