Postdocs in the News

Sophie von Fromm, a former Neukom Fellow, found that widely used soil carbon models consistently underperform in sub-Saharan Africa, missing key regional processes like organo-mineral interactions. The work was featured as an Editor’s Highlight by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) …

Robert Weiner, a postdoc in the religion department, is quoted in a new Science News Explores article on a landmark study tracing Native American dice games back 12,000 years, exploring what games of chance reveal about how early peoples built …

Dartmouth postdoc Weronika Tomczyk (ecology, evolution, environment, and society) helped uncover the first hard evidence of Peruvian hairless dogs at a 1,200-year-old site in Peru. A clue in their missing teeth led her there. Read mor

A new study in Nature co-authored by Corey Lesk, a former Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow who is now a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, finds the world’s rainfall is consolidating into bigger storms and longer dry spells, leaving less …

Torrey Peters, Guarini ’14, and former Dartmouth postdoc Bench Ansfield were both named 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalists: Peters in Fiction for Stag Dance: A Quartet and Ansfield in History for Born in Flames. Read more.

The 11th annual event brought together 180 volunteers, the most in the program’s history.

Science Day at Dartmouth returned April 25 for its 11th year. Kids pressed strawberries to extract DNA, grew candy crystals, built bristle bots out of toothbrush …

More than 300 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, faculty, staff, and guests filled the Ballroom at the Hanover Inn last Thursday for the annual Guarini Poster Session. The goal was to explain complex research in terms a non-expert could follow – clearly, …

The Neukom Fellows Program, now in its fourteenth year, has named its Class of 2026. Since its founding, the program has appointed 51 interdisciplinary postdoctoral scholars across 34 departments and programs. The program supports computationally focused research. Read more.

The Dartmouth Postdoctoral Association and the University of New Hampshire Postdoctoral Association joined forces for a day of science, connection, and career insights.

On March 27, the Dartmouth Postdoctoral Association (DPA) and the University of New Hampshire Postdoctoral Association co-hosted …

Anand Pathak, a postdoctoral fellow in the psychological and brain sciences department, is featured in a Big Think article highlighting research he coauthored that uses brain-like computational models to reveal previously overlooked neurons involved in learning and decision-making. Read more …