Graduate Student Appreciation Week
April 2-6, 2018
In recognition of graduate students and their
valuable contribution to the Dartmouth community.

In recognition of graduate students, DDS will offer complimentary coffee/tea (any size) to all graduate students at all of their locations, April 2-6.
In addition, on Monday, April 2 graduate students will only pay $5.00 for lunch at 53 Commons courtesy of The GRAD School. Bring your Dartmouth ID. Make sure to read the GRAD School's social media sites for free giveaways including a fleece vest!

Spring Employer Connections Fair
Tuesday, April 3, 11-3 pm
Hopkins Center
Meet 50+ EMPLOYERS from a wide variety of fields: Appian, Beacon Group, Enernoc, Inc., Eversource Energy, TraceLink, U.S. Green Building Council and more! Click here http://sites.dartmouth.edu/cpd/files/2018/03/Spring2018FairDirectory.pdf for full list of employers.
All students are welcome to get a free LinkedIn photo!




Outstanding Grad Student Teacher Appreciation Lunch
Tuesday, April 3, 12-1:30 pm in DCAL (102 Baker Library)
Graduate students who have been nominated by undergraduates for their teaching, either in a classroom or research setting, will be invited to lunch at DCAL.


STEPS Science and Technology Policy Brief Workshop
Tuesday, April 3rd at 1pm in Haldeman 124.
STEPS is kicking off the 4th Annual S&T Policy Brief Competition with a lunch workshop on how to write one! STEPS faculty adviser and competition judge, Dr. Melody Burkins-Brown, will go through how to present a scientific issue and your potential solution. The S&T Policy Brief Competition has a $250 grand prize for the best 3-5 page position paper. This workshop is the best way to improve your chances of a successful submission! The abstract/intent to submit deadline for the competition will be April 18th. Please email [log in to unmask] to RSVP for the workshop, lunch will be provided!

Brain Freeze
Wednesday, April 4
12 pm - 1:15 pm
Location: TBA
https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/admin/calendar/221
Sharing ideas for thawing research stumbles



Graduate Poster Session
Wednesday,
April 4, 5-7:30 pm
Alumni Hall
This annual forum allows graduate students to display and present their scholarly work to the Dartmouth community. Prizes awarded to the top presenters.
The Poster Session will also host the award ceremony for the Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award and the Graduate Community Award.


Underrepresented Minority Graduate Student Lunch
Thursday, April 5 @12 noon
53 Commons, Room 204
Join Assistant Dean of Recruiting and Diversity Jane Seibel and fellow graduate students for lunch at 53 Commons for Graduate Student Appreciation Week. When you arrive at 53 Commons tell the checker you are attending the URM lunch. Join us in Room, 204.


Mental Break
Thursday, April 5, 5:30 pm
GRAD Lounge
In collaboration with National Public Health Week, relax and take a mental break.
We will have a yoga session led by an instructor from 5:30 pm-6:30 pm and coloring from 6:30-7:30 pm


Bell Tower Tour on Dartmouth Campus
Friday, April 6
Two different times
12 pm-12:30 pm
https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/4048144
Or
12:30-1pm
https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/4048146

See things from a different perspective at one of the highest points on campus. Meet tour guide Randy Brown at the info desk in the Baker Main Lobby.



GSC GRAD Appreciation Happy Hour
Friday, April 6, 5-7 pm
GRAD Lounge
Close out the week with light food and a drink. The Graduate Student Council would like to appreciate the hard work of all GRAD students with this happy hour event! Students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend.

The Graduate Student Council Communications Committee and the Graduate Studies Office are sponsoring a competition amongst graduate programs at Dartmouth. You could win cash prizes or a party for your entire program by submitting a 500 word or less blog post about your research or your graduate school experience to [log in to unmask] Individual awards, which include a cash prize, include “Most Honest”, “Most Informative”, “Best Research Writing”, “Most Interesting”, and “Best Overall”. The program with the highest percentage participation of students wins a party! Please submit posts by April 5. Winners will be announced at the GRAD Happy Hour, Friday April 6, 2018 from 5-7 pm in the GRAD Lounge. We look forward to your submissions!

