Incoming graduate students and postdocs met with Dartmouth President Phil Hanlon '77 at a reception held at the Hanover Inn, hosted annually by the Dean of the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, F. Jon Kull, and staff from the School office.
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Dartmouth’s Graduate Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) is offering a new master’s degree with a concentration in health data science beginning in fall 2018. This new degree is part of Dartmouth’s innovative interdisciplinary graduate program, which trains doctoral students in bioinformatics, biostatistics, and epidemiology.
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The School of Graduate and Advanced Studies (GRAD) hosts Orientation Week for first year graduate students before the beginning of the fall term every year.
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As higher education becomes an increasingly global venture students pursuing advanced degrees tend to look further afield for training and resources in their pursuit of academic excellence. According to a PEW report, international students make up more than half the students being awarded advanced degrees in STEM subjects in the USA.
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Dr. Shannon Hinsa-Leasure is a microbiologist and an associate professor of biology at Grinnell College. Her lab is studying whether the use of copper alloys in hospitals can reduce the number of bacteria on surfaces, a major source of hospital-acquired infections and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes from hog confinements into the environment. While earning her Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology at Dartmouth, Hinsa was a graduate student in the laboratory of professor George O’Toole. When Hinsa was finishing her B.S.
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