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DNA For Sale?

By Eliza Jane Schaeffer | January 17, 2018

You can learn a lot from a cup of spit and $200. You can learn the precise breakdown of your racial heritage, how your hair curls, individualized weight loss strategies, whether you can smell asparagus in your pee, whether you might be susceptible to breast cancer or Alzheimer’s ... the list of potential knowledge goes on.

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Courses partner with local organizations

By Alex Fredman | January 12, 2018

For the past seven years, environmental studies professor Terry Osborne has taught many of his classes with an emphasis on what he calls “community-based learning” — getting his students out of the classroom and working on projects for nonprofit organizations in the Upper Valley community to apply their knowledge in practice. “What I have learned from the past is that it absolutely amplifies and intensifies learning of the students,” Osborne said. When the Social Impact Practicum initiative kicked off in the winter of 2017, Osborne’s classes fit right in with the goals of the program.

A 'Pesca' volunteer takes the blood pressure of one of the Jornada participants while his grandson watches during the May 2017 Jornada in El Rosario, Honduras.
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Researchers investigate cancer in Honduras

By Gigi Grigorian | January 11, 2018

Since 2011, researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have been conducting projects in Honduras that help citizens who lack medical care, in addition to furthering academic understanding of cancer there.

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Bump: Jamie Ma '20, flair on

By Annie Farrell | January 10, 2018

Combining her love for fashion and social media, Jamie Ma ’20 created a project last fall with a stated mission to explore “the personal and individual styles of the Dartmouth community.” Her Instagram page @dartmouthflair has since attracted over 800 followers and counting. Ma decided to model @dartmouthflair after a similar Instagram page that started at the boarding school she attended for high school.

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Math and Its Divisions

By Jacob Maguire | January 10, 2018

At Dartmouth College, which offers more than 60 majors and numerous other minors, the mathematics department is largely an enigma for the hundreds of social science and humanities students who fulfill their single QDS distributive requirement and move on.

Peter Wilson, the Country Program Coordinator for the US African Development Foundation, met with students on the trip. 
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Public policy students take winterim trip to Liberia

By Maria Harrast | January 9, 2018

Over winter interim, 12 Dartmouth students traveled to Monrovia, Liberia, where they witnessed a historic Supreme Court ruling that preceded a runoff presidential election, marking Liberia’s first democratic, peaceful handover of power since 1944. “The election was actually supposed to be finished by the time we got to Liberia, but it was contested, so it ended up going through the Supreme Court.

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