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Aug 17, 2011

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.

Scientific American

Aug 17, 2011

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.

Las Vegas Sun

Aug 17, 2011

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.

The New York Times

Aug 04, 2011

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.

Nature Materials

Jul 29, 2011

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.

Mass High Tech

Jul 29, 2011

New Gerngross startup Arsanis raises $9.6M

Biotech startup Arsanis Inc.—another creation of Tillman Gerngross and Errik Anderson—has raised $9.6 million in a new round of funding, according to federal documents.

Windpower Engineering

Jul 29, 2011

Dartmouth students study wind in remote African areas

A group of Dartmouth engineering students are using a Nomad 2 Wind Data Logger the company donated to study wind in a remote region of Tanzania.

Xconomy

Jul 29, 2011

Biotech Vet Gerngross Dishes Out More Details On Latest VC-Backed Startup Arsanis

Arsanis, co-founded late last year by successful biotech entrepreneur Tillman Gerngross, is using the antibody discovery technology from another of Gerngross's startups, Lebanon, NH-based Adimab, to find antibody drugs that might provide a new alternative to antibiotics.

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