Category Archives: Spring 2008 – 10th Anniversary Edition
Research: Persistent Explosives Present a Problem
Introduction During winter and spring of 2008 I had the opportunity to participate in the Women in Science Project (WISP) internship program for first-year students. As an intern in the Biochemical Sciences branch at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), I conducted research in the laboratory of Dave … Continue reading
Battle of the Sexes
In the summer of 1925, Russian geneticist Sergey Gershenson collected 19 female fruit flies of the species Drosophila obscura from a forest near Moscow. He brought the captured flies back to his laboratory and mated them with normal males to study their offspring. By the second generation of matings, Gershenson … Continue reading
Remembering Karen Wetterhahn
On June 8, 1997, the Dartmouth community suffered a tragic loss: the death of Karen Wetterhahn, a beloved professor. A specialist in metal toxicology, Wetterhahn had spent over 20 years in the Chemistry Department elucidating the mechanisms of chromium and nickel metabolism in cells. In August of 1996, while following … Continue reading
The Future of Science at Dartmouth and Around the World
As the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science celebrates its tenth year, scientists from all over the world continue to chip away at the unknown. Slowly but surely, we are learning more about the myriad components that comprise our universe, from the very small to the very large, and from the … Continue reading