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  • Graduate Externship: Mentoring Beyond Campus

    March 24, 2017
    Sarah Gibbons and Grad Alumnus Jeff Byers

    The GRAD Office Externship Program, or “take a grad student to work day,” gives active graduate students an opportunity to shadow a Dartmouth graduate alumni and live a day in the life at their occupation. In late February, I had the pleasure of observing Dr. Jeff Byers (PhD Chemistry ’84), a faculty member at Middlebury College.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2014 Recipient: Amanda Socha, MCB

    March 21, 2017
    Graduate Alumni Research Award Recipient Amanda Socha

    The Dartmouth Graduate Alumni Research Award has been instrumental in my graduate research this year.  In the Guerinot lab, we study how essential nutrients are “eaten” by and stored in plants. For many of the nutrients that we study the only way to visualize their localization in the plant is to use a giant X-ray to conduct Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (SXRF) microanalysis, which allows non-destructive multi-elemental imaging of plant tissues. The support of this award allowed me access to collaborating synchrotron beam lines.

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  • GRAD Alumni Research Award 2015 Recipient: Max Mehlman, PBS

    March 21, 2017
    graduate alumni research award recipient max mehlman

    Humans have a remarkable capacity for processing spatial information, allowing us to maintain a sense of direction and location as we navigate within our environment. This ability is largely employed unconsciously and thus often taken for granted; however, individuals suffering from chronic spatial disorientation due to brain or vestibular system damage are painfully aware of the vital contribution spatial processing makes to our quality of life.

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