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May 19, 2026   |   Dartmouth News

Dartmouth Researchers Assess Agentic AI

Scholars across campus, including engineering professors Eugene Santos Jr. and Cong Chen, balance the promise of autonomous AI with its pitfalls.

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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.

The New York Times

May 07, 2026

Help! We Got to the Gate in the Nick Of Time, But Missed Our Flight.

Quotes Vikrant Vaze, a professor of engineering, on how airlines manage rebooking decisions for delayed passengers. "To their credit, they’re moving in a very fast-moving, dynamic environment," Vaze said.

New Hampshire Union Leader

Apr 29, 2026

New Hampshire Motor Speedway Hosts Engineering Students Who Build and Race Hybrid and Electric Cars

Features Raina White, engineering lab instructor and lecturer, and Dartmouth Formula Racing team members Lamine Sao '28, Nina Kieserman '28, Amelia Smith '28, and Kylie Osborne '27, who are participating in the Formula Hybrid + Electric Competition at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. "I wanted to get better at welding, get better at plasma cutting and have an actual application for it. I realized that this club was the way to do it," Kieserman said.

Research Quick Takes

May 14, 2026

NIH Grant to Translate Neurotransmitter Sensor Technology

PhD student Dongyeol "Shin" Jang, PhD Innovation Fellow Bella Schaub, Research Scientist Wendy Qi, and Professor Hui Fang received a $3M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to translate their sensor technology for real-time monitoring of neurotransmitters into a human medical device. The funding will enable the Fang Research Group to develop a preclinical proof-of-concept for integrating their novel carbon coating technology into neurotransmitter sensors for humans. "This grant is a tribute to years of extraordinary work by our team—Wendy, Shin, and Bella's contributions in particular have been indispensable," said Fang. "By translating our neurotransmitter sensor technology into a human medical device, we stand to transform neurological care, enabling more precisely targeted therapies and accelerating the development of next-generation drugs for brain disorders."

May 07, 2026

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Tendons

PhD candidate Afton Limberg (pictured) is first-author with Lily Giurleo '28, Victoria Ruiz '26, PhD candidate Amritha Anup Th'23, and professors Jay Buckey, Doug Van Citters and Katie Hixon as co-authors on "In Vitro Modulation of Murine Tenocyte Behavior by Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy" published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. The study—a collaboration between Hixon Lab and DBEC—aimed to improve understanding of the effects of oxygen therapy on tendon cells and healing. "I consider tendons one of the most under-studied musculoskeletal tissues," said Limberg. "Hyberbaric oxygen presents a novel non-invasive therapy that could actually promote tendon healing, and we showed that it does have an effect on tendon cells. Next steps are to conduct both ex vivo and in vivo studies that include the full system of biomechanics."

May 07, 2026

AFIT Faculty Fellowship

Professor Wesley Marrero was selected for an Operations Research & Data Science Faculty Fellowship at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). His appointment will focus on fundamental research in sequential decision-making with applications at the DoD. The overall goal is to develop decision-support techniques that account for noncompliance with AI-driven recommendations. "By recognizing that optimal solutions may not always be adopted in practice, this work will help establish a basis for operationally-acceptable automated decision-support throughout the Air Force and Department of Defense," said Marrero.