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The Dartmouth

‘A method, not a field’: Spotlight on Human-Centered Design

Professors Eugene Korsunskiy, Peter Robbie, and Rafe Steinhauer are quoted in an article about "the most popular minor at Dartmouth," which "focuses on developing students' creativity and innovation in 'addressing human needs.'" Professor Beth Ames Eagle is also mentioned as the new director of the Design Initiative at Dartmouth.

Oct 01, 2025

ABC News Australia

Antarctic Research Tests Healthy Bodies and Minds for Astronauts

Professor Jay Buckey is quoted in a segment about the Australian Antarctic Division's work with NASA on medical research and operational medicine. "If you look at what ends missions on Antarctica and other places, a lot of time it's the psychosocial factor. Either crews that don't get along or people who develop depression or stress. So that's a really, really important consideration and shouldn't be trivialized," Buckey said.

Sep 25, 2025

Tech Xplore

Rolling soft electronics yields 3D brain probes for precise neuron mapping

A feature article describes Professor Hui Fang's research, published in Nature Electronics, that demonstrates a method to achieve three-dimensional probe interfacing. The approach solves the long-running "dimensional mismatch" between typical two-dimensional probes and the brain's 3D neural circuits.

Sep 09, 2025

Education Week

Is There a Healthy Middle Ground on AI in Schools? Try Skeptical Optimism

Professor Rafe Steinhauer is quoted in an article about using AI in schools. "I would be nervous about any school district saying, 'We're going all in (on AI).' And I would be nervous about any school district (banning the technology)," Steinhauer said. "We know already that there are tremendous risks to student learning and we know that there are tremendous opportunities with generative AI."

Sep 08, 2025

The Planetary Report

A test bed in the search for life

Professor Jacob Buffo is quoted and named as the leader of a project that studies super-salty lakes on Earth as analogs for environments that likely exist on other worlds like Mars, Europa, and Enceladus. These lakes are "what we believe concentrated ephemeral lakes on Mars could have looked like," and could have provided "the last hypersaline refuges for any potential organisms," said Buffo.

Sep 08, 2025

Aim

The 100 Top AI Engineers In America

Geoffrey Parker, a professor of engineering innovation and faculty director of the Irving Institute for Energy and Society, and founder of Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati Th'12, are named in the top 100 AI engineers in the US.

Aug 26, 2025

Metal AM

Hydrogel-Based Metal AM Offers Breakthrough in Alloy Design

Professor Rebecca Gallivan is quoted about her co-authored study in which researchers developed a method to create metallic objects of a precisely specified shape and composition. "This lays the groundwork for thinking about 3D-printed alloy design in a unique way from other microscale Additive Manufacturing techniques," Gallivan said. "We see that the processing environment leads to very different microstructures in comparison to other methods."

Aug 26, 2025

MIT Sloan Management Review

The Hidden Costs of Coding With Generative AI

Professor Geoffrey Parker co-authored an article about the use of generative AI in coding. "When an organization rapidly introduces new software into existing systems, it can inadvertently create a tangle of dependencies that compounds its technical debt—that is, the cost of additional technological work that will be needed in the future to address shortcuts taken and quick fixes made during development," Parker writes.

Aug 18, 2025