Student News

Spotlight On Design for America: DfA x Dartmouth
April 21, 2011 | core77

DfA's founder Liz Gerber first found inspiration for unconventional design education during Dartmouth's outdoors freshmen orientation. "I realized the potential of peer-to-peer learning and transformation outside of the traditional classroom,"...

Thayer evaluates machine safety
April 19, 2011 | The Dartmouth

Students working in the Thayer School of Engineering machine shop must tie back their hair and wear hats while using equipment.

How Green Is My Wintergreen?
April 19, 2011 | Slate

Assessing the environmental impact of chewing gum: findings of a student project from Professor Cushman-Roisin's Industrial Ecology class is cited.

Dartmouth’s Formula Hybrid Competition draws 33 teams from around the globe
April 15, 2011

Dartmouth's 5th annual Formula Hybrid Competition will take place on May 1–4 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. Founded and run by Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, the competition features high-performance hybrid and electric race cars built by teams of undergraduate and graduate engineering students.

Six Students, One Summer and a Resurrected Log Cabin
April 1, 2011 | Popular Mechanics

When a Dartmouth College junior found his canoe club’s cabin had burned to the ground, he didn’t take it lying down. Instead, Greg Sokol recruited five fellow students, who together became chainsaw masters and learned the ancient art of fitting logs in a sweat-soaked summer of rebuilding what was lost.

Five students compete in global health contest
March 30, 2011 | The Dartmouth

Vaidehi Mujumdar '13, Saryah Azmat '11, Cameron Nutt '11, Allison Arensman Tu'11 and Maija Cheung DMS'13 won an honorable mention in Emory University’s Global Health Case Competition for their hypothetical plan to efficiently allocate resources for 800,000 refugees in East Africa.

President Kim First “Patient” for Students’ Telemedical Invention
March 20, 2011 | Dartmouth Now

Engineering sciences students Alex Knapp ’10, Jeff Spielberg ’10, and Adam Strom ’10 tested their culminating project, a full-featured blood pressure and atrial fibrillation detection system that is compatible with a telemedical health care setting. The team’s first “patient”? President Jim Yong Kim.

A Passion for Learning: Saryah Azmat ’11
March 15, 2011 | Dartmouth Now

Biomedical engineering and engineering sciences double major Saryah Azmat ’11 of Islamabad, Pakistan, has embraced opportunities for undergraduate research.

Student DJs deliver basement beats, dance party remixes
March 1, 2011 | The Dartmouth

During the day, DJs are ordinary students, studying medicine or engineering like many of their peers. But despite their prosaic daytime pursuits, DJs play a crucial role at night: setting the tone for the party.

Dartmouth students study wind in remote African areas
February 22, 2011 | Windpower Engineering

A group of Dartmouth engineering students are using a Nomad 2 Wind Data Logger the company donated to study wind in a remote region of Tanzania.