Dickey Center Launches Human Development Fellowships
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding is launching a Human Development Fellowship program for four undergraduates beginning in the fall of 2014.
[more]The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding is launching a Human Development Fellowship program for four undergraduates beginning in the fall of 2014.
[more]This summer the Dickey Center, along with multiple partner organizations across Dartmouth, hosts 25 young leaders from 19 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. They represent a wide range of backgrounds with an incredible array of experiences. These young leaders are the first cohort of the "Washington Fellowship," which is at the center of President Obama's Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI).
[more]According to a new Dartmouth study, record-high temperatures and soot from forest fires in Siberia and North America caused nearly all of the surface ice in Greenland to melt in 2012, reports LiveScience.
[more]by Anna Gleizer '14, Stefansson Research Fellowship, Lake Baikal, Russia During summer 2012, I became the youngest woman to kayak the circumference of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The journey through Russia and into eastern Siberia took two weeks and the circumnavigation itself lasted 45 days, during which I collected hydrology data for an independent research project aimed at evaluating the effect of global climate change and localized anthropomorphic pollution on the quality of Baikal water.
[more]by Michael Berger '14, Stefansson Research Fellowship, Barrow, Alaska My research focused on how the Barrow, Alaska community could stand to benefit from offshore oil drilling that could happen over the next several decades. I looked at how political and corporate institutions such as the North Slope Borough and the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation are acting as players in securing benefits from the drilling.
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