Spring Term - Week 5

As a reminder, Thursday is the LAST DAY to register to present your science poster at the Wetterhahn Symposium! Even if your poster title isn’t ready, please go ahead and reserve a spot — easels are limited!

We promised ourselves we wouldn’t make any “May the 4th” jokes this year. But this week the James Webb Space Telescope picked up light (in the form of photons) from a galaxy that died long, long ago and far away. Astronomers believe that galaxy JADES-GS-Z13-1-LA existed when the universe was just 330 million years old—an adolescence often referred to as the “Cosmic Dark Ages,” when the universe was dense and foggy with a haze of gas that filled the space between stars and galaxies.

But, like our own “Dark Ages,” there was actually a lot going on during this time! The universe was forming the stars and galaxies that re-ionized the hydrogen within the cosmic gas, enabling photons to travel in all directions unimpeded. The photons arriving from JADES-GS-Z13-1-LA are thought to be the earliest light that we’ve ever seen from across the vast expanses of the universe. And it’s likely that we will see more evidence of predecessor galaxies in the days to come!

THIS WEDNESDAY!!!

Faculty Panel

April 30, 4:00PM, Dartmouth Hall 105

Open to the entire WISP community aWISP friends, mark this one on your calendars! Assistant Professor of Engineering Rebecca Gallivan and Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science Indrani Bhattacharya will speak about their experiences in pursuing the sciences, grad school, and academic career paths, including a Q&A session.

If you are at all considering an academic or professional career in STEM, this is a talk you’ll want to attend.

Please RSVP here!

Register here!

Pre-Symposium Mixer

May 14, 5:30-7:30PM, ECSC South Atrium

We know public speaking can be stressful. Why not practice what you’re going to say at the poster session with us? Hosted by Undergraduate Research, this mixer will allow you to meet other presenters, see some examples of good and less-than-ideal posters (courtesy of our graduate friends), and—if you want—practice your poster “pitch.” No visual aids necessary, so your poster doesn’t need to be complete! Get practice and peer feedback in a comfortable setting.

And we’ll have mocktails and snacks!

Grad School Outside the U.S.

May 1, 1-2PM, virtual session

Join our friends in Fellowship Advising for an in-depth look at what options are out there for graduate school study outside the US. Joining the chat will be multiple alumni who are pursuing degrees in STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences!

This is an ideal session for juniors and seniors considering their path after Dartmouth. Please register on Dartmouth Groups for more details.

Dartmouth AI Community Social Event

May 1, 3:30-5PM, Berry 180 (The LINK)

Co-hosted by the Office of the Provost and the Institute for Writing & Rhetoric, this is an exciting opportunity to meet and learn from others at Dartmouth researching and using AI. Come and meet Montgomery Fellow Sylvie Delacroix, the Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law and director of the Centre for Data Futures at King’s College in London. Professor Delacroix’s research focuses on ethical agency, the social sustainability of the digital ecosystem supporting generative AI, and bottom-up data empowerment.

No registration necessary, open to the public.

Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day

May 3, 9:30AM-3:30PM, Kemeny 008

Sonia Kovalevsky Day is a fun-filled day of mathematics with hands-on workshops and talks for middle and high school students and their teachers. Originally started and funded by the Association for Women in Mathematics, the purpose of the day is to encourage young women to continue their study of mathematics and to assist the teachers of mathematics students. The Dartmouth Math Department hosts this event annually with the goal of inspiring young students to pursue degrees in the mathematical sciences and to honor female mathematicians such as Sonia Kovalevsky, who paved the way with her groundbreaking work and was a strong proponent of higher education for women.

Interested in helping out? Contact the Mathematics Department by registering here!