Students in the News

Guarini PhD candidate Parker Seegmiller (computer science) co-led a first-of-its-kind study finding AI-drafted patient messages often need more editing than doctors expect. His team analyzed 146,000 real patient-physician exchanges to figure out what makes AI responses actually helpful. Read more.

Earth sciences doctoral student Mansa Krishna and postdoc Yinmin Liu are using AI to crack problems classical models can’t touch — from mapping hidden ice to speeding up simulations. Their work was front and center at Dartmouth’s first-ever AI in Glaciology …

The Neukom Institute has announced the winners of the 2026 Neukom Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computational Science, recognizing wide-ranging work that spans fields from medieval multiplication algorithms to climate modeling to brain science. Read more.

Elysee Sadia (MALS) and Kristina Shea (comparative literature) are among 29 Dartmouth recipients of Fulbright awards this year. Sadia will teach English in France; Shea heads to Belgium, where she hopes to sharpen her multilingual skills ahead of a PhD …

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 …