Read article – Lauren Edgar ’07 is one of 10 people NASA selected to join its 2025 astronaut candidate class. While at Dartmouth, Edger took a class called “Life on Mars?” with Mukul Sharma, a professor of earth sciences, and former astronaut Jay Buckey, now a professor of medicine and director of Dartmouth’s Space Medicine Innovations Lab. “She always wanted to be an astronaut and so her dream and hard work have borne fruit,” Sharma said. “I remember making a deal with her—when she brings Mars samples back, I will have the first dibs!”
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These 99 ‘Lab Hacks’ Will Make Your Scientific Work Easier — Nature
Read article – Katherine Bradley D ’17 MED ’25, contributes to a list of top advice for scientists. “Instead of purchasing poster tubes for conferences, look for a local poster shop, which can often give you poster shipping tubes for free if they have extra,” Bradley said.
NIH Grants Dartmouth $12M for Implementation Science —Valley News
Read article – Jeremiah Brown, a professor of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about the five-year, $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health awarded to the Geisel School of Medicine to study implementation science. “Implementation science helps to bridge that gap between what we know we should be doing to doing what we should be doing,” Brown said.
AI Therapy: How It Works, Benefits, and Limitations — Forbes
Read article – Saeed Hassanpour, associate professor of epidemiology and biomedical data science and founding director of the Center for Precision Health and Artificial Intelligence, is quoted in a story about how AI chatbots work. They are “trained on a huge amount of data on the internet, and combining some other techniques, it can summarize and capture a lot of knowledge and information about the world and how humans interact and operate,” Hassanpour said.
Dartmouth’s play2Prevent Lab and Nonprofit Proof Positive Collaborate to Design Mental Health Games for Autistic Youth
The play2PREVENT Lab at the Geisel School of Medicine has received a grant from Proof Positive, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting the well-being of the autism community, to fund a two-year initiative to create and evaluate digital health games that help autistic youth build emotional resilience, social confidence, and positive coping strategies.
MD Class of ’29 White Coat Livestream
The White Coat Ceremony for the Geisel MD Class of 2029 will be held on Friday, September 26 at 3:00 PM. You can watch our live broadcast of the event here or on our YouTube channel.
Here’s How Many Granite Staters May Die Due to Congress’ Medicaid Cuts — New Hampshire Bulletin
Read article – An opinion piece by Thomas Lane D ’24 and Don Kollisch, MD, an associate professor of medicine and of community and family medicine, about the dire consequences of Congress’ Medicaid cuts in the state. “New Hampshire can expect to see an extra avoidable death slightly more often than once a week, as well as thousands of other residents cut off from necessary care and medications. Over 5,000 may join the already swollen ranks of those in medical debt,” they write.
Medical Students Share Research Projects at Grand Rounds
During the recent Medical Student Grand Rounds at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), three Geisel students shared their research projects ranging from, a comparative review of laparoscopic and robotic paraesophageal hernia repair, the long-term financial implications of pursuing fellowships after general surgery training, and challenges and innovation in rural heart failure care.
If You Use AI For Therapy, Here Are 5 Things Experts Recommend — The Washington Post
Read article – Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is quoted in an article about best practices for using AI therapy chatbots that highlights the Therabot software developed at Dartmouth. “I wouldn’t tell somebody necessarily to stop using it if they feel like it’s working for them, but I tell them you still have to proceed with caution,” Heinz said.
A Robot Is Helping Dartmouth Doctors Perform Heart Surgery — The Boston Globe
Read article – Features an interview with Henry J. Tannous, an associate professor of surgery, about Dartmouth Health’s new $2.5 million robot that assists with mitral valve surgery. “It’s a very sophisticated tool that we use in the operating room. It uses a lot of computing, 3D imaging, and GPS localization. It integrates all that to allow us to see better,” Tannous said.