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Penguins Adopt New Mode of Transport
April 1, 2013

A waddle of Emperor penguins surprised researchers in Antarctica today when they commandeered Yeti, an autonomous robot designed to detect crevasses.

In Mexico, A Dartmouth Grad Fights Poverty Through Capitalism
March 30, 2013 | Forbes

Dartmouth engineer Fernando Orta '08 returned to his hometown of Mexico City and founded a financial services company called Podemos Progresar (“We can move forward") with a mission to create products and services that change people’s lives.

Can the Ice Wall in Game of Thrones Survive Science?
March 27, 2013 | Wired

Dartmouth engineering professor Mary Albert, Executive Director of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office, explains why the large ice wall in HBO's "Game of Thrones" would not exist in real life.

The nation’s only Formula Hybrid Competition preps for its 7th year
March 25, 2013

Dartmouth's 7th annual Formula Hybrid Competition will take place April 29 – May 2 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This year, twenty teams are registered for the nation's only Formula competition focusing on hybrid-car technology.

Director of Dartmouth’s Master of Engineering Management Program Reflects on Retirement
March 16, 2013

Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Director and trailblazer Robert Graves will in September retire from a much different Thayer School than the one he walked into ten years ago.

Dartmouth Engineering Alum Breaks Speed Record with Tilting Three Wheeler
March 15, 2013

At the annual Motorcycle Speed Trials on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats, Bob Mighell ’85 Th’86 gunned it as fast as his tilting wheels would take him down the mile stretch at an average record-breaking speed of 132.339 miles per hour.

Advanced Surgery Center Opens This Summer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
March 14, 2013

The Advanced Surgery Center on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center campus will be the first in the country dedicated solely to translational research.

Auroral Radar Network Expansion for Space Weather Forecasting to be Completed This Year
March 13, 2013

The final two of eight radars built by Dartmouth engineering professor Simon Shepherd and his former fellow postdocs at JHU APL will complete the mid-latitudes expansion of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN).

High-tech ‘Yeti’ may revolutionize exploration near North and South poles
March 11, 2013 | The Washington Post

Professor Laura Ray's Yeti is a self-guided polar robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to map what lies beneath the ice — often, a crevasse waiting to claim lives and expensive equipment.

Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers Past Concealed Crevasses
March 11, 2013 | Gizmodo

Tractor crews are being led by the Yeti, a four-wheel drive rover equipped with ground penetrating radar designed by students at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering coordinating with engineers from CRREL.