The annual Graduate Poster Session provided an opportunity to learn about research conducted by 59 Dartmouth graduate students. This year’s session, on April 12, was part of the annual Graduate Student Appreciation Week, held April 10-16. Attendees included faculty members, students, and others in the Dartmouth community, and poster topics ranged from neutron stars to soil microbes to knee replacement.
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Seventeen Dartmouth students and alumni have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) for 2016, and another nine received honorable mentions. The Dartmouth winners were among the 2,000 selected from 17,000 applicants nationwide.
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“You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire,” says Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee. The human rights activist, whose work to build a nonviolent interfaith women’s movement in Liberia helped end that country’s long civil war, will deliver the main address at Dartmouth’s 2016 commencement exercises on Sunday morning, June 12, on the Green.
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Dartmouth graduate student organizers are gearing up for Science Day 2016, Saturday, which takes place April 9. This will be the fourth in a series of annual events that offer scientifically inclined youths a taste of what their future might hold.
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The trend towards home-based recuperation and health care has prompted the need for closer examination of the efficacy and utility of medical devices used at home. Concerns about the implications of the safe and effective use of devices typically used in a clinical setting, but now also used in a home setting, include provision of adequate training, environmental factors such as the cleanliness of the location, and security concerns regarding the transmission of confidential data from the device to the health care practitioner.
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