DMS prof. Jason Moore and a team recently determined that Africans are descended from 14 ancestral populations.
Image retrieved from http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ebtisama/africa_logo.jpg

DUJS Science News

04 Jun 2009
Publication ceased for the term by Editorial Board 

The DUJS has ceased online publication for the term.

04 Jun 2009
Making global medicine a reality by Jay Dalton '12 

M. Roy Schwartz, founder of the Institute for International Medical Education, spoke about globalized medicine in a seminar titled “A Global Profession of Medicine: Hallucination or Realistic Dream?”

03 Jun 2009
Effects of L-kynurenine on fear conditioning may have implications for schizophrenia treatment by Marietta Smith '12 

Dartmouth professor David Bucci, alumna Amy Chess, and Allison Landers ’09 recently published their work on the effects of L-kynurenine on contextual fear conditioning and context discrimination in rats in Behavioural Brain Research.

More News »
Spring 2009

Current Issue

More »

Featured Article

What’s In a Fig? The Interactions Between Figs, Fig Wasps, and Fig Wasp Parasitoids

Yiran Gu '09 

Abstract
Many plants provide consistent and predictable fruit rewards to obtain reliable services from seed dispersers. Fig fruit production, however, is unpredictable in time and space. This behavior creates a scramble for resources in the fruit foraging community. I evaluated one hypothesis that could explain this fruiting behavior. Parasitoids of the obligate fig pollinator wasp (Hymenoptera: [...]