The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth will hold its 2018 investiture ceremony on Saturday, June 9 at 4:00 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium in the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
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Leave the Needle on the Jammed Record
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In the process of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for oil and gas extraction directly from black shale, large volumes of wastewater, that includes fracturing fluids and natural brines from the underground rock formation, return to the surface within weeks after fracking. The total volume of wastewater production in Pennsylvania alone has exceeded 40 million barrels per year since 2012, and the number has been increasing. The wastewaters are often highly saline and contain elevated concentrations of radium (Ra) (up to 7000 pCi/L) and barium (Ba) (up to 10000 ppm).
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Mascoma LLC is a biotech company located in the Upper Valley that focuses on biofuels and cellulosic ethanol production. The company was founded in 2005 by Robert Johnsen and Dartmouth professors Lee Lynd and Charles Wyman. The company was acquired by the Montreal-based company Lallemand in 2014. Mascoma is a corporate research and development site for Lallemand and there are currently about 60 employees at the Lebanon, NH site.
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As Thayer School dean, Helble has brought national prominence to the engineering school.
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