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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

The Washington Post

Greenland ice sheet had biggest thaw since 1973 this month, scientists say

Dartmouth engineering Ph.D. student Kaitlin Keegan, who has sampled ice cores taken from Summit Station in central Greenland, said ice core samples indicate such pronounced melting at Summit and across the ice sheet has not occurred since 1889.

Jul 25, 2012

ESPN Boston

Rugby's Olympic return in sight

Dartmouth engineering major Alex Magleby ’00 is at the forefront of rugby's Olympic return..."After high school, Magleby came east to study engineering at Dartmouth and play rugby."

Jul 23, 2012

The Washington Post

South Korea outpaces the U.S. in engineering degrees

Dean Helble is quoted in this article about South Korea, where undergraduate students are five times more likely to major in engineering than their counterparts in the United States.

Jul 23, 2012

New Hampshire Public Radio

Getting By, Getting Ahead: Start-Up Entrepreneur Brings High-Tech Talent To Rural N.H.

In some ways, Professor Tillman Gerngross is the father of the Upper Valley’s biotech community. Originally from Austria, Gerngross came here in the late 1990s to be a professor of bioengineering at Dartmouth.

Jul 11, 2012

N.H. Union Leader

Dartmouth gets grant to boost power plants

Dartmouth has received a $294,072 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for a research project on strengthening steel alloys with aluminum for the next generation of gas- and coal-fired power plants.

Jul 02, 2012