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The Dartmouth

Apr 04, 2013

Tesla Tech Fair celebrates innovation

A cacophony of hissing Tesla coils and whirring remote control helicopters filled Thayer School of Engineering's Glycofi Atrium on Thursday afternoon.

Forbes

Apr 02, 2013

In Mexico, A Dartmouth Grad Fights Poverty Through Capitalism

Dartmouth engineer Fernando Orta '08 returned to his hometown of Mexico City and founded a financial services company called Podemos Progresar ("We can move forward") with a mission to create products and services that change people's lives.

Wired

Mar 28, 2013

Can the Ice Wall in Game of Thrones Survive Science?

Dartmouth engineering professor Mary Albert, Executive Director of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office, explains why the large ice wall in HBO's "Game of Thrones" would not exist in real life.

The Washington Post

Mar 12, 2013

High-tech 'Yeti' may revolutionize exploration near North and South poles

Professor Laura Ray's Yeti is a self-guided polar robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to map what lies beneath the ice — often, a crevasse waiting to claim lives and expensive equipment.

Gizmodo

Mar 12, 2013

Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers Past Concealed Crevasses

Tractor crews are being led by the Yeti, a four-wheel drive rover equipped with ground penetrating radar designed by students at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering coordinating with engineers from CRREL.

IEEE Spectrum

Mar 12, 2013

Robot Yeti Tells You Where Not to Go in Antarctica

Researchers from Dartmouth, including professor of engineering Laura Ray and her students, came up with Yeti, a GPS-guided robot that can drag a ground-penetrating radar around to detect impending doom.

LiveScience

Mar 12, 2013

Robot Called 'Yeti' Finds Cracks in Antarctic Ice

Meet Yeti, a faithful rover of the robotic kind that sniffs out dangerous crevasses for convoys crossing the glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland—developed by a team of students led by Dartmouth engineering professor Laura Ray.

Dartmouth Medicine

Mar 11, 2013

Seed funding aims to improve prostate cancer diagnoses

Ryan Halter, assistant professor of engineering and adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Geisel School of Medicine, is working to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnoses.

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