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Bump: Valentina Garcia-Gonzalez '19, a journey

By Jacob Maguire | January 17, 2018

While many students in Hanover may feel far removed from the current immigration debate occurring across America, seeing only an occasional social media post or a sporadic snippet from CNN in King Arthur Flour, for Valentina Garcia-Gonzalez ’19, these Senate floor speeches and presidential tweets carry significant weight.

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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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