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Sound Matters: Sex And Death In The Rain Forest. National Public Radio interviewed Prof. Hannah ter Hofstede, Dr. Laurel Symes and Dr. Sharon Martinson about their research on the sounds of the rain forest.
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Undergraduate researcher, Aldo Arellano '17, spent last summer studing the ecology of Lake Mývatn in Iceland. The research project in Iceland took an interdisciplinary approach to understanding midge flies and their influences on food webs.
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Prof. Sharon Bickel's lab has demonstrated that oxidative damage causes a premature loss of sister chromatid cohesion and an increase in chromosome segregation errors in Drosophila oocytes during meiosis.
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Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program Ph.D candidate, Youjun Wu has been selected to be a John H. Copenhaver, Jr. and William H. Thomas, MD 1952 Fellow.
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Biology Majors Marielle Brady ’17, Hae-Lin Cho ’17 and Abiah Pritchard ’17 have been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
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Dr. Laurel Symes, Neukom Fellow, is featured in the Nature article, Research Protocols: A forest of hypotheses.
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Prof. Lee Witters has received the Elizabeth Howland Hand-Otis Norton Pierce Award for a Faculty Member Who Is an Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduates.
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Prof. Natasha Grotz received the Dean of Faculty Teaching Award " in recognition for outstanding contributions to Dartmouth."
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Professor Lee Witters has been honored for his years of service as an educator and mentor to pre-health students with the creation of the Lee A. Witters Award for Outstanding Teaching and Social Justice.
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