Students in the News

Guarini Grad Students Bring Neuroscience to High Schoolers

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 …

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Grad Student Earns Prestigious Fellowship for Exoplanet Research

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. 

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Guarini Graduate Students and Postdocs Translate Complex Research for a Packed Room

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, …

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The Guarini School Dedicates a Week to Say Thank You

Every April, the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies takes a step back from the usual pace of academic life to say thank you. Graduate Student Appreciation Week, held this year April 6-10, was a chance to recognize the researchers, …

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Suhavi Wins 2026 OSCARR for Open, Reproducible Research

Suhavi, a computer science masters student and researcher working interdisciplinarily with the Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society (EEES) Program earned the 2026 OSCARR for developing a machine learning approach to count and classify moths, advancing open, reproducible research and creating …

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Exploring a New Path for Treating Progressive MS

Research by alum Steven Pike, GR ’25, integrated neuroscience (IND), and PhD student Aine Scholand (IND) points to a promising new approach for treating progressive multiple sclerosis, showing that targeting inflammation in the brain may help protect function and slow …

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Songbirds Divide Territory with Surprising Precision

Miranda Zammarelli, a PhD candidate in the ecology, evolution, environment, and society (EEES) program, used decades of bird data to show that migratory songbirds adjust and share breeding territories more evenly as populations grow, offering new insight into how species …

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How Social Influence Shapes How We Feel Pain

Aryan Yazdanpanah, a doctoral student and Innovation Fellow in the psychological and brain sciences program, contributed to research showing how social expectations can influence how we experience pain and effort, revealing how beliefs shaped by others can amplify perception and …

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Clean Energy, Affordability, and the Data Center Boom

Graduate student Caroline Hansley (masters of energy transition) examines how surging electricity demand from data centers and AI is driving proposals for new fossil fuel infrastructure in North Carolina. In NC Newsline, Hansley argues that renewables offer a faster, cheaper, …

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The Brain’s Primitive ‘Fear Center’ Is Actually a Sophisticated Mediator

Jae Hyung Woo, a Guarini PhD candidate in psychological and brain sciences, is first author of a new Nature Communications study showing that the amygdala does more than process fear—it mediates between competing learning strategies when we make decisions under …

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