Fall Term 2025: Week 6

It’s National Chemistry Week! Each year, the American Chemical Society organizes a celebration of their field around a specific theme. This year’s selection: “The Hidden Life of Spices.” The ACS provides an array of events and resources focused on topics like the chemical properties behind spices' flavors, colors, and medicinal use.

Here on campus, the Chemistry Department is hosting their own demonstration of the underlying chemistry story behind everyday spices. Check out the event, below!

-The WISP Team

The Hidden Life of Spices

Monday, October 20, 11AM-1PM

Under the Fairchild Globe

Curiosity in Common: Binoculars to Binomials

Monday, October 20, 12:15-1:30PM

Haldeman 031

Hosted by Dartmouth Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, this talk combines data visualization, art, and an appreciation for the vibrant avian population on campus. Visiting speaker Jer Thorp is an artist, writer, and teacher from New York, best known for designing the algorithm that placed the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. He was The New York Times’ first Data Artist in Residence, is a National Geographic Explorer, and served as the Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress in 2017 and 2018. He is one of the world’s foremost data artists and a leading voice for the ethical use of big data.

Digging Dartmouth: Community Archaeology on our Campus

Monday, October 20, all day

In front of Baker-Berry

Interested in archaeology? Discover Dartmouth’s archaeological history through items excavated on campus by Prof. Jesse Casana and students enrolled in Archaeological Field Methods: Digging Dartmouth. Come and see pieces of Hanover history being unearthed!

Arts Integration Showcase

Saturday, October 25, 2-5PM

Daryl Roth Studio Theater, Hopkins Center

Join the Hop for it’s fifth annual Arts Integration Initiative, co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost. Here, the arts meet everything—medicine, climate, anthropology, virtual reality. Dive into interactive and mind-opening projects by students & faculty.

Undergraduate researchers, this is a good event to attend if you’re interested in how to convey your research to a lay audience in creative ways.

Coming Up!

Research Showcase: 10 Years of the Academic Clusters at Dartmouth

Thursday, October 30, 2:30PM

Hanover Inn Ballroom

Open to the public, come and see the tenth anniversary celebration of the Academic Cluster Initiative, highlighting interdisciplinary collaborations that have transformed the academic landscape at Dartmouth, initiated groundbreaking new research, and developed innovative ideas and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

The event will feature high-energy TED-talk style presentations from lead cluster faculty exploring questions such as:

• What are our brains trying to teach us?

• What roles do rights, democracy, and capitalism play in a global world?

• If everything is digital, is anything safe?

• How will a changing Arctic impact the world?

• Can sensory technology deliver longer, healthier lives?

Many of the clusters are STEM-focused or STEM-adjacent, and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

Supermoon Party!

Tuesday, November 4, 6-7:00PM

Wilder Atrium (Wilder 300)

Cohosted by WISP, Physics & Astronomy, and the Physics & Astronomy Society, we welcome you to meet with physics majors and faculty, WISP alumnae, and other undergraduates who are exploring their place in these disciplines. We’ll also use the department’s small telescopes to view the full moon!