The DUJS Fall 2011 Issue has been released.

DUJS Science News

06 Feb 2012
Motivating Energy Conservation Behavior without Monetary Incentives by Andrew Foley ‘15 

Last Thursday, Miriam Fischlein spoke at a faculty candidate seminar for the environmental sciences department at Dartmouth College. Fischlein explained the psychology and sociology behind the motivation of energy conservation.

06 Feb 2012
Changes in Genome Copy Number and Stability in Development by Annie Chen ‘13 

Gene copy number is developmentally controlled by the repression of replication initiation and fork progression. Understanding how DNA is replicated and how chromosomes are pulled apart is a significant issue with respect to human health.

02 Feb 2012
Bioorganometallic Chemistry and Rhenium-based Contrasts by Brendan Wang ‘15 

Richard Herrick, a professor from the College of the Holy Cross, visited Dartmouth this past Thursday to discuss his research in organometallic chemistry.

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Nanoparticle-Based Intracellular Delivery System of Immunomodulatory Agents for Initiation of an Anti-Tumor Immune Response

Riley Ennis '15 

Fraught with chronic side effects, the current paradigm of cancer therapy includes chemotherapy and radiation. Advancements in nanomedical techniques have led to the emergence of a new field of research, cancer immunotherapy, which is the study of stimulating the human immune system to elicit an anti-tumor response through the proliferation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and, the more recently discovered killer dendritic cells.