"I am interested in learning about how development is impacting the everyday life and culture of the Bhutanese. Specifically, my research focuses on the nomadic yak herders of Merak, a town in Bhutan. The Graduate Alumni Research Award allowed me to afford travel to Bhutan to live there for several months with a Bhutanese family.
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Rishika De is a PhD candidate in computational genetics in the Department of Genetics with experience in obesity-related interdisciplinary research combining genetics, computer science and statistics, and a deep-set interest in the business of healthcare.
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The objective of my graduate work is to elucidate the dynamics of the debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayan region of HMA and to quantify their melt. Glaciers whose melt zones are covered in rock from the surrounding valley walls comprise a significant portion of the ice in HMA; roughly two-thirds of glaciers in the South Central Himalaya have at least 20% debris cover. But these glaciers behave quite differently than clean ones, and their melt is more difficult to detect and model.
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Sladjana Skopelja-Gardner, a fifth-year PhD student in Dartmouth’s Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM), recently published the first article from the United States to address a role for autoantibodies in cystic fibrosis (CF).
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The Dartmouth Montgomery Fellows Program is currently hosting Belgian artist, Eric van Hove for the Winter 2017 term. Faculty and students were invited to a lunch and discussion with van Hove on Thursday, January 26 at the Montgomery House where Fellows reside during their term(s) at the college.
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