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Gerngross Starts Antibody Company to Fight Coronaviruses
August 6, 2020

Dartmouth engineering professor and biotechnology entrepreneur Tillman Gerngross has raised $50 million in venture capital for his newest company, Adagio Therapeutics, to begin clinical trials of antibodies engineered to protect against SARS-CoV-2.

Dartmouth Engineers Team Up on NIH-Funded Program for Artificial Intelligence Tool to Help Doctors Cure Disease
August 4, 2020

Professor Eugene Santos Jr. is PI for developing the Pathway Hypothesis Knowledgebase—an AI-based system that analyzes patients’ clinical and genomic data and the relationship between biochemical pathways that drive health and disease.

Dartmouth Engineers Combine Materials Science Expertise to Develop Concentrated Solar Power System
August 3, 2020

Optoelectronic materials expert Jifeng Liu combined forces with high entropy alloy expert Ian Baker to win a three-year $750,000 grant from the US Department of Energy.

Dartmouth Engineering PhD Student Receives NASA Funding for Glacier Research
July 28, 2020

Brita Horlings won support from the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program for her research related to ice core studies, glacial water resources, and sea-level rise.

Rethinking Flight Schedules for the Post-Pandemic World
July 24, 2020 | SIAM News

"After a precipitous drop in air travel during the early phases of the pandemic, demand is finally showing some signs of recovery," writes Dartmouth engineering professor Vikrant Vaze.

Student Awarded 2020–21 Mazilu Engineering Research Fellowship
July 23, 2020

Jason Liu Th’21 was awarded The Mazilu Fellowship to work with Professor Fiona Li on safer and more efficient battery systems.

Milestone for Center for Engineering and Computer Science
July 22, 2020 | Dartmouth News

The final beam for the new Center for Engineering and Computer Science went into place in June, marking a milestone toward the opening of the facility that will build upon Dartmouth's commitment to technology excellence rooted in the liberal arts.

Dartmouth Engineering Welcomes New Board Chair and Two New Members
July 21, 2020

Samantha Scollard Truex ’92 Th’93 Tu’95 has been appointed Board of Advisors chair for Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, and Michael Adams ’83 and Ashifi Gogo Th’09 Th’10 are the Board's newest members.

Students Convert BiPAP System to Inexpensive Ventilator
July 14, 2020

The device could help hospitals overloaded with COVID-19 patients or countries lacking access to ventilators.

Dartmouth Engineering Students Design Hospital Sensory Pod for Special-Needs Children
July 6, 2020

This year, several CEDC projects aimed to address the unmet needs of vulnerable populations in the Upper Valley—such as a pod designed to help children with sensory processing challenges feel more comfortable in the hospital.