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All Five Sharks Pounce, But Mark Cuban Gets The Deal: $200k For LuminAID
February 20, 2015 | Business 2 Community

On Shark Tank’s special episode devoted to business started by college students, Andrea Shresta and Anna Stork '08 asked the investors to put their money in LuminAID.

Thayer’s Mary Albert Awarded $17.4 Million NSF Grant
February 20, 2015 | Dartmouth Now

The grant funds the engineering professor’s U.S. polar ice drilling research through 2018.

LuminAID co-founders to appear on ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’ on Friday night
February 18, 2015 | Chicago Tribune

Anna Stork '08 and Andrea Sreshta, who designed their first lamps in 2010, are scheduled to appear on ABC’s “Shark Tank” on Friday night, 8pm CT.

Google-style Ranking Used to Describe Gene Connectivity
February 13, 2015 | NCCC

Adjunct Professor of Engineering Eugene Demidenko introduced a new bioinformatics concept called Gene Rank which reflects how well a particular gene is connected to other genes—similar to the PageRank system used by Google.

Graduate Alumni Research Award Recipient: Jilai Zhou
February 10, 2015 | The Graduate Forum

Jilai Zhou, PhD candidate at Thayer School, is a recipient of the Dartmouth Graduate Alumni Research Award funded through the generosity of alumni of Dartmouth graduate programs.

Study: Meltwater Drives the Warming of Greenland Ice Sheet
February 10, 2015 | Dartmouth Now

Professor Chris Polashenski ’07, Thayer ’07, ’11 is lead author of a study that sheds light on the mechanisms that control the melting of the ice sheet.

Registration for Second DartmouthX Online Course Now Open
February 4, 2015 | Dartmouth Now

Dartmouth engineering professor Vicki May says she’ll encourage creativity in “The Engineering of Structures Around Us.”

How Lake Forest’s Jack Traynor picked Dartmouth
February 4, 2015 | Chicago Tribune

Lake Forest linebacker Jack Traynor wrote an essay for Pioneer Press detailing his decision to attend Dartmouth.

Cerenkoscopy monitors breast treatments
February 3, 2015 | Medical Physics Web

With Professor Brian Pogue as senior investigator, Cerenkov radiation imaging of soft tissue (Cerenkoscopy), has been used to monitor radiotherapy patients in its first clinical trial.

How Dartmouth’s President Is Trying To Cut The Rising Cost Of College
February 3, 2015 | WBUR

President Hanlon told each of the schools at Dartmouth — the college, the engineering school, the medical school and the business school — to reallocate 1.5 percent of its spending.