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Community-integrated classes engage students
February 17, 2012 | The Dartmouth

The Tucker Foundation collaborates with faculty to incorporate community-based research and learning into classes in various departments—such as building a play structure for Lyme Nursery School as part of a course on engineering design.

Thayer app. numbers increase by 35 percent
February 16, 2012 | The Dartmouth

While application rates at DMS and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been consistent with previous years, Thayer School has seen a notable increase in its application pool, which grew by approximately 35 percent for the class entering in Fall 2012.

Dartmouth engineering school hosts virtual career fair
February 14, 2012 | The Boston Globe

There will be match making going on at Dartmouth on Valentine's Day, but romance has nothing to do with it. Thayer School is hosting its second Virtual Career Fair using Skype to connect recruiters with students.

Thayer team redesigns solar tech.
February 9, 2012 | The Dartmouth

Professor Jifeng Liu's research team is pursuing a full patent for a process to create less expensive solar cells that are up to twice as efficient as the current technology.

Women remain minority at Thayer
February 7, 2012 | The Dartmouth

Although Dartmouth’s engineering program stands out for its relatively high number of female engineering students, some say Thayer School should do more to reach out to incoming female students.

Who is The Entrepreneur: Tom Brady
February 6, 2012 | Forbes

"I was first exposed to entrepreneurship in an undergraduate engineering course at Dartmouth" --Tom Brady ’66 Th’68, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Plastic Technologies, Inc.

Dartmouth’s Cool Robot is literally cool
February 2, 2012 | Nashua Telegraph

The Dartmouth engineering group flew to Summit Station on the Greenland ice over the summer to test "Cool Robot," an autonomous robot being designed to wander in Greenland.

Thin Film Intelligence Brief
January 31, 2012 | PV Insider

Dartmouth has granted a world-wide exclusive license to Solar-Tectic LLC for technology invented by Professor Jifeng Liu that enables the first-time commercialization of single crystal silicon thin-film solar cells.

Ode To Ice
January 27, 2012 | NPR

Science Friday visited Queens ice sculptor Shintaro Okamoto in his studio and spoke with ice researcher Erland Schulson, of Dartmouth, to find out why ice is an interesting subject for artists and engineers.

Solar-Tectic LLC gets exclusive license for manufacturing single c-Si thin-films on ordinary glass
January 27, 2012 | Global Solar Technology

Dartmouth has granted a world-wide exclusive license to Solar-Tectic LLC for technology invented by Professor Jifeng Liu that enables the first-time commercialization of single crystal silicon thin-film solar cells.