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Dartmouth Associate Professor of Biological Sciences is being honored by the American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) with its Women in Cell Biology Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research. ASCB is a network of about 9,000 cell biologists in more than 62 countries. “It’s a really neat award,” Gladfelter says…. Read more“Dartmouth’s Gladfelter Honored by Cell Biology Association”

Lahey, however, questions the success of the vaccine. There are three reasons, he says, why “we cannot know if the vaccine really worked, or how well. Those reasons are the lack of placebo comparison, the way the investigators diagnosed vaccine failure, and the possibility of statistical flukes.” Lahey is an… Read more“New Ebola Vaccine May Be Too Good to Be True (The Conversation)”

Forbes “The idea is that the best colleges are the ones that produce successful people who make enough money during their careers to be charitable, and feel compelled to give back to their alma mater” write Forbes columnists Matt Schifrin and Liyan Chen. “Once again this year two of the… Read more“Top 50 ROI Colleges: 2015 Grateful Grads Index (‘Forbes’)”

A New Hampshire start-up will win $100,000 in funding from America Online co-founder Steve Case, writes the website Financial Buzz. Case plans to visit Dartmouth in October and hear pitches from local businesses during an event organized by Dartmouth’s Jamie Coughlin, according to the website. “Case will visit Hanover and… Read more“AOL Co-Founder Case to Invest in Start-Up (Financial Buzz)”

“In July 2015, the at Dartmouth College announced a ‘Turing test in creativity,’ the first short story prize for algorithms,” writes The Guardian. “Just as science fiction is always and inevitably a critique of the contemporary, so the question of machine intelligence and literature is also a question of human… Read more“Robots That Write Fiction? (‘The Guardian’)”

, published by the Geisel School of Medicine. When people think of newborns admitted to neonatal intensive care units—known as NICUs—they often think of an infant who is extremely ill and underweight. However, a new study conducted by researchers and Wade Harrison, who is also a fourth-year medical student at… Read more“Study: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Admissions on the Rise”

In a story about Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie’s recent campaign stop in New Hampshire, the Valley News turns to for his thoughts on the New Jersey governor’s entitlement reform policies. Christie’s proposed reforms, the article notes, include increasing the Social Security age and limiting entitlement benefits for retirees. Christie’s… Read more“Christie Discusses Policies in Newport Visit (‘Valley News’)”

Unity Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy.

In what Washington Post reviewer Steven Moore calls a “fluid, elegant rendition” of the 1,000-year-old The Tale of Genji, goes back and forth between footnotes and explanations within the text. “Purists will wish he did more of the latter and less (or none) of the former, for if style rather… Read more“New Translation of ‘Tale of Genji’ (‘The Washington Post’)”

“For the last few years, people have been saying wages are going to take off. And of course, they haven’t,” says the in an American workers’ wages.