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Associated Press via Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Federal agency awards contract for sea ice study

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement awarded Dartmouth engineering professor <a href="{page_1287}">Erland Shulson</a> a contract of nearly a half-million dollars to study how Arctic sea ice fractures, breaks and flows in open waters.

Sep 23, 2011

Boston Business Journal

Mascoma files for $100M IPO

Professor Lee Lynd's renewable fuels company, Mascoma Corp., has announced plans for an initial public offering valued at up to $100 million.

Sep 20, 2011

TribLocal

New Trier grads find themselves competitors for NBC reality show

Engineering major Will Hart '12 will be on the NBC talent show contest "The Sing-Off," which starts a new season Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. on NBC. Hart’s Dartmouth Aires is among the 16 a cappella groups vying for a $100,000 Sony Music recording contract.

Sep 14, 2011

Science Daily

Running Backs Take Hardest Hits to the Head, Linemen Take the Most, U.S. College Football Study Find

A new study documents the nature of head blows by player position. Captured data allowed the team of researchers from Brown, Dartmouth, Virginia Tech, and sensor-maker and Dartmouth spin-off Simbex to discern how hard the hit was, how often each player was hit, and where on the helmet they were hit.

Sep 08, 2011

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine

The Power of One

After building a homemade windmill to power his Malawi family’s home, William Kamkwamba ’14 brings a new kind of energy to campus.

Sep 08, 2011

The Daily Herald

Check This Out: "From Idea to Success"

Dartmouth's Entrepreneurial Network has a new book that anyone hoping to start his or her own business should read: From Idea to Success: The Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network's Guide for Start-Ups, by Gregg Fairbrothers and Tessa Winter; recommended by Herald business editor Mike Benbow.

Aug 18, 2011

Nano Patents and Innovations

Single, Key Gene Discovery Could Streamline Production Of Biofuels

The team's results were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as "Mutant alcohol dehydrogenase leads to improved ethanol tolerance in Clostridium thermocellum." The team includes Professor Lee Lynd.

Aug 17, 2011

Scientific American

Harnessing Robots to Study Inaccessible Arctic

New robots—including Professor Laura Ray's "Yeti" and "Cool Robot"— undergoing field tests could expand scientists' access to polar regions and improve understanding of climate change.

Aug 17, 2011