Zhishan "Coco" Chu '21 has been awarded the Biology Department's Frances L. Town Prize. The faculty selected Coco based on her academic excellence in her biology coursework. Congratulations Coco!
The Francis L. Town Scientific Prize
Each department of scientific study at Dartmouth awards the Town Prize to one meritorious and deserving student at the end of the sophomore year. This prize was established by the bequest of Francis L. Town, a member of the...
[more]Professor Caitlin Hicks Pries has received the Biogeosciences Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award from the European Geosciences Union. The awards from the EGU honors scientists "for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences."*
Congratulations, Caitlin!
To read the EGU news release, please go to this link: ...
[more]Congratulations to Biology majors Emma Esterman '20 and Courtney Stump '20 on their induction into Dartmouth's Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa! Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa inductees must have one of the top twenty cummulative grade point averages after completing eight terms of study at Dartmouth.
To read the Dartmouth News article about the awards please go to the following link: https://...
[more]Professor Kathy Cottingham has been named editor-in-chief of the Ecological Society of America's journal, Ecology. The journal will celebrate its 100th year next year. Kudos to Professor Cottingham on this prestigious appointment!
Emma Esterman '20 has been named a Goldwater Scholar for the 2019-2020 academic year. Emma is a biology major who is interested in computational biology and genetics. She is an undergraduate researcher in Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva's lab and she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in biological sciences after graduating from Dartmouth.
Congratulations, Emma!
Professor Caitlin Pries is this year’s recipient of the S.A. Wilde Early Career Achievement Award. The Soil Science Society of America gives this award in recognition of “significant accomplishment in forest, range, or wildland soil research by an individual up to seven years post completion of a terminal degree program.”*
To learn more about Professor Pries' work, please visit her lab web page: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/...
[more]Emma Esterman '20 is the recipient of this year's The Francis L. Town Scientific Prize in Biology. Emma was awarded the Town price for academic excellence in her biology coursework and for her research endeavors in the laboratory of Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva.
Emma is a Rufus Choate Scholar and a Phi Beta Kappa Sophomore Prize recipient. In addition to her outstanding grade point average, Emma has received...
[more]Congratulations to Biology majors Connor Bodarchuk '19, Anant Mishra '19, Arvind Suresh '19 and Elizabeth Terman '19 on their induction into Dartmouth's Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa! Dartmouth Phi Beta Kappa inductees must have one of the top twenty cummulative grade point averages after completing eight terms of study at Dartmouth.
Biology majors, Emma Esterman '20 and Armin Tavakkoli '20 received the Phi Beta Kappa Sophmore Prize. The Sophomore Prize recognizes students with the...
[more]Ectomycorrhiza (ECM) fungi grow on the surfaces of plant roots and develop a symbiotic with the plants that host them. Corinne Vietorisz '19 is studying the role of the dominant tree species and soil type on ECM fungi. She is particularly interested on the impact of ash trees because of the expected die-off of ash trees from Emerald Ash Borer. She is working with Prof. Matt Ayres and EEES graduate student Ashley Lang on her studies.
To read Corinne's article about her work this...
[more]Professor Caitlin Hicks Pries' lab studies the terrestrial carbon cycle and the effects of a warming climate on that cycle. Organic material is the source of carbon in soils. As this material is decomposed by microbes, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. A warming climate can increase the activity of the soil-dwelling microbes...
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