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Thayer engineers participate in NASA snow satellite project

By Frances Cohen | April 6, 2017

Three Thayer School of Engineering members, professors Zoe Courville Th’08 and Christopher Polashenski ’07 Th’11 and engineering postdoctoral student Nicholas Wright have been collecting data for SnowEx, a NASA project that is undertaking the preliminary stages of developing a satellite that measures the depth and water content of snow. According to Courville, current remote snow measurement technology is able to measure the two-dimensional extent of a snowpack but not its depth.

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Science Day brings students to campus

By Mika Jehoon Lee | April 4, 2017

Students from local schools with an interest in science read weather maps, planted seedlings and examined sheep brain specimens at the fifth annual Science Day held this past Saturday, April 1 at various labs on campus.

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CPD hosts first spring career fair

By Frances Cohen | April 4, 2017

With students starting to think about their career paths for this coming summer and the terms to follow, the Center for Professional Development will host its first spring employer connections fair today from noon to 4 p.m.

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History professor wins Burkhardt Fellowship

By Sonia Qin | March 31, 2017

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.

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Geisel School of Medicine rises in U.S. News rankings

By Peter Charalambous | March 30, 2017

The Geisel School of Medicine improved its ranking in the recently released 2018 U.S. News and World Report’s list of the “Best Medical Schools.” The rankings, which were released on March 14, placed Geisel as 27th in primary care and 35th in research, an increase from last year’s rankings of 45th and 40th, respectively. In an email, interim dean of Geisel Duane Compton called this year’s rankings “gratifying.” The 2018 rankings mark an improvement for Geisel, which has dipped in rankings since 2013, when it peaked at 31st in research.

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Anthropology trip unearths hominid fossil

By Sunpreet Singh | March 30, 2017

As a child, Keira Byno ’19 always had an eye for finding shark teeth on the beach. However, she had not expected to find a two million-year-old fossil while excavating in the Malapa Fossil Site within the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage Site northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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

By Paulomi Rao | March 30, 2017

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

By Anthony Robles | March 28, 2017

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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