by Wouther Zwart '14, International Internship, VillageTech Solutions, Nepal I spent four wonderful months in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, with a small NGO called VillageTech Solutions. Their education project is an audio-visual teaching aid, which is aimed to improve both the method of teaching as well as to augment the teaching material available to Nepalese public schools.
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May 8, 2014 A two-day polar safety training sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Earth Sciences Department, and the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center focused on staying safe and responding to emergencies, including encountering, or avoiding, polar bears. Canadian bear expert Andy McMullen spent a day with two dozen Dartmouth graduate and undergraduate students and faculty who's research takes them into Greenland, Alaska, Canada and elsewhere.
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A Week as an Arctic Council Delegate in Arkhangelsk, Russia (reprinted from ARCUS) by Ali Giese, PhD Candidate, Earth Sciences
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Read the story in Dartmouth Now, October 28, 2013 Witness the Arctic, a publication of the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S., Oct 23, 2013
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A group of IGERT graduate students filmed a response to a controversial video about women in science. Watch the video that went viral.
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