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May 08, 2026   |   Dartmouth Engineer

Leading Thoughts: Designing Next-Gen Devices

Professor John Zhang explains how his work developing miniature medical systems will improve health on a global scale.

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Wildfire Risk and Grid Resilience

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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.

Forbes

Apr 19, 2026

AI Is Becoming Infrastructure, Not Software: What Stanford's Codex FutureLaw Reveals About the Next Era of Intelligence

A session by Oliver Goodenough, an adjunct professor of engineering, at the 13th annual FutureLaw conference at Stanford University explored how AI operates through two distinct logics: some systems follow explicit rules, similar to traditional legal reasoning, while others rely on probabilistic models derived from patterns in data.

Research Quick Takes

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.

May 07, 2026

3D Printing Thermoelectric Materials

Yehalah Fernando '26 won 1st place at the EE Just Program Research Science Fair for her poster presentation about her work in Yan Li's lab in collaboration with PhD students Ya Tang and Mingzhao Li. "My honors thesis research is on 3D printing thermoelectric materials using the direct ink writing method, which would significantly change the manufacturing process when optimized," said Fernando.