Fieldwork in Denali National Park
by Sam Streeter '13, TH '14 Watch Sam's video about his work.
[more]by Sam Streeter '13, TH '14 Watch Sam's video about his work.
[more]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.
[more]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.
[more]May 29, 2014 Dickey Center Director Daniel Benjamin writes in an opinion piece in The Boston Globe that it's time for Germany to "rise to the occasion" and get more involved in foreign policy issues. Read the entire piece in The Boston Globe.
[more]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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