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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.

Slate

Mar 06, 2013

Yeti Robot Finds Deadly Antarctic Crevasses So We Don't Have To

Meet the Yeti. This four-wheel-drive rover drags a ground-penetrating radar arm capable of logging information that tells scientists what lies below.

NHPR

Mar 04, 2013

Who Needs Batteries? Seacoast Firm Stores Energy With Air

NHPR interviews the VP of energy storage company SustainX, founded in 2007 by Professor Charles Hutchinson and engineering students Dax Kepshire Th'06, '09, Ben Bollinger '04 Th'04, '08, and Troy McBride Th'01.

Wired Science

Mar 01, 2013

How a Robot Is Changing the Game of Antarctic Science

Dartmouth engineering professor Laura Ray's Antarctic work could preview a new era in the relationship between human scientists and robotic field assistants.

Medical Physics Web

Feb 25, 2013

Cerenkov technique eyes linac QA

Summary of study published in Physics in Medicine and Biology led by engineering PhD candidate Adam Glaser showing 'a fast and flexible way to profile the imparted dose from an X-ray photon linac beam in two dimensions.'

The Dartmouth

Feb 22, 2013

Panelists discuss hopes for Haiti's development

Engineering major Yves-Marie Duperval '14, who attended three months of classes at an engineering school in Haiti, said he felt lucky to receive an education because many Haitian children do not have the same opportunity.

BBC World Service - The Forum

Feb 18, 2013

Ice

"Ice," with Danish glaciologist Poul Christoffersen; American engineer Mary Albert who studies ancient snow cores for crucial past climate clues; and Camille Seaman, a Native American artist whose photos of polar icebergs are 'portraits of individuals'.

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