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(05/04/14 9:42pm)
In my four years here, I have met many students who have attained the greatest validation of their scientific contributions: an authorship in a peer-reviewed academic publication. However, the face of academic journals is changing as traditional journal publishers have come under attack from proponents of open access, which could change the distribution of scientific knowledge as we know it.
(04/24/14 10:49pm)
When I was growing up, my favorite cartoon was “Hey Arnold!” The show focused on the titular protagonist, who lives with his grandparents in their boardinghouse, and his fourth-grade friends and the boardinghouse’s other residents. Many of the show’s characters defied common character tropes, such as Helga Pataki, the schoolyard bully who lived constantly under the shadow of her prettier and more successful older sister.
(04/16/14 10:38pm)
With prospective members of the Class of 2018 on campus for Dimensions, we are more conscious than ever of what may deter admitted students from attending Dartmouth. The College’s new AP credit policy, which will no longer allow students to receive credit toward graduation for AP or IB scores, may discourage them. According to its website, although the College will grant course credit on entrance for AP or IB examinations and offer exemptions and placement in some subject areas, the credits will not count toward the 35 required to graduate. The faculty passed this motion in November 2012, even though many other Ivy League and highly selective liberal arts institutions still accept AP or IB pre-matriculation credits for graduation. Articles in outlets ranging from the Washington Post to the Chronicle of High Education questioned whether the College made a smart decision.
(04/10/14 10:11pm)
As soon as College President Phil Hanlon’s email about the unprecedented $100 million donation reached the student body, we all asked two questions: who and why? While the pool of candidates for the former query is small enough to make an educated guess, we will probably never know for certain unless the donating family decides to reveal itself. As for the latter, I’ll take a stab: the donation is an affirmation from alumni who truly believe in this institution and have benefited from the College’s rich offerings.
(04/01/14 11:22pm)
There is one scene in “The Great Gatsby” that has stayed with me throughout my college experience. Nick, the book’s Midwestern narrator, attends a party at Jay Gatsby’s house, and finds an owl-eyed man murmuring in Gatsby’s library, amazed that all of the books are real. Gatsby wants his guests, members of the East Coast elite, to consider him an “Oxford man,” a nouveau riche who can nonchalantly exchange pleasantries with old money. However, the character of Gatsby, the reader later finds, is a façade. Throughout the novel, the mask that he had carefully crafted for himself continues to deteriorate, and his upward mobility is stymied by his own misplaced ambitions as well as the insurmountable sociocultural expectations and barriers of the Roaring Twenties.
(03/26/14 8:25pm)
The kidney is a strange organ. From a physiological point of view, the kidney is a bean-shaped collection of tissues that serves as an integral part of the excretory system. The average individual has around a gallon and a half of blood circulating through his or her body. Our two kidneys filter the blood around 400 times daily. This is made possible through the millions of microscopic nephrons — the functional unit of a kidney — that utilize a finely calibrated system of osmotic gradients that hormones such as vasopressin and aldosteronecan further modulate. All of these factors speak to the complexity of kidneys in normal physiological function. However, the current debate involving the kidney may be even more complicated than the organ itself.
(03/06/14 12:32am)
The Life Sciences Center occupies the northern end of campus, next to the Remsen and Vail buildings of the Geisel School of Medicine. Fairchild, Steele and Wilder Halls make up their own physical sciences clique. Sudikoff and Moore Halls are just off the center of campus.
(02/16/14 9:51pm)
On Feb. 6, Duane Compton, the Geisel School of Medicine’s senior associate dean for research, informed current M.D./Ph.D. candidates that the administration was placing an indefinite hold on admissions due to budgetary concerns. Applicants who had already interviewed received notice that Geisel would no longer offer seats in the incoming class. After the meeting, M.D./Ph.D. students, like Andrew Giustini, tried to speak with Geisel Dean Wiley “Chip” Souba, who had left town. Neither students nor the faculty had been consulted before the applicants were notified, and the Dean’s Office had directly overridden the will of Geisel’s faculty council, which showed unanimous support for maintaining the program in May.
