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10th May 2012

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08th May 2012

The Globalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its Integration with Conventional Medical Treatments

This past Thursday, Dr. George Y. C. Wong gave the keynote address on the globalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a colloquium sponsored by the department of Asian & Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures.

08th May 2012

Amphidynamic Crystals: Key Molecular Machines

This past Thursday, Miguel Garcia-Garibay of UCLA spoke at Dartmouth College about his recent research regarding amphidynamic crystals.

08th May 2012

Keeping Flagella and Cilia Moving

Last Friday, Professor Winfield Sale from Emory University described his recent research on cell motility at the weekly Biology Department seminar.

07th May 2012

Tropical Mathematics

Last week, professor Bernd Sturmfels from the University of California Berkeley delivered a talk on tropical mathematics, a unique area of study that offers novel approaches to basic problem solving.

30th Apr 2012

New Discoveries in Epigenetics

A new revolution has begun—the epigenome revolution. Professor Thomas Woodward, a professor and chair of the theology department at Trinity College of Florida, presented new scientific discoveries concerning epigenetics last Thursday in Carson Hall.

29th Apr 2012

Trends of Cardiometabolic Morbidity and Mortality in Schizophrenic Patients

In a recent publication, Nancy E. Morden, M.D., M.P.H, of Dartmouth Medical School, and researchers from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, provided evidence against the long held belief among health care providers of a correlation between high rates of cardiometabolic disease and schizophrenia.

29th Apr 2012

The Behavioral Effects of Anabolic Steroid Use

Joseph G. Oberlander and Leslie P. Henderson of Dartmouth Medical School recently published a paper titled “The Sturm und Drang of anabolic steroid use: angst, anxiety and aggression,” focusing on possible short-term and long-term behavioral effects of using illicit anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS).

24th Apr 2012

Contrasting Methods of Valuing A Surgical Procedure Evaluated

On April 5 2012, Dr. Abhishek Chatterjee of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center co-published a paper titled “Application of Total Care Time and Payment per Unit Time Model for Physician Reimbursement for Common General Surgery Operations” in the Journal of American College of Surgeons.

24th Apr 2012

Update from the Large Hadron Collider: Closing in on the Higgs Boson

Professor John Butler of Boston University briefed the Dartmouth’s Physics Department on the state of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at last Friday’s colloquium.