May 21, 2025
Emma passes her Oral Qualifying Exams
Emma, a 2nd year PhD Student, presented her literature-based oral qualifying exam and passed! She is now a Thayer PhD Candidate. Professors Liz Mur...
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Apr 3, 2025
Emma attends the 2025 CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women in Denver, CO.
The conference consisted of sessions on imposter syndrome, practical tips on publishing, and workshops on presentation and communication skills.&nb...
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Mar 17, 2025
Liz participates in the AI and Student Mental Health Symposium
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Mar 11, 2025
Emma presents at BME poster session
As part of the yearly Research In Progress (RIP) symposium at the Thayer School of Engineering, Emma presented on the Maternal Mental Health projec...
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Mar 10, 2025
Dylan passes his thesis proposal
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Mar 6, 2025
Emma attends NSBE conference
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Feb 19, 2025
Liz presents Somatic Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention for Rural Teens with Anxiety
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Jan 25, 2025
Jan 9, 2025
Songyun's Wayfair Internship
Thrilled to share that Songyun has accepted an internship at Wayfair �...
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Nov 21, 2024
Allen passes his Qualifying Exam
Committee members include Profs. Joelle Ferron, Wesley Marrero, Gene Santos, and Liz Murnane.
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Nov 19, 2024
Lab receives shoutout in article about RealVision project
Collaborator Karen Fortuna, lead of the RealVision project, was recently featured in a spread about our collaboration to develop smartphone-based d...
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Nov 9, 2024
Vafa attends CSCW 2024
Vafa attended CSCW 2024 in Costa Rica to student volunteer and to support her co-author Aishwarya Chandrashekar in presenting their paper: Chandraseka...
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Nov 1, 2024
Dylan and Emma welcome new PhD Innovation cohort
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Oct 25, 2024
Dylan wins 2023 CTBH poster prize
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Oct 24, 2024
Allen is awarded Alumni Research Award
Allen Song has been awarded the Guarini Alumni Award to support his research on designing artificial intelligence technologies to support school psych...
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Sep 25, 2024
Emma designs Roche & Genentech’s Award Video
Roche and Genentech has been recognized by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) for elevating women’s healthcare worldwide with the 2024 A...
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Sep 21, 2024
NAM Catalyst Award received for research on music-based interventions
We have received a Catalyst Award from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for our proposal "Designing Music-Based Interventions for Aging-Related ...
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Sep 14, 2024
Empower Lab hosts annual retreat for new academic year
Prof. Murnane, Dylan, Emma, Pape, Shirin, Sid, and Vafa get together for team bonding activities in the local Upper Valley community.
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Sep 4, 2024
Jonathan defends MS thesis
https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/events/ms-thesis-defense-jonathan-bonilla-toledo
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Aug 22, 2024
Vafa awarded Phillips Family Student Professional Development Internship award.
Vafa awarded Phillips Family Student Professional Development Internship award to support her attendance at CSCW 2024
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Jul 2, 2024
Songyun passes his Research Presentation Exam
Committee members include Profs. Michael Casey, Soroush Vasoughi, and Liz Murnane.
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Jun 12, 2024
Hannah passes her Qualifying Exam
Committee members include Profs. Lynn Fiellin, Liz Murnane, James O'Malley, and Nick Jacobson.
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Jun 2, 2024
Empower Lab wins 2022 Thayer Fitness Challenge!
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May 16, 2024
Vafa's CHI 2024 paper for the Empathy-Centric Design Workshop: Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual Workshop
You can read her paper on "Weight Bias in Design: Unpacking Implicit Researcher Beliefs for Building Empathy" [here](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114...
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May 13, 2024
Empower Lab attends the CHI 2024 Conference
Dylan, Emma, Hannah, Shirin, Sid, Songyun, Vafa, Liz and Empower Lab collaborators attended the 2024 ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI c...
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May 11, 2024
Paper appearing at CHI 2024
Moore, Dylan Edward, et al. "Teaching artificial intelligence in extracurricular contexts through narrative-based learnersourcing." Proceedings of the...
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Apr 11, 2024
Vafa accepted to attend CRA-WP 2024
Vafa was accepted to attend the 2024 Grad Cohort for Women in Minneapolis, hosted by the Computing Research Association's Committee on Widening Partic...
