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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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