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Students sitting amongst tall grass and flowers journaling
“ENVS 025 Agroecology,” taught by Theresa Ong, stops by the Organic Farm for a lab assignment. The students are collecting and observing insects. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Students not only learn from top researchers, they also work alongside them, expanding their understanding of the world and making it a better place.

Our faculty, along with students, seek answers to pressing questions about climate change, cancer immunotherapy, social justice, and cybersecurity, among many other issues central to our time. The collaborative, high-impact solution of real-world problems is integral to our teacher-scholar model, enabling students’ hands-on engagement in the joys and challenges of discovery and creation.

 

 

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Our rank in the Ivy League according to the Nature Innovation Index for the long-term, real-world impact of our scholarly work.

 

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An R1 university, Dartmouth has been a member of the consortium of leading research institutions since 2019.

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Our wide-ranging centers and institutes, hubs for innovation and excellence across the arts and sciences, connect our faculty and students to each other in multidisciplinary ways with real-world impacts.  

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Park Dae Sung ink painting on display at the Hood Museum of Art
Hood Museum of Art (Photo by Rob Strong ’04)
Joshua Bennett, Professor of English and Creative Writing
Joshua Bennett, Professor of English and Creative Writing (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

In all my recent work, there’s an overarching theme of celebration in the face of great difficulty, of a meditative tenacity.

Joshua Bennett, professor of English and creative writing
Read about Bennett's latest book
Marnie Halpern
Marnie Halpern in the Vail zebrafish research facility. (Photo by Kurt Wehde)

We have the unique ability to alter the natural asymmetry that occurs—to make fish that are left-left or right-right brained—and see how that affects behavior.

Marnie Halpern, chair and professor of the Department of Molecular and Systems Biology
Learn more about 'DartFish'
Cagney Coomer
Cagney Coomer, 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellow. (Photo by Kurt Wehde)

By being able to map neural circuits, we can start to understand the underlying mechanisms of how brains function and then be able to associate those functions with human neurological diseases.

Cagney Coomer, postdoctoral researcher in the Halpern Laboratory
Read about Coomer's research
Rekha Varrier
Rekha Varrier, a postdoctoral fellow in the FINN Lab in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)

By taking into account people’s own perceptions, we can understand the underlying neural processes better.

Rekha Varrier, postdoctoral fellow in the FINN Lab
Read about Varrier's latest study
Mary Flanagan in studio
Mary Flanagan during her residency with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva, Fla., in 2019. (Photo by Mark Poucher)

I want my work to be seen as asking ‘how can we be optimistic?’

Mary Flanagan, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities
Read more about Flanagan's work
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Researches looking at a fluorescent tank
Elizabeth Pereira, a research scientist, and Amelia Ralowicz, a doctoral student in the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine, at the Hill Lab. (Photo by Robert Gill)
people walking across a glacier in Greenland
The Stretch 2018: The Earth Sciences Department has offered an off-campus field program, also known as the “Stretch,” since the mid-1960s. The Stretch is thus among the most storied and longest-lived off-campus programs at Dartmouth. (Photo by Robert Gill)
Cameron Planck, TH'20 in his Cryosphere Innovation Lab, West Lebanon
Cameron Planck, Thayer ’20, in his Cryosphere Innovation Lab in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. (Photo by Robert Gill)