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Apr 2, 2024
Empower Lab participates in Engineering Open House
Come say hi to Empower Lab members and try out our demos at the 2024 Engineering Open House! More info here: [https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/events...
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Mar 19, 2024
Shirin awarded Centers Forum at Dartmouth Grant
The Centers Forum at Dartmouth funds proposals for creative programming that address the 2023-2024 theme: _Uncommon Collaborations: Dialogue Across Di...
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Mar 15, 2024
Emma receives Neukom Institute for Computational Science Travel Grant
Emma receives $1000 to attend CHI 2024 conference and participate in the PhysioCHI workshop. These grants, awarded to excellent and deserving proposal...
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Mar 1, 2024
Dom accepted as a SEPA mentor
Dom has been accepted as a grad mentor in the Dartmouth's Rural STEM Educator Partnership program, which is supported through a Science Education Part...
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Feb 10, 2024
The lab has finalized its t-shirt design for 2024!
Shout out to Sid for the graphic design!
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Feb 2, 2024
Emma contributes to “Creating a Vision of Women-Centric Cancer Care” White Paper
During the 2023 [FemTechnology Summit](https://femtechnology.org/women-centric-cancer-care/) at Roche in Basel, Switzerland, a band of innovators (i.e...
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Dec 31, 2023
Sid receives Hopkins Art Integration Grant for EvocativeVR Project
EvocativeVR is a Virtual Reality (VR) platform designed to support creative, emotionally therapeutic practices. It empowers users to dynamically exter...
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Dec 5, 2023
Empower Lab hosts Winterim game day
Led by Sid Patil, the Empower Lab will host a game day on December 5, 2023. More details about this event other Winterim activities are available here...
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Nov 15, 2023
Dylan receives his MEM degree from Thayer
Dyan completed his Masters of Engineering Management (MEM) degree at Dartmouth, specializing in Human-AI Interaction.
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Oct 25, 2023
Shirin & Dylan presented posters at the Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health Digital Health Summit
To help shape a vision for making digital therapeutics accessible to all, the [Clinically-Validated Digital Therapeutics: Innovations in Scientific Di...
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Oct 10, 2023
Emma designs White Paper with Hera Biotech Startup
Emma collaborates to publish landscape, pharmacoeconomics, and patient journey report on endometriosis and fertility,[ “The Labyrinth Unwound: A New P...
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Sep 18, 2023
Shirin attending the Patient Experience Symposium
Shirin is traveling to Boston to attend the 7th annual Patient Experience Symposium. The conference brings together leading stakeholders from across h...
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Sep 6, 2023
Emma is welcomed into Dartmouth’s PhD Innovation Cohort
Dartmouth’s PhD Innovation Program Fellows met for a reception to welcome the new Fellows. These grad students learn entrepreneurial and business skil...
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Aug 28, 2023
Empower Lab receives Prouty grant
The Empower Lab's [Weight & Wellness](https://empowerlab.dartmouth.edu/projects/weight-and-wellness) team has been awarded a [Prouty Pilot grant](http...
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Jun 14, 2023
NSF Engines Semifinalist
Professors Liz Murnane, Vikrant Vaze, and Wesley Marrero are lead faculty on a team selected as one of Read More
Jun 10, 2023
Liz hoods Teja at Thayer Investiture 2023
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Jun 10, 2023
Pape walks in Guarini Investiture 2023
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Jun 6, 2023
Triple Helix pop-up exhibition at AVA gallery
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May 22, 2023
Daniel successfully defends his undergraduate thesis
Daniel has successfully defended his senior thesis, "The Dilemma of Disclosure: Designing Interpersonal Informatics Tools for Mood Tracking."
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May 11, 2023
Dom's local STEM outreach
Dom helped to run a workshop at the Montshire Museum to help children learn forensic science as part of a pretend jewel heist.
Full story here: [htt...
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May 10, 2023
Pape passes MS thesis defense!
A big shout-out to Pape for his successful thesis defense on using metaphors to visualize and support customizable and collaborative health tracking!
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May 5, 2023
Dom defends his MS thesis!
