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Jan 06, 2026   |   Dartmouth News

Eric Fossum Awarded Draper Prize for Engineering

One of the top awards from the National Academy of Engineering, it's the latest honor for the Thayer professor, a pioneer in digital imaging.

The Guardian

Jan 07, 2026

We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse

Professor Colin Meyer co-authors an opinion piece about technology advancements that can help stop total collapse of the world's glaciers. "Technologies we can bring to bear include satellite-based radar, solar-powered drones, robot submarines, lab-based 'artificial glaciers,' and advanced computing technologies, including artificial intelligence," he writes.

The African Exponent

Jan 06, 2026

How Sim Shagaya Built Konga Into One of Africa's Leading E‑Commerce Platforms

Simdul Shagaya Th'99, who earned his master of engineering management from Thayer, is featured in a storya bout how he launched his company Konga to be one of Africa's leading e‑commerce platforms.

New Hampshire Public Radio

Dec 26, 2025

New Research From Dartmouth Shows How Underwater 'Storms' May Shape Glacier Melt

Professor Yoshihiro Nakayama is quoted about his research into storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that are causing glaciers to melt. "In oceanography, we normally look at time scales like months or years, because these processes are not super fast," Nakayama said. "But when we look into these processes over a few days, we realize that there are some processes that pick up the melt."

MIT Sloan Management Review

Dec 18, 2025

AI Coding Tools: The Productivity Trap Most Companies Miss

Professor Geoffrey Parker, faculty director of the Irving Institute for Energy and Society, talks about the effects of using generative AI in coding, particularly the creation of complex code that can have more bugs and be more difficult to fix. "The danger is you sort of push the accelerator and then you're getting a lot of things done and then all of a sudden the complexity starts to go up. And then things start to entangle and you get a lot of spaghetti, and then you bog down," Parker said.

Research Quick Takes

Hélène Seroussi holds her award

Jan 08, 2026

Cryosphere Science Lecture

Professor Hélène Seroussi was selected to give the John F. Nye Lecture at the Cryosphere section reception of the AGU Fall Meeting. The award recognizes recent accomplishments and outstanding ability to communicate scientific research. "My talk was about 'Preparing for Sea-Level Rise: Are ice sheet models up to the challenge?' which discussed current capabilities and challenges of ice sheet models to help improve predictions of sea-level rise," said Seroussi.

Hizir and Vaze hold the AGIFORS award

Jan 08, 2026

Better Airline Crew Recovery Plans

Professor Vikrant Vaze co-authored "Large-Scale Airline Crew Recovery Using Mixed-Integer Optimization and Supervised Machine Learning" published in Transportation Science. Based on work by Vaze's co-advisee at MIT, Ahmet Esat Hizir (pictured), this research won the "Best Innovation" award at AGIFORS' 2024 Crew Management Study Group Meeting. "By teaching a computer to learn from past disruption recovery attempts and then guiding a powerful optimizer with those lessons, we have built a fast, flexible tool that helps airlines get their crews back on schedule more efficiently, cut costs dramatically, and reduce the ripple effects on passengers," said Vaze.

Posing with posters at NeurIPS

Dec 18, 2025

LISP Lab at NeurIPS

Three members of Professor Peter Chin's LISP Lab—PhD students Mai Pham and Junyan Cheng, and post-doc Xavier Cadet—presented at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) which drew a record-breaking 26,000 attendees. Their presentations addressed optimal auction design, multi-agent cooperation, and language models for autonomous scientific discovery.