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)
[more]As part of Dartmouth’s Integrative Graduation Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, eight graduate students and four professors in the fields of biological sciences, earth sciences, and engineering are spending the summer digging into Greenland’s ice sheets and tundra to better understand recent changes to the polar environment.
[more]After obtaining her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Seattle, Allison Henrich '08 came to Dartmouth as a graduate student in the Mathematics department.
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