Congratulations to Dom for successfully completing his MS thesis, "A Political Theory of Engineered Systems and A Study of Engineering and Justice ...
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May 3, 2023
Teja defends her PhD thesis!
Kudos to Teja for passing her thesis on integrating sustainable design frameworks and life cycle assessment tools in product development!
Committee m...
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Mar 30, 2023
Dylan is awarded "Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher"
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Mar 1, 2023
Arts Integration grant received for Triple Helix project
Xuedan Zou, Kyle Huang, and Ziang Ren were awarded an Arts Integration grant from the Hopkins Center for their project "Triple Helix: AI-Artist-Aud...
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Feb 23, 2023
Shirin awarded Leslie Center for the Humanities Student Research Fellowship
Leslie Center Student Research Fellowship offers students a unique opportunity to undertake creative projects at the intersection of humanities and ot...
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Feb 12, 2023
Dylan visits collaborators at University of Colorado Boulder
Dylan had the chance to visit our collaborators Prof. Clayton Lewis, Prof. Steve Voida, and members of Steve's lab.
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Jan 28, 2023
Lab members participate in digital health accelerator
https://www.c4tbh.org/accelerator/
https://www.c4tbh.org/center-highlight/diadhawards/
Pepper Plush / Smart Toys project
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Jan 6, 2023
Longitudinal deployment of the WhoIsZuki system accepted at IMWUT 2023
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Dec 1, 2022
Teja receives an Irving Institute mini-grant to attend GreenBiz'23
https://irving.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/01/recent-irving-institute-student-grant-awardees
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Nov 17, 2022
Andra passes her undergraduate thesis defense
Hats off to Andra for her achievement in passing her thesis, "Enhancing Product Development with Sustainable Design and Life Cycle Assessment."
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Sep 27, 2022
Lab is winner in 2022 Healthy Longevity Challenge
For our research on music-based interventions for healthy aging, the Empower Lab has been named as one of five awardees in the National Academy of Med...
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Sep 13, 2022
Graduate Fellowships Workshop
Will Scheideler, Wesley Marrero, Liz Murnane, and Thayer Career Services are hosting a workshop about graduate fellowships on September 13, 2022. The ...
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Sep 10, 2022
Liz presents at 2022 Digital Health Summit
At this year's Digital Therapeutics Summit hosted by the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH) and Dartmouth's Magnuson Center for Entrep...
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Jun 28, 2022
Bryton accepts job at EarthShift
https://earthshiftglobal.com/blog/bryton-moeller-brings-human-centered-design-skills-to-the-earthshift-global-team
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May 23, 2022
Catherine passes senior thesis defense
Congratulations to Catherine for her successful defense of her senior thesis titled "Designing Narrative-Based Interfaces for Collective Action: A Cas...
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Mar 22, 2022
Lab receives Neukom CompX grant
Our proposal "Building Children's AI Literacy through Play-based Educational Technologies" has received a Neukom CompX grant! More info about our p...
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Feb 28, 2022
Dom receives Irving mini-grant for his proposal "Exploring the Importance and Design of Intrinsically Valuable Electric Power Systems"
https://irving.dartmouth.edu/research/funding-students/complete-list-student-grant-projects-and-activities
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Nov 24, 2021
Dylan wins Graduate Student Scholarship from Armenian Professional Society
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Jun 12, 2021
Teja receives Thayer Diversity and Inclusion award
At the [2021 Investiture](https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/events/investiture/2021), Teja Chatty together with Amy Keeler received Thayer's inaugural...
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Mar 24, 2021
Liz appears in spread on new Dartmouth faculty
Dartmouth News has a feature welcoming incoming faculty, including their reflections on how creativity drives their research and teaching. Article [he...
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Mar 15, 2021
StoryCoder accepted at CHI 2021 and receives honorable mention award
Our paper with Stanford collaborators about voice-based interfaces that use storytelling as a vehicle to teach computational thinking concepts to youn...
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Jan 4, 2021
Luce fellowships available for sophomore or junior women in engineering
Attention sophomore and junior women! The engineering department still has Luce fellowships available, which can sponsor your research with our lab. T...
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Dec 24, 2020
Teja presenting virtually at DESIGN 2020
Our paper with Stanford collaborators on people's experiences with physical self-tracking materials is now out in the IMWUT (Interactive, Mobile, Wear...
