Archive for April, 2009

Commercialized CdSe/ZnS quantum dot nanoparticles are surprisingly not assimilated and most likely nontoxic to aquatic organisms like Daphnia magna, according to research led by the director of Dartmouth’s Trace Element Analysis Core Laboratory Brian Jackson.

Georgia Benkart, a Professor Emerita at University of Wisconsin-Madison and President of the Association for Women in Mathematics, delivered a talk this Wednesday on alternating sign matrices and their roots in Dodgson condensation, a method for calculating matrix determinants.

Scientists at Dartmouth Medical School have uncovered a key mechanism in mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 virus through breast-feeding.

Researchers led by Daniel Bullock at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center recently pinpointed three main characteristics used to identify child abuse cases in hospitals.

A recent paper titled “Early life seizures cause long-standing impairment of the hippocampal map,” written by Dartmouth alumnus Havisha Karnam and Dartmouth Medical School professor Gregory Holmes, helps explain how seizures affect the developing brain.

Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid discussed forensic techniques used to detect digital tampering at Friday’s Jones Seminar.

This year’s Miguel Marin-Padilla Lecture featured Henry Tazelaar from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Tazelaar spoke Thursday about pathology’s role in emerging transplant methods.

Although astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, the universe remains a mystery–99.9% of the universe is still unmapped. Harvard professor Avi Leob discussed two new methods for mapping the universe’s most elusive phenomena in the presentation “Exploring New Physics in the Early Universe and Around Black Holes” last Friday.

A research team led by Dartmouth Medical School professor Leslie Henderson recently discovered a new key mechanism explaining how chronic anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use alters neural signaling involved in the expression of social behaviors in female mice. The finding was published this month in Neuroscience.
AAS are synthetic derivatives of testosterone, originally used to treat male [...]

Today’s engineers must increasingly consider environmental factors when designing new products, according to Stephen Endersby, Product Manager at Dassault Systemes SolidWorks Corporation and featured speaker at a Jones Seminar lecture at the Thayer School of Engineering on April 3.
The seminar, entitled “A Holistic View of Product Design for the Enlightened Engineer” dealt with the growing [...]