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The Dartmouth

Student groups take summer service trips

The Big Green Bus and Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering promoted both sustainability and philanthropic engineering projects through entirely student-led trips this summer.

Sep 12, 2012

Mass High Tech

SustainX gets 11 new patents for energy storage

SustainX Inc.—founded by Professor Charles Hutchinson and engineering students Dax Kepshire Th'06, '09, Ben Bollinger '04 Th'04, '08, and Troy McBride Th'01—announced Thursday that it has been issued 11 patents related to its constant-temperature compressed air technology.

Sep 07, 2012

International Innovation

"Ancient Air" & "Core Science"

Two articles in International Innovation feature engineering professor Mary Albert, Th ’83, and her polar ice sheet research team's study of “firn,” a term for Arctic snow that serves as “an archive of past atmospheric composition, and the relationships between the physical structure of the firn and gas trapping process.”

Aug 23, 2012

Dartmouth Now

Upstart Announces a New Way to Invest In a Recent College Grad

The Boston Globe (and others) reports that former Google executive Dave Girouard ’88, Thayer ’89, has founded a new Silicon Valley company that offers an unusual investment opportunity.

Aug 10, 2012

BusinessNH Magazine

Stretch Students' Limits

Dean Joseph Helble authored this article about the importance of educating students to think outside of their disciplinary boundaries.

Aug 09, 2012

Ars Technica

Brave New World—medical devices use biometrics to prevent hack attacks

Computer scientists—including engineering professor Ryan Halter—have proposed a wearable healthcare device that uses unique physiological signatures in a patient's heart rate or other physiological response to prevent tampering by malicious hackers.

Aug 08, 2012

Eagle-Tribune

Furey's college coach says best is yet to come

Carl Wallin isn’t surprised that Sean Furey '04, Th '05, '06 will be throwing the javelin today at the Olympic Games. “To be honest, I always knew he’d be there,” said Wallin, who retired in 2009 after 40 years as Dartmouth’s head coach.

Aug 08, 2012

The Washington Post

An inside look at Greenland's melting surface ice

Engineering Ph.D. candidate Kaitlin Keegan and Professor Mary Albert are featured in this article about Greenland’s big mid-July “melt” that gave polar scientists a chance to study a rare warming event as it was happening.

Aug 06, 2012