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April 3, 2026
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New Dartmouth sports analytics club discusses sports statistics

By Vignesh Chockalingam | April 13, 2017

Last Monday, Andrew Wolff ’18 and Josh Ufland ’18 led the inaugural meeting of Dartmouth Sports Analytics, a recently-formed club focused on the intersection of sports and statistics. The club was first conceived in the fall of 2015 under the leadership of Richard Shen ’17, who developed an interest in sports analytics after taking a “Sports Analytics” class taught by government professor Michael Herron and College President Phil Hanlon.

The introduction of house communities last fall does not seem to have affected interest in Living Learning Communities, which make up roughly 10 percent of on-campus housing.
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Living Learning Communities see high interest

By Paulomi Rao | April 11, 2017

Despite the recent introduction of house communities at the College, Living Learning Communities, another residential housing option for undergraduates, saw approximately the same number of applications this year as in previous years according to Katharina Daub, associate director of residential education for Living Learning Programs and academic initiatives.

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Media fellows partner with professors

By Anthony Robles | April 11, 2017

This past winter, the College initiated a media fellows program designed to facilitate classroom projects that will allow fellows to develop media integral to the course and serve as technical advisors. The program’s first fellow, Jessica Fedin ’17, worked with the Latin I course taught by classics postdoctoral fellow Suzanne Lye last winter.

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Eric Lemieux wins Special Olympics medal

By Mika Jehoon Lee | April 7, 2017

When Dartmouth Dining Services employee Eric Lemieux was not at work last winter, he trained six days a week to prepare for three different snowshoeing events in the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria.

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Chemistry lab develops 3D-printed smart material

By Vignesh Chockalingam | April 7, 2017

Chemistry professor Chenfeng Ke’s lab, the Ke Functional Materials Group, recently created a 3D-printed smart material that can support up to 15 times its own weight. At the head of the project are Ke and first-year graduate students, Qianming Lin and Hao-yi Wang.

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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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