By covering large swaths of land with netting, making lizards jog on treadmills and turning six Caribbean islands into Darwinian laboratories, evolutionary biologists Ryan Calsbeek and Robert Cox of Dartmouth College have made important discover
Thirteen Dartmouth alumni and three current graduate students recently received 2010 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Two Dartmouth researchers are part of a new research endeavor funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on security and privacy in healthcare.
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Ryan Calsbeek (left) and Bob Cox (photo by Joseph Mehling '69)
A Dartmouth Medical School study found that among those whose parents let their kids watch R-rated movies "all the time," almost a quarter had tried a drink without their parents' knowledge.
A review authored by Drs. H. Gilbert Welch and William Black suggests that doctors need to address the problem of overdiagnosis in cancer care—the detection and possible treatment of tumors that may never cause symptoms or lead to death.
In an effort to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in K-12, the National Science Foundation has awarded Dartmouth College a $2.5 million grant to bring together graduate students with middle school teachers.
Host Jane Lindholm talks to Dartmouth physicist Marcelo Gleiser about his new book A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Cosmos.