{"id":10900,"date":"2018-11-15T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=10900"},"modified":"2018-11-15T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:03:49","slug":"dartmouth-undergrads-learn-by-doing-in-geisel-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2018\/dartmouth-undergrads-learn-by-doing-in-geisel-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dartmouth Undergrads Learn by Doing in Geisel Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTeaching and research go hand in hand,\u201d according to Duane Compton, PhD, dean of the Geisel School of Medicine. \u201cOne of the most powerful educational experiences for any student is to learn the ins and outs of pursuing a question for which no one else in the world knows the answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

For hundreds of Dartmouth College undergraduates, that hands-on experience happens in Geisel School of Medicine labs. For example, this fall 109 undergraduates are working and learning in labs at Geisel\u2019s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Endowing and supporting areas of research excellence is a priority within Geisel\u2019s Interaction<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>campaign, which is part of Dartmouth\u2019s campaign, The Call to Lead<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n<\/iframe><\/span><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proximity of the medical school to the college actually really helps the development of my personal career goals and the career goals of other pre-meds,\u201d said Yichen Zhang, a 2017 graduate of Dartmouth College who is now a medical student at Harvard. Zhang conducted research in two biomedical labs while at Dartmouth and led the Cancer Scholars Program, which provides a cohort of 30 competitively selected undergraduates with a year-long series of small-group sessions and shadowing and mentoring opportunities in oncology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur location is an asset for students and faculty,\u201d said Compton. \u201cWe're located adjacent to Arts & Sciences, Thayer, and Tuck, which makes collaborations among faculty easy and efficient.\u201d That ease of collaboration is felt by current students and alumni, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I wanted to do research but I wasn't sure,\u201d recalled Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD D \u201987, MED \u201991, who majored in religion while completing her pre-medical coursework. \u201cThere was an opportunity to do ten hours a week in one of the labs at Dartmouth, and I ended up in a leukemia lab, which was interesting because fast-forward to my career in cancer now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayes-Jordan is now chief of pediatric surgery at the University of North Carolina and a pioneer in studying and treating a rare form of cancer in children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most unique things about Dartmouth is that you do have a very small liberal arts college and at the same time have access to these world-class research opportunities,\u201d said Diane Gilbert-Diamond D \u201998, associate professor of epidemiology at Geisel. Working in a medical school lab as an undergraduate allowed Gilbert-Diamond to build confidence in herself as someone \u201ccapable of doing research,\u201d she recalled. \u201cNow as a professor I have the chance to give those opportunities to undergrads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeisel faculty take pride in working with learners at all stages,\u201d said Compton. \u201cAnd, as a result, when those learners go out into the world, they are much better prepared to pursue their dreams and tackle complex problems in any discipline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>VIDEO CREDIT: Dartmouth Media Production Group and Sarah Sentman.<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Sarah completed a video internship in 2018 in the Office of Development at Geisel and is a film student at Emerson College in Boston.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, hundreds of Dartmouth undergraduates learn the ins and outs of research with Geisel faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6,1,8,7],"tags":[17,894,460,108,328,517,320],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-multimedia","category-news","category-research","category-video","tag-alumni-2","tag-campaign","tag-dartmouth-undergraduate","tag-diane-gilbert-diamond","tag-duane-compton","tag-education","tag-research-2","author-13"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/gilbert-diamond_diane_urs-nc1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-2PO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10903,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions\/10903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}