Winter Term - Week 2

This is such an exciting week in the sciences! Researchers have extracted a 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctica, offering unprecedented insights into Earth's ancient climate and atmospheric history. Generative AI is aiding scientists in developing virtual models of human cell activity. And the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, is nearing completion and is set to become the world's most potent neutron facility. It’s hard not to be hyped for STEM when there is so much fascinating work underway around the globe!

WISP Research Internships

Thanks again for those of your who were able to attend the WISP Internship Orientation last week! If you weren’t able to join the Zoom, please be sure to watch the recorded session, which was sent out last Friday.

As a reminder, the first pay period of this term ends at 11:59PM on January 18. Please be sure to submit your hours by then!

Peer Mentor Program

Mentors, WISP offers a PMP grant program! If you have something that you’d like to do with your mentees, let us know; if it’s within our budget, we can help cover it. Some ideas include:

• Grabbing coffee in town while you check in with your mentees

• Picking up sandwiches/snacks for lunch in the LSC Greenhouse

• Hot cocoa for meeting up during Winter Fun Days (Saturdays throughout winter term)

Just send an email to [email protected] if you have an idea for an activity that you would like to do with your mentees!

Thayer Machine Shop

Have you visited the Thayer Machine Shop yet? MShop, as it’s called, is open to all Dartmouth students, regardless of whether you plan to major in engineering or not. Whether you are looking to build something as part of your internship or coursework, interested in 3D printing, or just want to learn how to use some new tools, the staff at MShop are happy to talk.

Interested? Contact [email protected] to schedule a shop tour or chat about your project needs.

Scientific Instruments Collection

Have you ever seen a heliostat, a marine chronometer, or a large current resistor? How about a Geissler tube?

There are pieces of science history everywhere you look at Dartmouth, from the Foucault Pendulum hanging in Fairchild to the Shattuck Observatory overlooking campus. But the College actually has a full collection of scientific instruments that date as far back as Dartmouth’s founding. Equipment used in the pursuit of astronomy, physics, chemistry, and other sciences are held in the Scientific Instruments Collection at the Hood Museum. Check it out!