Students in the News

Emily Sigman, a PhD student in ecology, evolution, environment, and society, is leading research on contaminants in maple syrup, exploring how heavy metals and PFAS might concentrate in sap and whether simple filtration methods can make syrup safer.Read more in  …

Three Guarini students are among the recipients of the 2025 Arts Integration Initiative Grants. Awarded by the Hopkins Center for the Arts and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, these grants support innovative faculty-student collaborations. Congratulations to Luke …

Sarah Cuprewich, a PhD candidate in the ecology, evolution, environment, and society program (EEES), has been awarded the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award. This award helps graduate students bridge science and policy by …

A study co-authored by Dartmouth researchers, including Lucas Price, a former postdoc in geography, and Joseph Savage, a graduate student in the ecology, evolution, environment, and society program (EEES), reveals that up to 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry Lyme-causing …

Miranda Zammarelli, a PhD candidate in the ecology, evolution, environment, and society program, is digitizing decades of hand-drawn maps to track songbird territories at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Her research sheds light on bird populations, habitat preferences, and conservation …

Abigail Dutton (MD/PhD candidate) and Evelyn Turnbaugh (PhD candidate), both studying microbiology and immunology, research how early herpes simplex virus (HSV) exposure in infant mice affects cognitive decline. Their work explores links to Alzheimer’s and the protective potential of maternal …

Jacob Chalif ’21, a graduate student in the earth sciences department, is part of an NSF-funded team drilling for some of the world’s oldest ice in Antarctica. His work will help uncover past climate patterns and human impact on the environment, writes Kevin O’Connor. View article.