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Oct 26, 2020
Teja virtually attending VERGE
Teja is virtually headed to [VERGE 2020](https://events.greenbiz.com/events/verge-conference/online/2020), taking part in various online sessions such...
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Oct 5, 2020
Liz featured as one of 11 faculty named to endowed chairs
Dartmouth News has featured Liz and her endowed appointment to the Charles H. Gaut and Charles A. Norberg Assistant Professorship, which she's **_incr...
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Sep 25, 2020
National Academy of Sciences chapter now available
The NAS Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging report has been published! Liz contributed a chapter on mobile and sensor technology (available [here](ht...
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Sep 10, 2020
Hana Ba-Sabaa awarded a Junior Research Scholarship
Hana has been selected as a [Junior Research Scholar](https://students.dartmouth.edu/ugar/research/programs/sophomore-and-junior-research-scholars) Ju...
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Aug 12, 2020
Liz featured in Thayer News as a new faculty member
Thayer News has a feature on Liz joining the Engineering Faculty! Article [here](https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/news/elizabeth-murnane-joins-dartmo...
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Jul 25, 2020
Catherine Parnell named a Clare Boothe Luce Scholar
Catherine has been awarded a Luce Fellowship, which will support her research with our group through 3 terms of funding plus a research stipend. Congr...
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Jun 19, 2020
Synapse e-book released
A culmination of her efforts during her Synapse internship and beyond, Teja has co-authored an e-book on Sustainable Product Design! The e-book abstra...
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Jun 12, 2020
DartmouthCHI event will showcase papers by Dartmouth affiliates
With CS professor XD Yang, Liz is helping put together a "DartmouthCHI" virtual event to showcase exciting research by members of our fast-growing HCI...
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Jun 11, 2020
Liz attends Google's Digital Health and Wellbeing Summit
Google's invitation-only Digital Health and Wellbeing Summit took place virtually June 9-11 and brought together academics and Googlers focused on how...
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May 21, 2020
Teja passed her qualifying exam!
Last week Teja took her PhD Qualifying Exam, and now it's official: the committee (Jeremy Faludi, Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Vikrant Vaze, and Liz) was una...
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Mar 23, 2020
Paper accepted at IDC 2020
Paper with Stanford collaborators on the development of interactive narratives for math learning (available [here](https://empower-lab.emurnane.host.d...
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Mar 6, 2020
WhoIsZuki gets a Best Paper Award at CHI 2020!
Our paper on designing narrative-based feedback to motivate behavior (available [here](https://empower-lab.emurnane.host.dartmouth.edu/publications.ht...
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Feb 25, 2020
Interactions special issue on Inbodied Interaction is out
The multi-institution collaboration to create a special topic spread on Inbodied Interaction is now available in the [March-April 2020 issue](https://...
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Jan 16, 2020
Two papers appearing at CHI 2020
We have two papers accepted to CHI 2020! One article is with Stanford collaborators about the design of personalized, narrative-based interfaces to mo...
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Dec 16, 2019
Teja interning with Synapse this winter
Teja is heading to her internship at Synapse Product Development in Seattle! She'll be a Sustainable Design Research Intern for the next 3 months, per...
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Dec 9, 2019
Liz presenting to National Academies
Liz is traveling to Washington D.C. to present at an NIA-sponsored National Academies of Sciences [workshop](https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-wor...
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Dec 4, 2019
Teja selected as a Runner for the Magnuson Center's West Coast Experience
Teja is taking part in another Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum opportunity, having been selected as a Runner for the West Coast Experience Program! The ...
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Sep 5, 2019
Teja attending the west coast Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum
Teja is on her way to San Francisco to participate and volunteer at the Dartmouth Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF). The DEF is open to the full Dartmouth com...
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Jul 1, 2019
Teja accepted to SSEDR'19
The Summer School for Engineering Design Research (SSEDR) is a 2-part summer program for PhD students taking place this year during May and July ...
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Jun 1, 2019
Liz is joining Dartmouth!
Liz has accepted Thayer's offer to join the faculty as the Charles H. Gaut Charles H. Norberg Assistant Professor of Engineering! She'll be deferring ...
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