Students in the News

The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies honored 249 graduate students during its 2026 Investiture ceremony on Saturday, June 13, on the Dartmouth Green, marking the school’s tenth anniversary. Faculty, families, and friends gathered to celebrate 118 PhD, 61 …

Third-year PhD candidate Johnathan Rodgers Gochicoa (molecular and cellular biology, cancer biology) studies radiation resistance in glioblastoma in the Pointer Lab. Off the clock? He’s a volunteer firefighter in Lyme. Read more.

Nine Guarini students have earned National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships, bringing the school’s total to 24 active fellows this fall. Recipients span physics and astronomy, bioinformatics, cognitive neuroscience, number theory, ecology, and engineering. Read more.

For four Guarini School doctoral students, this April meant a different kind of fieldwork: taking their research to Washington and making the case for science on Capitol Hill.

Savannah Byron (engineering, PhD Innovation Program), Aislinn Gilmour (quantitative biomedical sciences), Salar …

In April, doctoral students Savannah Byron, Aislinn Gilmour, Salar Khaleghzadegan, and Mizuki Tojo represented Dartmouth at the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering workshop in Washington, D.C. Get to know each of them — their research, their path to Guarini, …

Twelve graduate students earned this year’s Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher recognition, nominated by the undergraduates whose Dartmouth experience they shaped. Meet the honorees, from chemistry and math TAs to research mentors and writing tutors, and read what their students had …

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 …

Yiping Li, a doctoral student in the quantitative biomedical sciences program, is quoted in a recent Healthline article on the lesser-known health risks of ultra-processed foods, including their link to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in young adults. Read more …

How do you get kids excited about neuroscience? Try handing them a brain.

First-year doctoral students in the Integrative Neuroscience at Dartmouth (IND) program, part of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, organized the 12th annual Upper Valley …

Rayna Rampalli (physics and astronomy) received a 51 Pegasi b Fellowship to study how chemical signatures of planet-hosting stars reveal patterns of exoplanet formation across the Milky Way, building population-level profiles that place new discoveries in a broader galactic context.  …