The Croasdale Awards are presented to the graduating Ph.D. recipients who best exemplify the qualities of a scholar, in honor of Professor Hannah T. Croasdale -- the first woman in the Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth to achieve the level of full professor.
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Graduates are chosen by their fellow students for their service and initiative.
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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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