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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Keith J. Fritschie, EEES

    May 16, 2018
    keith fritschie alumni research award

    In mid-October, among a parade of fallen leaves, I snorkeled the reach of the Dead Diamond River where Second College Grant historian Jack Noon ’68 thought I might find spawning fish. Dorsal vermiculation and yellow spots on a green background helped brook trout hide among the gravels, woody debris, and dappling sunlight that patterned the riverbed. Thankfully, after 20 minutes of searching, the white fins and blaze orange bellies of male brook trout revealed their spawning location.

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  • GSC Launches New Blog

    May 15, 2018
    Aaron Karp **Winner of Best Research Writing blog pos

    Earlier this year, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) launched the GSC Blog to encourage more graduate students to express their views. While the Guarini School encourages and supports students who are looking to develop science communication skills by publishing students’ writing, the GSC Blog offers a more casual platform for students’ work.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2017 Recipient: Virginia T. Wala, Earth Sciences

    May 11, 2018
    Field camp site on St. Jonsfjorden, Svalbard

    The rugged, glaciated, coast of Svalbard, Arctic Norway, contains a record of extreme climate changes, the formation and demise of a supercontinent, and the keys to understanding the plate tectonic evolution of the Arctic (Hoffman et al., 2012; Gasser & Andresen, 2013). In 2016 and 2017, I travelled to southwestern Svalbard to sample, map, and document the rock record and uncover the geological history of this small island archipelago. Support from the Alumni Grant Award allowed me to date previously undated rock strata of southwestern Svalbard.

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  • What’s the Buzz? 6th Annual Upper Valley Brain Bee Teaches Local Students about Neuroscience

    May 10, 2018
    contestants and volunteers gather at the 2018 Upper Valley Brain Bee

    Silence falls across the auditorium. “Would you repeat the question please?” asks 15-year-old Sanjana Kunnikuru, peering up at the panel of three judges sitting at the front of the room. She stands side-by-side with the top five competitors at the Upper Valley Brain Bee, finalists in the day-long neuroscience competition. “Absolutely. It’s a tough one,” says Matthew Havrda, Assistant Professor of Molecular and Systems Biology at Dartmouth.

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