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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

Las Vegas Sun

Big Green Bus tour highlights environmental awareness

Over the past six weeks, 13 students from Dartmouth College have been driving across the country in a former Greyhound bus.

Aug 17, 2011

The New York Times

Polar Researchers Harness Robots That Thrive in the Midnight Sun

Professor Laura Ray's battery-powered Yeti and its close relative—a solar-powered version called Cool Robot—could one day expand scientists' access to Earth's poles and enhance their ability to study climate change.

Aug 04, 2011

Nature Materials

Material witness: Virtuosi's choice

Ulrike Wegst shows how the acoustical properties that determine a wood's suitability for a type of instrument – a xylophone bar, say, or a violin's soundboard or a clarinet body – can be classified according to just a few parameters, such as the speed of sound, the density, and the loss coefficient that describes damping.

Jul 29, 2011