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CNET

Scientists want to power pacemakers with energy from your heart

Researchers at Dartmouth are working on a thin polymer applied to existing pacemakers that could harvest the heart's mechanical energy to charge the battery.

Apr 25, 2019

Engadget

Self-charging pacemakers are powered by patients' heartbeats

Colleagues at Thayer and UT Health San Antonio have invented a dime-sized device that turns the kinetic energy of the heart into electricity that could power a range of implantable devices.

Apr 25, 2019

Xconomy

Alector IPO Banks $176M to Test Alzheimer's Drugs in Clinical Trials

Professor Tillman Gerngross's company, Alector, which offers an immunotherapy approach to Alzheimer’s disease, has raised approximately $176 million in an initial public offering.

Apr 15, 2019

QUARTZ

In Greenland and Antarctica, supposedly "safe" ice is melting alarmingly fast

Ninety-seven percent of the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet melted in 2012, a level of ice melt the island hasn’t seen since 1889, according to Kaitlin Keegan, a Dartmouth engineering research associate who studies arctic ice.

Jan 31, 2019

The Innovator

The Platform Economy

Experts, including Dartmouth engineering professor Geoff Parker, say that companies have the chance to create platforms of their own, jointly create platforms, or leverage other platforms to their advantage.

Jan 31, 2019

The Dartmouth

Arctic Report Card notes temperature increase

With the help of two Dartmouth professors, NOAA’s 2018 Arctic Report Card described this year as the second-warmest year in the Arctic since 1900.

Jan 31, 2019

WOMEN 2.0

This Tech Teacher of the Year Wants To Stomp Out Math Phobia and Level the Playing Field

Dartmouth engineering professor Petra Bonfert-Taylor has developed several programs to make engineering and math accessible.

Jan 31, 2019

The Dartmouth

Construction begins on the west end of campus

Gound clearing has begun as the College prepares for the construction of a new building that will soon house both the computer science dept and Thayer School of Engineering.

Jan 31, 2019

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