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Fairfield Citizen

Jun 21, 2012

Fairfielders roll out a welcome for Dartmouth's Big Green Bus

"The Big Green Bus" left the campus of Dartmouth in New Hampshire Wednesday for its 8th annual summer tour of the country, planning to log about 12,000 miles and travel through 30 states.

EarthTechling

Jun 14, 2012

EV Technology the Winner at Formula Hybrid Competition

All the results are now in for the international 2012 Formula Hybrid competition, a student design and engineering challenge to create the best high performance hybrid and electric vehicles.

CBC News (Canada)

Jun 13, 2012

Giant algae blooms thriving under thinning Arctic sea ice

Visiting Professor of Engineering Donald Perovich and his colleagues discovered enormous blooms of algae growing in an area of the Arctic Ocean that they never thought could support the phytoplankton: below the sea ice.

San Francisco Chronicle

Jun 12, 2012

Tiny undersea plants may affect Arctic ocean life

Visiting Professor of Engineering Donald Perovich and his colleagues discovered a massive bloom of the microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton beneath the sea ice—a discovery that could affect the life of every seagoing creature in the Arctic.

Scientific American

Jun 11, 2012

Thinning Arctic Ice Allows Plankton Bloom

Visiting Professor of Engineering Donald Perovich participated in an expedition through the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska that found massive blooms of phytoplankton under the ice. The discovery upends the notion that the sea ice that forms in autumn ushers in a nearly lifeless season for the ocean below.

The Dartmouth

Jun 08, 2012

Graduate schools hold individual commencement exercises

Graduate programs at Tuck School of Business, Thayer School of Engineering, Geisel School of Medicine and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice will host individual graduation activities this weekend.

The Boston Globe

Jun 05, 2012

College teams compete in hybrid challenge

The brainchild of research engineer and racing enthusiast Doug Fraser, who has taught at Dartmouth for three decades, the Formula Hybrid competition has grown, with 39 teams competing in 2012, featuring entrants from around the country and the world.

Valley News

Jun 04, 2012

Report: Grad Schools Slip on Job Help

Thayer has a network of 1,100 alums through the professional networking site LinkedIn, and also uses technology to overcome geographic challenges of attracting major employers to the rural campus in Hanover.