Research at Dartmouth

Across all five schools, our faculty and student scholars pursue new forms of creative expression and seek answers to pressing questions about climate change, cancer immunotherapy, social justice, cybersecurity, and many other urgent issues.

Through our scholar-teacher model, students work directly with faculty on real-world problems, experiencing the joys and challenges of discovery and creation and helping translate ideas into societal benefit.

As the birthplace of artificial intelligence and the BASIC programming language, the home of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, and a key contributor to the research behind COVID-19 vaccines, Dartmouth has a long history of discovery and creation that reaches well beyond campus.

2025

Climate attribution to specific emitters

Christopher Callahan and Justin Mankin showed how to link climate damages to emissions from specific companies.

2025

Therabot clinical trial

Michael Heinz and Nicholas Jacobson led the first clinical trial of a generative AI therapy chatbot.

2023

Market Shaping Accelerator

Dartmouth economist Christopher Snyder co-directs the accelerator, a partnership of Dartmouth, the University of Chicago, and the Center for Global Development that uses advanced market commitments to spur innovation for urgent global challenges, such as climate change and pandemics.

2022

The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist

Studio art professor Enrico Riley and English professor Vievee Francis created the opera with Stanford composer Jonathan Berger. It premiered at the Hop.

2019

SHRUG development dataset

Paul Novosad and Sam Asher launched an open data platform covering about 500,000 villages and 8,000 towns in India.

2016

Stabilized coronavirus spike protein

Jason McLellan’s Geisel lab, working with Scripps Research and NIAID, found a way to stabilize the spike protein later used in COVID-19 vaccines.

2014

Cherenkov imaging in radiation therapy

In a first human study, Brian Pogue’s Thayer lab and Dartmouth Cancer Center clinicians captured radiation treatment on a patient in real time.

2004

The Big Three financial literacy questions

While at Dartmouth, Annamaria Lusardi, with Olivia Mitchell, designed the Big Three questions and showed how widespread low financial literacy is among Americans.

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Latest Research News

Quoted

There still is stigma with going to seek mental health care, and these tools certainly have the ability to reduce that.

Michael Heinz, assistant professor of psychiatry

STAT

Articles

A Q&A With Interim Provost Matthew Delmont

The award-winning historian talks about serving as Dartmouth’s chief academic officer.

In the News

What a Democratic Congress Could Mean for Indian H-1B Visa Holders

Research co-authored by Professor of Economics Heidi Williams ’03 that found fiscal benefits from exempting STEM master’s and PhD holders from employment-based green card limits is highlighted.

The Economic Times

Schools, Centers, and Institutes

Dartmouth is classified R1, “Very High Research Spending and Doctorate Production,” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, and is a member of the Association of American Universities. More than 75 centers and institutes work across its schools, in areas from cancer immunotherapy and medical imaging to digital health, public policy, energy, and epidemiology.

Class of 1982 Engineering and Computer Science Center. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Schools

Across Dartmouth

Dartmouth Faculty on their Research

Our results reveal that carbon offset programs in the U.S. do not adequately account for the risk of hurricanes.

SHERSINGH JOSEPH TUMBER-DÁVILA, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Read about Tumber-Dávila's research

Agroecology is about building coalitions to ensure equitable representation and coordination between farmers, activists, and academics.

THERESA ONG, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Learn more about agroecology

There has been a lot of emphasis on tree planting in cities, but what people are planting in their yards may not necessarily be sustainable in our warming climate.

GISSELLE MEJÍA, POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

See more on Mejía's study

Our expertise lies in using better computational tools to bring the most cutting-edge numerical methods to solve the model.

ANNE GELB, JOHN G. KEMENY PARENTS PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS

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Graduate and Postdoctoral Research

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars lead research in departments and labs across Dartmouth, in Arts and Sciences, Geisel, and Thayer. The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies brings those programs together.

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduates design and carry out original research with faculty, many starting in their first year, with funding and support from Undergraduate Advising and Research.