Alumni News

Some graduates diving right in to business
April 28, 2013 | The Boston Globe

Alison Stace-Naughton '11 Th'13 talks about "leaping into entrepreneurship immediately after graduation"— to continue working on her start-up, Spiral-E.

Two Dartmouth Students Win NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
April 10, 2013 | Dartmouth Now

As a recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Aryeh Drager ’12 will head to Colorado State University to study atmospheric science.

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.

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.

New issue of Dartmouth Engineer magazine
March 5, 2013

FEATURES: intersections between the arts and engineering; space weather research and avoiding damage from solar storms; re-engineering Thayer School's Machine Shop

Who Needs Batteries? Seacoast Firm Stores Energy With Air
March 1, 2013 | NHPR

NHPR interviews the VP of energy storage company SustainX, founded in 2007 by Professor Charles Hutchinson and engineering students Dax Kepshire Th'06, '09, Ben Bollinger '04 Th'04, '08, and Troy McBride Th'01.

Sproxil Ranked in Top Ten Most Innovative Companies
February 11, 2013 | Fast Company

Sproxil, co-founded by Ashifi Gogo Th’10—the first graduate of Thayer’s Ph.D. Innovation Program, is ranked #7 on Fast Company's list of "Most Innovative Companies 2013." Sproxil is cited "For sticking it to anyone selling fraudulent goods."

M.E.M. Graduate Enters the Fashion World
January 4, 2013

Andrea Marron MEM'12 is making over the digital strategy of a well-known fashion label and in doing so, the image of the average M.E.M. graduate.

LuminAID Featured on NBC’s Today Show
January 1, 2013

Featured on the Today Show's "Top technology trends for 2013," the LuminAID solar light was developed by Dartmouth engineer Anna Stork ’08 and her classmate Andrea Sreshta at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture.

Support Thayer by December 31 ... Get a Tax Break Next April
December 20, 2012

Give online to the Thayer School Annual Fund by midnight EST, December 31, to qualify for a 2012 tax deduction. Even the smallest gift makes a difference.