Submitted by Lee McDavid on Wed, 07/12/2017 - 1:52pm
July 12, 2017 | Fulbright Scholar Program release
Fulbright Arctic Initiative information (pdf)
18-month research program will expand collaborative networks and address shared priorities
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has announced the launch of the second Fulbright Arctic Initiative.
The Fulbright Arctic Initiative is designed to create a network to stimulate international research collaboration on Arctic issues while increasing mutual understanding between people of the United States and the people of other countries. Using a collaborative multidisciplinary model to emphasize communication across disciplines and knowledge co-production, the Initiative will translate theory into practice to address public-policy research questions relevant to Arctic Council member states’ shared challenges and opportunities.
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Sun, 07/09/2017 - 12:41pm
July 6, 2017 | Dartmouth News | Bill Platt
Ross Virginia, the director of Dartmouth’s Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science, has been named a global fellow with the Polar Initiative of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.
“It is good for the Institute of Arctic Studies and it is very exciting for me personally to be chosen as a global fellow at Wilson. It is a very direct connection to the Washington policy world as it relates to the Arctic issues we are focused on,” says Virginia.
Read the entire article online.
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Mon, 05/22/2017 - 10:09am
The “Week of the Arctic” in Fairbanks, Alaska, May 8-14, 2017, highlighted the United States as an Arctic nation and culminated in the historic handover of the Arctic Council Chairmanship from the U.S. to Finland. Opening the week, Dartmouth and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) hosted a daylong workshop, sponsored by the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), to emphasize the importance of the Arctic in research and education exchanges. The launch of the second Fulbright Arctic Initiative program, once again co-led by Dartmouth and UAF, was also announced publicly for the first time.
Dartmouth’s Melody Brown Burkins, Ph.D., Associate Director for Programs and Research at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, welcomed workshop participants and spoke about how the Arctic offered opportunities for increased scientific collaboration and student mobility as well as engagement in global issues of policy and diplomacy.
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Mon, 04/17/2017 - 10:33am
April 17, 2017
Join a week-long game jam with Dartmouth's Tiltfactor Lab. Never made a game before? Tiltfactor can help. They will provide participants with the tools and resources mneeded. Don't have friends to form a team? They'll have people at Tiltfactor who can be your friends! W
When and where will Tilfactor be jamming? Kickoff April 18th @5pm at the Tiltfactor Lab.,2nd floor BVAC. Participants disperse after the kickoff to make games. The jam won't stop until they reconvene on April 25th. Be there. Do good. Bring your A-game.
For more information: Game Jam and Dartmouth Events
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 12:17pm
September 20, 2016 | Arctic Deeply and National Geographic
On September 28, 2016, the White House will host science ministers and representatives from indigenous groups to reflect on Arctic science, monitoring and data sharing. In an op-ed in the publication Arctic Deeply, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies Ross A. Virginia and Univeristy of Alaska Vice Chancellor Michael Sfraga offer their view on the advancement of scientific study in the Arctic.
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Wed, 03/16/2016 - 12:34pm
EurekAlert AAAS | March 16, 2016
Warmer, wetter conditions in the Arctic are accelerating the loss of carbon stored in tundra and permafrost soils, creating a potential positive feedback that further boosts global temperatures, a Dartmouth College study finds.
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 10:38am
February 18, 2016
To mark the mid-point of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative, Arctic Scholars convened in Oulu, Finland, for a week-long plenary meeting and an Arctic Symposium to share updates on their research projects, discuss research challenges, and receive input for moving forward.
Click here for a video link to the entire public program.
Fulbright Arctic Scholar Dr. Ross Virginia, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center at Dartmouth, said, “At our inaugural meeting in Iqaluit, we came as individual scholars from the eight Arctic Council states and left as a team focusing our research on the themes of water, energy, health, and infrastructure. We committed our effort to asking multidisciplinary research questions that are relevant to the wellbeing of communities as well as larger scale issues important to the Arctic Council such as climate change, energy policy, and the health of the Arctic Ocean and freshwaters."
Submitted by Lee McDavid on Tue, 01/12/2016 - 1:06pm
January 12, 2016 | Dartmouth Now
Lauren Culler, a postdoctoral fellow and outreach coordinator at the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center, is about to leave for Antarctica with four high school students from across the country. The 2016 Joint Antarctic School Expedition is a 10-day educational trip led by the Institute of Arctic Studies and the Chilean government funded by the National Science Foundation.
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