(01/15/14 11:23pm)
Last December, I attended the American Society of Cell Biology’s national meeting in New Orleans. The conference was attended by thousands of scientists. It stretched out into packed conference rooms and airplane hangar-like exhibition halls, filled with rows of science posters and biotech vendors who lured visitors by hawking convention tchotchkes such as T-shirts, pens and tote bags.
(10/11/13 2:00am)
I have a confession to make to the '17s: I never ran all of the 14 laps during my freshmen bonfire.
(10/01/13 2:00am)
The Flexner Report, a 1910 study of medical education across North America, encouraged American medical schools to enact higher admission and graduation standards. For its author, Abraham Flexner, conveying knowledge of scientific advances was the primary criterion for a medical school education. He recommended the standardization of medical school research through two years each of scientific and clinical training, a formula found in many medical schools to this day. However, due to high skyrocketing costs in medical education and the aging of medical school matriculants, the medical community is challenging Flexner's educational standard.
(09/17/13 2:00am)
This week, hundreds of '17s will be filling the lecture halls of introductory science and engineering courses, many of them eager to declare majors in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM). If the national average holds true for Dartmouth students, however, come graduation, 40 percent of the initial hopefuls will have failed to follow through with their STEM majors.
(08/16/13 2:00am)
The time is ripe for Internet content artisans. Authors disenchanted by the prospect of traditional publishing can produce work in e-book format through vendors such as Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. Musicians neglected by mainstream channels can sell their work in Bandcamp. But writing novels and making music independently are relatively straightforward projects. Now, the democratization of Internet content has expanded to include the creation of bigger, more complicated projects that are supported directly by what the public wants to see and buy.
(08/09/13 2:00am)
Last week's column by Luke Decker, "Missed Opportunity" (Aug. 2) was in itself a missed opportunity to expand on the specific ways that Dartmouth could encourage professional development and constructive resume-building. Like its peer institutions, Dartmouth has its share of self-motivated students three of them were awarded Thiel Fellowships in 2013. I can personally think of others who are currently submitting their science manuscripts to respectable journals, writing op-eds on a national platform, seeking publishing contracts through literary agents and tinkering with their startups through College-specific resources like the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network.
(07/12/13 2:00am)
Newsweek was my first print magazine subscription, my training wheel for parsing through political commentary. Although I would outgrow Newsweek for the likes of The New Yorker and The Atlantic, Newsweek will occupy a special spot in my heart, especially since the print magazine of my adolescence went defunct last year.
(07/02/13 2:00am)
My sister was fortunate that our parents were willing and able to cover her living expenses. While such opportunities benefit students by padding their resumes and demonstrating work experience for future recruiters, unpaid interns face short-term consequences, such as lost wages that could be used to pay off costs like tuition. As such, taking an unpaid internship without external support is fiscally infeasible for many students, especially true given that the most sought-after positions are often located in cities with substantial living costs. Wealthier students who can apply for unpaid work without worrying about the associated expenses are placed at an immediate advantage, creating issues of self-perpetuating class privilege wherein wealthier students can gain an advantage over their peers.
(06/28/13 2:00am)
The Supreme Court has been busy for the past few weeks, and the decision with the greatest implication for the future of science was the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics. In a unanimous ruling, the Court stated that human genes may not be patented and drew a sharp distinction between DNA formed in nature and DNA synthesized in a laboratory. While the decision was a long-awaited victory, it also raised a few eyebrows due to the majority opinion's statement that "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent-eligible merely because it has been isolated, but cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring."
(06/21/13 2:00am)
From May 6 to 27, Baker-Berry Library hosted a multimedia exhibit as part of Dartmouth's celebration of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Several students from the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the Pan-Asian Council created displays so that viewers could see the wide range of experiences Asian-Americans have had on campus.
(01/08/13 4:00am)
Every Ivy League university other than Dartmouth currently has a Korean language or studies program as part of its regular curriculum. This has been the case since the early 1990s. On this matter, the College is literally decades behind its peers.
(11/12/12 4:00am)
By now, the most fervent potential Dartmouth '17s have sent in their early decision applications. Should recent trends continue, the College, as well as other Ivy League institutions, should expect to see yet another year of the most competitive applicant pool in its history.