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Wired

Can the Ice Wall in Game of Thrones Survive Science?

Dartmouth engineering professor Mary Albert, Executive Director of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office, explains why the large ice wall in HBO&#39;s "Game of Thrones" would not exist in real life.</p>

Mar 28, 2013

The Washington Post

High-tech 'Yeti' may revolutionize exploration near North and South poles

Professor Laura Ray&#39;s Yeti is a self-guided polar robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to map what lies beneath the ice &mdash; often, a crevasse waiting to claim lives and expensive equipment.</p>

Mar 12, 2013

Gizmodo

Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers Past Concealed Crevasses

Tractor crews are being led by the Yeti, a four-wheel drive rover equipped with ground penetrating radar designed by students at Dartmouth&#39;s Thayer School of Engineering coordinating with engineers from CRREL.

Mar 12, 2013

IEEE Spectrum

Robot Yeti Tells You Where Not to Go in Antarctica

Researchers from Dartmouth, including professor of engineering Laura Ray and her students, came up with Yeti, a GPS-guided robot that can drag a ground-penetrating radar around to detect impending doom.

Mar 12, 2013

LiveScience

Robot Called 'Yeti' Finds Cracks in Antarctic Ice

Meet Yeti, a faithful rover of the robotic kind that sniffs out dangerous crevasses for convoys crossing the glaciers of Antarctica and Greenland&mdash;developed by a team of students led by Dartmouth engineering professor Laura Ray.

Mar 12, 2013

Dartmouth Medicine

Seed funding aims to improve prostate cancer diagnoses

Ryan Halter, assistant professor of engineering and adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Geisel School of Medicine, is working to improve the accuracy of prostate cancer diagnoses.</p>

Mar 11, 2013

Slate

Yeti Robot Finds Deadly Antarctic Crevasses So We Don't Have To

Meet the Yeti. This four-wheel-drive rover drags a ground-penetrating radar arm capable of logging information that tells scientists what lies below.</p>

Mar 06, 2013

NHPR

Who Needs Batteries? Seacoast Firm Stores Energy With Air

NHPR interviews the VP of energy storage company SustainX, founded in 2007 by Professor Charles Hutchinson and engineering students Dax Kepshire Th&#39;06, &#39;09, Ben Bollinger &#39;04 Th&#39;04, &#39;08, and Troy McBride Th&#39;01.</p>

Mar 04, 2013

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