Poster Presenters 2018

Chuankai An, Computer Science (Dan Rockmore)
Referral Paths in the U.S. Patient Referral Network

Aylin Aykanat, Chemistry (Katherine Mirica)
2D Aza-Fused Covalent Organic Frameworks

Iara Backes, Microbiology and Immunology (David Leib, Margaret Ackerman)
Maternal mAb Therapy for Neonatal Herpes

Amy Biermann, Microbiology (Deborah Hogan)
Mrr is Involved in Regulating Expression of Methylglyoxal Detox Genes in Candida lusitaniae

Nicholas Blelloch , Chemistry (Katherine Mirica)
Photo-Responsive Sublimable Adhesives

Carly Bobak, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (Jane Hill, James O'Malley)
Developing Diagnostics for Tuberculosis using Big Data

Daisy Burr, Psychological and Brain Sciences (Luke Chang)
Temporal Dynamics of Spontaneous Affective Processing: Longer Negative Emotional Events are Rated More Positively

Keith Carlson, Computer Science (Daniel Rockmore)
Publication Bias and Political Affiliation in the U.S. Circuit Courts

David Chen, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (Brock Christensen, Arminja Kettenbach)
Predictive Analytics of Cancer Protein Expression Using Epigenetic and Genomic Features

Jin Hyun Cheong, Psychological and Brain Sciences (Luke Chang)
Temporal Dynamics in Biomarkers of Doctor Empathy Modulates Patient Pain Responses in Simulated Clinical Interactions

Victor Churchill, Mathematics (Anne Gelb)
Edge-Adaptive l2 Image Reconstruction from Vehicle SAR Dataset

Michelle Clay, Microbiology and Immunology (Deb Hogan)
Microoxic Life of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Emma Cutler, Thayer School of Engineering (Mary Albert)
Dynamic Risk Analysis of Coastal Beach Nourishment

Alejandro Damasio Gil, Chemistry (Michael Ragusa)
Structure and Function of Atg20 and Atg24

Laurie Delatour, Molecular and Systems Biology (Hermes Yeh)
The Effects of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure on Radial Migration and the Development of Pyramidal Neurons in the Somatosensory Cortex

Sally Demirdjian, Microbiology and Immunology (Brent Berwin)
PIP3 Induces Phagocytosis of Non-Motile Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Yunling Deng, Chemistry (Ekaterina Pletneva)
Effects of the Intraprotein Hydrogen-Bonding Network on the Dynamics of the Alkaline Transition of Cytochrome C



Melanie Dennis, Mathematics (Peter Doyle)
Generalizing the Red Hot Potato

Evan Dethier, Earth Sciences (Carl Renshaw, Francis Magilligan)
Global Spatial and Temporal Variation in River Suspended Sediment Transport

Kayla Duval, Thayer School of Engineering (Jack Hoopes)
Immune Enhancement of Hypofractionated Radiation

Monica Espinoza, Molecular and Systems Biology (Michael Whitfield)
Filtration and Normalization Techniques for Differential Abundance Testing with Metagenomics Data from Patients with Systemic Sclerosis (SSc)

Alicia Everitt, Thayer School of Engineering (Ryan Halter)
Real-time Detection of Prostate Cancer Using a Custom Tetrapolar-based Electrical Impedance Sensing Biopsy Needle

Anne Farrell, Biology/EEES (Olga Zhaxybayeva)
Evolution of Optimum Growth Temperature in Thermotogae

Jennifer Franks, Molecular and Systems Biology (Michael Whitfield)
Novel Machine Learning Classifier Accurately Classifies Intrinsic Molecular Subsets of Systemic Sclerosis

Hannah Grover, Thayer School of Engineering (Zi Chen)
Biomechanics of Early Embryonic Brain Morphogenesis

Rachael Hachadorian, Thayer School of Engineering (Brian Pogue)
The Inverse Correlation of Cherenkov Emission and Tissue Optical Properties Measured by Reflect RS

David Han, The Dartmouth Institute (Lisa Schwartz, Steven Woloshin)
Fourth Year Medical Student Perceptions of Wellness Resources at Geisel

Huanping Huang, Earth Sciences (Jonathan Winter, Erich Osterberg)
Mechanisms of the Extreme Precipitation Jump in the Northeastern United States after 1996

Margaret Jackson , Earth Sciences (Meredith Kelly)
Tropical African Glacier Fluctuations During Termination 1

Congran Jin, Thayer School of Engineering (Zi Chen)
Analyzing the Mechanical Response of an Ionic Polymer-Metal Composite (IPMC)-Actuated Bistable Structure

Joshua Kerkaert, Microbiology (Robert Cramer)
Aspergillus fumigatus Hypoxia Response Impacts Biofilm Formation

Michael Ko, Chemistry (Katherine Mirica)
Electrically-Transduced Devices Based on 2D Metal-Organic Frameworks

Michael Kokko, Thayer School of Engineering (Douglas Van Citters)
Explants, Electrons, and Light: The Search for Prosthetic Joint Infection

Caitlin Kowalski, Microbiology and Immunology (Robert Cramer)
Experimental Evolution of Aspergillus fumigatus in Low Oxygen Reveals Novel Genes Associated with Virulence

