Archive for October, 2009

Dartmouth professor Ryan Calsbeek and postdoctoral researcher Robert Cox recently found that intraspecific variation in sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in brown anole lizard (Anolis sagrei) can be attributed to underlying sex differences in responses to local variation of environmental conditions, rather than solely to natural selection.

Professor Elisha Huggins presented his award-winning program as a tool for teaching physics and talked about his convictions on how to teach contemporary physics at a colloquium conducted by the physics department last Friday at Dartmouth College.

Researcher Magdalena Lyimo presented her research on the anti HIV-1 properties of human breast milk at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center last Wednesday.

Maureen Barr, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers University, presented new developments in mating genetics in a seminar on Friday that described the role of microtubules and motors in the mating behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Dartmouth professor emeritus David Lemal recently discovered new pathways for cycloaddition reactions of o-fluoranil, a highly reactive and versatile electrophile.

The department of physics & astronomy hosted a public lecture on Thursday that featured K.C. Cole, who gave a presentation describing how Frank Oppenheimer was an inspirational friend and figure in her life.

Pamela Silver, professor of systems biology at Harvard University, asserted that bioengineering will play a key role in the future of engineering in a Jones Seminar lecture on October 2nd.

Dan Portnoy, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, addressed how the human innate immune system detects pathogenesis in a seminar last Monday.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) recently installed an upgraded warning system that will allow researchers to restart it in November after over a year of being out of operation.

A panel of five specialists addressed the challenges of science and policy at the Dartmouth Colloquium on Global Health this past Friday. The distinguished panelists, including Jim Yong Kim, drew on experiences from their work in different aspects of the field.