Faculty News

“Ancient Air” & “Core Science”
August 22, 2012 | International Innovation

Two articles in International Innovation feature engineering professor Mary Albert, Th ’83, and her polar ice sheet research team's study of “firn,” a term for Arctic snow that serves as “an archive of past atmospheric composition, and the relationships between the physical structure of the firn and gas trapping process.”

Exit Interview: Brian Pogue, Dean of Graduate Studies
August 14, 2012 | The Graduate Forum

The Graduate Forum interviews outgoing Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Engineering Brian Pogue and thanks him for his four years of service.

Stretch Students’ Limits
August 8, 2012 | BusinessNH Magazine

Dean Joseph Helble authored this article about the importance of educating students to think outside of their disciplinary boundaries.

It’s the problem, stupid!
August 7, 2012 | Nature Biotechnology

Professor Tillman Gerngross makes the case that the world's most exciting, groundbreaking technology is pointless if it is unable to address an urgent and relevant need.

Brave New World—medical devices use biometrics to prevent hack attacks
August 7, 2012 | Ars Technica

Computer scientists—including engineering professor Ryan Halter—have proposed a wearable healthcare device that uses unique physiological signatures in a patient's heart rate or other physiological response to prevent tampering by malicious hackers.

An inside look at Greenland’s melting surface ice
August 3, 2012 | The Washington Post

Engineering Ph.D. candidate Kaitlin Keegan and Professor Mary Albert are featured in this article about Greenland’s big mid-July “melt” that gave polar scientists a chance to study a rare warming event as it was happening.

New Probe Provides Vital Assist in Brain Cancer Surgery
July 24, 2012 | Dartmouth-Hitchcock

MD/PhD student Pablo Valdes worked with David Roberts and Keith Paulsen to help develop a probe that uses an innovative fluorescence-reading technology to help brain surgeons distinguish cancerous tissue from normal tissue.

Ten Professors Honored With Faculty Awards
July 20, 2012 | Dartmouth Now

Professor Vicki May is one of ten faculty members recognized this year for exceptional achievement in scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. The class of 2012 voted for May to receive the Jerome Goldstein Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Getting By, Getting Ahead: Start-Up Entrepreneur Brings High-Tech Talent To Rural N.H.
July 10, 2012 | New Hampshire Public Radio

In some ways, Professor Tillman Gerngross is the father of the Upper Valley’s biotech community. Originally from Austria, Gerngross came here in the late 1990s to be a professor of bioengineering at Dartmouth.

Professor Wegst Selected to Participate in NAE's U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
June 21, 2012 | NAE

Professor Ulrike Wegst is one of seventy-eight of the nation's brightest young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 18th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.