The inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival, held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on October 23 and 24, attracted around half a million attendees who interacted with 1,500 exhibitions, including four booths hosted by Dartmouth faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students.
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A panel made up of three graduate students and moderated by the Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs, Kerry Landers, spoke about finding the right job, how to get it, and where to go from there.
[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).
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