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Why should STEM Students Care about The Liberal Arts at All?

Jim Heller ’28 In Dartmouth College’s Blobby (Baker Library lobby), the “Harold Rugg History Room,” exists at the end of the West Hall; this room contains a mini-exhibit…

Trusting statistics in medicine

On Friday, January 15, Dr. Jessica Lasky-Su explained the mystery of medical statistics to a full auditorium for this week’s Charles C. Jones Seminar. Lasky-Su is currently serving…

Faculty candidate presents molecular basis for autism

On Monday, January 11, 2016, faculty candidate Jason Yi, Ph.D., presented his findings, published in Cell, on a molecular basis for autism (1, 2). Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)…

Reverse engineering supernovae

On September 29th, Dan Milisavljevic gave a talk titled Reverse Engineering Supernovae. Milisavljevic got his PhD in astronomy in 2011. He then went on to work at the…

Extraordinary altruism: the inverse of psychopathy?

On September 25, Abigail Marsh, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, gave a lecture on the neurological bases of “empathy on a sliding scale,” which ranges from…