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  • Working with Grassroots Community Clinic in Rural Peru

    May 19, 2014

    by Sam Steeter '13, TH '14, International Internship, Peru, Sacred Valley Health In addition to my academic interests in engineering, I have a long-term interest in global health and medicine in rural and under-resourced locations. In the spring of 2012, I undertook a Dickey Center internship in a small mountain community called Ollantaytambo, in the Sacred Valley of the Inca, Peru, with a newly formed, non-governmental, non-profit organization called Sacred Valley Health.

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  • Expanding Education in Nepal

    May 19, 2014
    Wouther Zwart in Nepal

    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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  • How Not to Get Eaten by Polar Bears

    May 18, 2014
    arctic training

    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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  • Talking About Science (ARCUS)

    October 24, 2013
    carbon cycle dance in greenland

    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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