Ethan LaRochelle , Thayer School of Engineering (Brian Pogue, Scott Davis)
Non-contact Optical Sensing of In-vivo Tumor Oxygenation During Radiation Therapy

Stephanie Lee, Molecular and Systems Biology (Hermes Yeh)
Ethanol, Calcium and Growth Cone Dynamics in Immature GABAergic Cortical Interneurons


Gabe Lewis, Earth Sciences (Erich Osterberg)
Spatial Variability of Accumulation Across the Western Greenland Ice Sheet Percolation Zone from Ground-penetrating-radar and Shallow Firn Cores

Ko-Wei Liu, Microbiology and Immunology (Robert Cramer)
An Ancient Conserved Protein Domain is Critical for Innate Host Defense Against Aspergillus fumigatus

Audrey Martin, Thayer School of Engineering (Douglas Van Citters)
Disassociation of Acetabular Liners: Retrieval Analysis with Mechanical Simulation

Katherine McCoy , Molecular and Cellular Biology (Gevorg Grigoryan )
Predicting PDZ-Peptide Binding Strengths

Matthew Mehlenbacher, Chemistry (Dean Wilcox)
Thermodynamic Characterization of the Periplasmic Mercury Binding Protein, MerP

Haydn Mitchell, Chemistry (Katherine Mirica, Douglas Van Citters)
Molecular Solids as Sublimable Adhesives

Dallas Mould, Molecular and Cellular Biology (Deborah Hogan)
Synergistic Interactions Between Microbes Over Space and Time

Meghan Muse, Epidemiology (Diane Gilbert-Diamond, Brock Christensen)
Relationship Between In Utero Arsenic Exposure and Growth During the First Year of Life in a New Hampshire Pregnancy Cohort

Mavra Nasir, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (Jane Hill)
Towards Breath-based Diagnostics for Lung Infections in Cystic Fibrosis

Brandon Ross, Microbiology and Immunology (Robert Cramer)
Adaptation of Aspergillus fumigatus to the Cystic Fibrosis Lung: The Role of Nitrogen Metabolism in Persistence

Tamer Shabaneh, Microbiology and Immunology (Mary Jo Turk)
Oncogenic BRAFV600E Governs Regulatory T cell Recruitment During Melanoma Tumorigenesis

Baihao Shao, Chemistry (Ivan Aprahamian)
Photochromic Hydrazone with On-Off Fluorescence Response

Dong Woo Shin, Chemistry (Ekaterina Pletneva)
A Molecular Insight into Function-Switching in Cytochrome c

Phuong Vincent, Thayer School of Engineering (Brian Pogue)
Effect of Tumor Stroma on Drug Delivery in Pancreatic Cancer

Katharine von Herrmann, Molecular and Systems Biology (Matthew Havrda)
NLRP3 Polymorphism Associated with a Decreased Risk of Parkinson's Disease Impacts NLRP3 Protein Life Cycle

Shanice Webster, Microbiology and Immunology (George O'Toole, Mary Lou Guerinot)
Novel Role of the Type IV Pili Alignment Complex, PilMNOP Proteins, in Surface Sensing and Cyclic-di-GMP Signaling

Owen Wilkins, Epidemiology (Brock Christensen)
Normal Breast Tissue 5- hydroxymethylcytosine is Enriched at DNA Regulatory Elements in Breast Cancer Cells

Xiaotian Wu, Thayer School of Engineering (Ryan Halter, Joseph Paydarfar)
Evaluating Surgeons' Performance with and without Intraoperative Imaging during Laryngoscopy

Hello!

My name is Meena Palaniappan, and I am one of the counselors at the Counseling Center/Dick’s House. This term the Counseling Center and OPAL is co-sponsoring an International Student Discussion Group. I am reaching out to you as Heather Earle informed me that you may be able to help us advertise this group to international MALS and Graduate School students. The group will begin next Thursday and will run from 6:30 - 7:30 in Collis 219. Students are invited to bring their dinner so we can share a meal together during the discussion.

It is a drop-in style support group (i.e. no weekly commitment required), and will be a place were graduate and undergraduate international students on campus can come to connect with other students, talk about adjustment-related concerns, winter, homesickness, social concerns, feeling isolated, etc.

We would greatly appreciate it if you are able to forward or post the attached flyer for students who may benefit from this space. Do let me know if you have any questions, and thank you!

Best,
Meena


Meenakshi Palaniappan, Ph.D.
Staff Counselor │Counseling Center│ Dartmouth College Health Service

7 Rope Ferry Rd │Hanover, NH 03755
ph: (603) 646-9442 │fax: (603) 646-9410