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  • International Graduate Mentor Program Welcomes New Faces

    August 17, 2018
    IGMP leaders 2018

    Arriving on campus from overseas international graduate students are helped enormously by mentors from the International Graduate Mentor Program, which is set up to provide students with support as they transition to life at Dartmouth. They plan events throughout the year, which you can keep up with by following the IGMP Facebook page. This year, two new leaders take the helm and we asked them a few questions about their academic background, and their international experience.

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  • Fruit Fly Species Use Social Learning to Protect Offspring

    August 2, 2018
    FRUITFLY

    Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) have a number of attributes that have made them one of the most extensively studied and well understood of all model organisms used in biomedical research. These include sharing many of the genes that cause diseases in humans, having a relatively small genome (fully sequenced in 2000), a short life cycle, and a large number of offspring.

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  • From the Liberal Arts to International Diplomacy

    July 11, 2018
    Carlos Tigreros Guatemala

    Imagine collaborating with government leaders in a developing country, supporting foreign military forces in fighting criminal organizations, confronting the challenges of corruption and poverty, while also adapting to a new culture, language, and country. I had all these responsibilities and more working in the Economic and Political Affairs Division of the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala in the Spring of 2018.

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