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Jun 04, 2026   |   by Betsy Vereckey

Dartmouth Engineering to Graduate First Online Master's Degree Program Cohort

At Commencement, 21 students will become members of the inaugural graduating cohort of Dartmouth's first fully online degree, with over half making the trip to celebrate in person.

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May 19, 2026 | Dartmouth News

Dartmouth Researchers Assess Agentic AI

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Inside Higher Ed

Jun 01, 2026

Can You Build an Electric Race Car?

Highlights that the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth created a Formula SAE hybrid team in 2006, which helped spur the creation of a national competition in 2007 that now includes electric race cars and other categories.

EOS

May 20, 2026

Changes in Sea Ice Microstructure Could Affect Climate Models

Don Perovich, a professor of engineering, comments on new research examining how granular sea ice changes the threshold at which brine channels allow water flow through ice. "It's the sequel we've been waiting decades for," Perovich said.

Associated Press

May 18, 2026

Summer Travelers Who Relied On Spirit Airlines May Struggle To Find Budget Alternatives

Vikrant Vaze, a professor of engineering, comments on challenges facing budget airlines following the shutdown of Spirit Airlines and rising fuel costs tied to the Iran war. "Even though they can be clubbed together as budget airlines, if you want a big umbrella term, they're very different from each other," Vaze said.

The Dartmouth

May 08, 2026

From the Friends of Dartmouth Boathouse to Thayer School of Engineering: Douglas Van Citters '99, Th'03, GR'06's Dartmouth journey

Interim Thayer dean Van Citters discussed his days as a student-athlete on the heavyweight rowing team and what brought him back to Hanover as a professor.

Research Quick Takes

PhD candidates Adelaide Cagle, Afton Limberg, Amritha Anup Th'23, and Aleyna La Croix.

Jun 04, 2026

More Ethical Research in Bone Tissue Engineering

PhD candidates Adelaide Cagle, Afton Limberg, Amritha Anup Th'23, and Aleyna La Croix, and Professor Katie Hixon co-authored "Advancing the 3Rs in bone tissue engineering: emerging in vitro, in silico, and refined in vivo strategies," an invited review published in Frontiers in Physiology. The article was for a special issue addressing the 3Rs approach—replace, reduce and refine animal models—to improve preclinical research. "This review summarizes recent progress in advanced in vitro platforms, including organoids, bioprinting, and organ-on-a-chip systems, as well as in silico modeling approaches designed to decrease reliance on animal experimentation," said Anup.

May 28, 2026

Presenting on More Sustainable Microchip Technologies

The Liu Research Group presented at the 2026 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, showcasing their latest research on next-generation semiconductor materials and processes for more sustainable microchip technologies. Presentations included: Professor Jifeng Liu on atomic ordering in semiconductor alloys as a new degree of freedom for performance-sustainability synergy; PhD student Shangda Li on defect mitigation in low-temperature Ge and GeSn heteroepitaxy on silicon using self-assembled nanoscale oxide templates; and PhD student Yicheng Wang on identifying atomic short-range order in SiGeSn alloys using atom probe tomography toward sustainable infrared semiconductors.

May 28, 2026

Environmental Impacts of NICUs and Their Alternatives

An undergraduate capstone project team—Will Clendenning Th'24, Chad Klaas '24 Th'25, Samantha Melgar '24, and Ismael Rosales-Albarran '24—along with co-author and CEDC Director Emily Monroe, published their project results titled, "Using Life Cycle Assessments to Measure the Environmental Impact of Alternative Care Models in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The team compared traditional hospital NICUs against "Hope Grows at Home," a home-care model for premature infants. Although other evidence shows no difference in health outcomes, their assessment showed significant reductions in both carbon emissions and solid waste by shifting to the home-care model.