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Best Region for Life on Mars Was Far Below Surface
December 2, 2020

A new study, published in Science Advances, used a model designed by co-author Jacob Buffo, a researcher in Professor Colin Meyer’s lab, to simulate the physical and thermal evolution of thick Martian ice sheets.

Device to Facilitate Social Connections Among Students Wins Jackson Award
November 30, 2020

Congratulations to Group 6 for the best overall performance in ENGS 21: Introduction to Engineering. Team members are: Derek Lue ’21, Brady McCallister ’21, Zoe Schwartzman ’21, and Sunaina Sekaran ’22, who designed and built "HangNow."

Designing Business Solutions for Small Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
November 17, 2020 | Tuck School of Business

MEM candidate Jehlum Vitasta Pandit and her teammate Kavya Narayanan T’22 won third place in the Small Business School Challenge for helping Hanover-based non-profit, Positive Tracks.

Dartmouth Engineering Professor Awarded $400K NSF Grant to Conduct Research on Space Station
November 11, 2020

Professor Zi Chen, in partnership with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), aims to identify the biomechanical mechanisms that drive shape changes in early embryonic brain and heart development. 

Dartmouth Engineering PhD Student Discovers the Gift of Failure
November 2, 2020

After years of work on his polar ice observation buoys, Innovation Program student Cameron Planck watched them all fail. Persevering through a complete redesign, he is now president of his own company.

Opinions Are Not Facts: How Scientific Curiosity May Save Us
October 30, 2020 | Medium

"Why aren’t we—the average citizen and the public policy maker—looking to science to make fully informed decisions?" —Dean Alexis Abramson

Liu Elected OSA Fellow
October 26, 2020

Dartmouth engineering professor Jifeng Liu has been named a fellow of The Optical Society (OSA) for serving with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics.

Why Innovation Needs More Diversity—And How We Get There
October 19, 2020 | Medium

"Diversity isn’t just talk—it’s an important prerequisite to innovation. Without it, things can go horribly wrong." —Dean Alexis Abramson

Virtual Project Lab Brings Back Thayer’s Buzz
October 15, 2020

To help make Thayer School just as dynamic digitally as it is in person, the Computing Services team, working with Thayer's graphic designer, built the Virtual Couch Project Lab.

Innovation Prizes Presented at Virtual Entrepreneurs Forum
October 14, 2020 | Dartmouth News

At this fall's Entrepreneurs Forum, the Dartmouth Technology Innovation and Commercialization awards were presented to engineering professor and biotechnology entrepreneur Tillman Gerngross and research physician Michael Sporn.