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The Dartmouth
May 9, 2026
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Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch
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History professor wins Burkhardt Fellowship

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Two years from now, history professor Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch will be hundreds of miles from Hanover in Chicago, Illinois, working on her research on Ghana’s transnational alliances formed in the 1950s and 1960s at Northwestern University.




Professor Katherine Mirica and her team developed this device to detect gases in the surrounding air. 
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Chemistry lab develops electronic toxic gas sensor

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Using objects such as yellow wooden pencils and Shrinky Dinks, a child’s plastic toy that shrinks in size after being baked in an oven, chemistry professor Katherine Mirica and her team are developing a unique approach to build a portable and efficient electronic “nose,” a device to help detect toxic gases and environmental pollutants in the air and human bodies. An expert on nanomaterials, Mirica found in previous work that there was no single technology available to detect and monitor the chemical identity of gases harmful to the environment or humans.



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Family of bears reemerges around town and campus

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A sleuth of bears has stumbled back into the Hanover area having just emerged from hibernation. The changing of the seasons has brought an increased number of bear sightings near School Street as a sow and her cubs, now old enough to be considered yearlings, have been spotted multiple times by local residents in and around the Hanover area.







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College expresses support for transgender students

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The College released a statement on Tuesday, March 21 expressing support for transgender and gender-nonconforming community members in response to President Donald Trump’s administration rescinding protections for transgender students. In the press release, the College stated that “everyone is welcome to use bathrooms and changing rooms that best align with their gender identity.” All existing services and programs for transgender students and employees are still in place, including gender-inclusive facilities, health care coverage, the ability to change their name and gender marker and accordance with the NCAA’s inclusion of transgender student-athletes policy.




The Morton Hall fire last fall, combined with high enrollment, means some leave-term students on campus for the spring do not have housing.
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Students left without spring leave-term housing

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Around 56 on-campus leave-term students, who remain in Hanover to work or do research but are not enrolled as students, will be without spring term housing due to high enrollment and the Morton Hall fire last fall, according to director of undergraduate housing Rachael Class-Giguere.


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Greek councils elect new leadership

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The Greek Leadership Council announced its new executive council members on Feb. 13. The Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council released their lists of new officers in early March.