Humans of Hanover 2025

Humans of Hanover Meet the People Who Make Dartmouth…Dartmouth!

What defines Dartmouth College?

Certainly its location in the small college town of Hanover, New Hampshire. Absolutely its fusion of a liberal arts college and a robust research university. Definitely its small classes taught by professors who are leaders in their fields. Home to over 4,400 undergraduates, Dartmouth is a place where students, faculty, and staff partner across academic disciplines to take on some of the biggest challenges facing our world.

So what exactly makes Dartmouth...Dartmouth? The people, of course. We affectionately call them the Humans of Hanover, and you’ll meet several of them in the pages that follow.

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A Pre-Health Student Draws on His Rural Roots

From Random Roommates to Found Family Aleaokalani “Alea” Kahele ’27 she/her/hers Hometowns: Sandy, Utah and the Big Island of Hawaii Majors: Earth Sciences and Native American and Indigenous Studies

Ramsey Ash ’24 he/him/his Hometown: Huntington, West Virginia Majors: Quantitative Social Science and Music; Pre-Health Track

“If you’re a rural student and that’s your story, tell it.”

Olivia Ajdler ’27 she/her/hers Hometown: New York City, New York Majors: Sociology and Music

“Within the U.S. or even a global context, I definitely grew up in a rural place,” reflects Ramsey Ash ’24, whose hometown sits near West Virginia’s border with Ohio. Inspired by those roots and his Dartmouth coursework, Ramsey recently wrote his senior thesis on vaccine hesitancy in rural areas.

Ramsey traces his interest in health care all the way back to his first-year seminar class, The Values of Medicine. “I learned that the cultures you exist in, the identities that you hold, and the things you experience impact your health in very real ways. I became infatuated with the humanistic approach to medicine as it relates to pressing health challenges. That class opened my eyes to the possibility of becoming a doctor.”

Equally important to Ramsey, who is the son of musicians, are his musical ambitions. He founded a clarinet choir at Dartmouth and joined the music department’s Foreign Study Program in London. “Forming a community around music was a transformative experience for me in terms of thinking about the ways that music can positively impact health, particularly mental health,” he says.

Ramsey encourages other college-bound students from rural backgrounds to embrace that as a defining feature of their identity. “Colleges are interested in your story, and that includes the answer to ‘What is the place you grew up like?’ If you’re a rural student and that’s your story, tell it. Your experiences are interesting, different, and important.”

Students receiving need-based financial aid pay the same net price for a term on a Dartmouth off-campus study program as they would for a term in Hanover.

Alea Kahele ’27 is a Dartmouth tour guide and a member of Hōkūpa’a, Dartmouth’s pan-Pasifika organization. Olivia Ajdler ’27 is on the club baseball team and plays in a campus band.

They both graduated from religious high schools (Alea a Catholic school and Olivia a Jewish school). Here, they reflect on how they met—and why their roommate relationship works.

Alea: We were randomly matched to be roommates in our first year. I loved that there was no pressure for us to be very best friends or to have the same friends. We each have our own interests and places we fit on campus, and I think that makes us better roommates. I really enjoy meeting Olivia’s friends.

Olivia: My friends seep into your life just by us being roommates.

We both have different social circles, but we’re still tied to each other. We are more like family than friends, in a sense, because you don’t choose your family; it’s built in.

Alea: We don’t think of our room as “this is my side, and that’s your side.” We are one room, and we have a responsibility to make sure the other person is cared for, safe, and comfortable.

Olivia: We’re also good at asking each other, “Do you mind this? Do you mind that?” If one of us minds, we say that. We talk in respectful language and communicate well enough to anticipate each other’s needs.

“We each have our own interests, and I think that makes us better roommates.”

—Alea Kahele ’27

Dartmouth is need-blind for all students and meets 100% of demonstrated financial need.

A Pre-Health Student Draws on His Rural Roots

From Random Roommates to Found Family Aleaokalani “Alea” Kahele ’27 she/her/hers Hometowns: Sandy, Utah and the Big Island of Hawaii Majors: Earth Sciences and Native American and Indigenous Studies

Ramsey Ash ’24 he/him/his Hometown: Huntington, West Virginia Majors: Quantitative Social Science and Music; Pre-Health Track

“If you’re a rural student and that’s your story, tell it.”

Olivia Ajdler ’27 she/her/hers Hometown: New York City, New York Majors: Sociology and Music

“Within the U.S. or even a global context, I definitely grew up in a rural place,” reflects Ramsey Ash ’24, whose hometown sits near West Virginia’s border with Ohio. Inspired by those roots and his Dartmouth coursework, Ramsey recently wrote his senior thesis on vaccine hesitancy in rural areas.

Ramsey traces his interest in health care all the way back to his first-year seminar class, The Values of Medicine. “I learned that the cultures you exist in, the identities that you hold, and the things you experience impact your health in very real ways. I became infatuated with the humanistic approach to medicine as it relates to pressing health challenges. That class opened my eyes to the possibility of becoming a doctor.”

Equally important to Ramsey, who is the son of musicians, are his musical ambitions. He founded a clarinet choir at Dartmouth and joined the music department’s Foreign Study Program in London. “Forming a community around music was a transformative experience for me in terms of thinking about the ways that music can positively impact health, particularly mental health,” he says.

Ramsey encourages other college-bound students from rural backgrounds to embrace that as a defining feature of their identity. “Colleges are interested in your story, and that includes the answer to ‘What is the place you grew up like?’ If you’re a rural student and that’s your story, tell it. Your experiences are interesting, different, and important.”

Students receiving need-based financial aid pay the same net price for a term on a Dartmouth off-campus study program as they would for a term in Hanover.

Alea Kahele ’27 is a Dartmouth tour guide and a member of Hōkūpa’a, Dartmouth’s pan-Pasifika organization. Olivia Ajdler ’27 is on the club baseball team and plays in a campus band.

They both graduated from religious high schools (Alea a Catholic school and Olivia a Jewish school). Here, they reflect on how they met—and why their roommate relationship works.

Alea: We were randomly matched to be roommates in our first year. I loved that there was no pressure for us to be very best friends or to have the same friends. We each have our own interests and places we fit on campus, and I think that makes us better roommates. I really enjoy meeting Olivia’s friends.

Olivia: My friends seep into your life just by us being roommates.

We both have different social circles, but we’re still tied to each other. We are more like family than friends, in a sense, because you don’t choose your family; it’s built in.

Alea: We don’t think of our room as “this is my side, and that’s your side.” We are one room, and we have a responsibility to make sure the other person is cared for, safe, and comfortable.

Olivia: We’re also good at asking each other, “Do you mind this? Do you mind that?” If one of us minds, we say that. We talk in respectful language and communicate well enough to anticipate each other’s needs.

“We each have our own interests, and I think that makes us better roommates.”

—Alea Kahele ’27

Dartmouth is need-blind for all students and meets 100% of demonstrated financial need.

AResearching Mushroom Hunter Soil Energy and Justice Ecologist Study theSouth Synergies in the Global of Nadine Plants and Fungi Lorini Formiga ’25

“The infrastructure that supports undergraduate researchers at Dartmouth is unparalleled.”

—Dr. Kelly

she/her/hers Hometown: Porto Alegre, Brazil Liam Nokes ’25 Major: Geography he/him/his Minors: Environmental Studies and Hometown: Arlington, Massachusetts Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies Majors: Environmental Studies and Mathematics modified with Biology

he/him/his Hometown: Dallas, Texas Karina Mitchell ’23 Major: Biomedical Engineering she/her/hers Minor: African and African American Studies Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Major: Biomedical Engineering Minors: Sociology and Psychology

Nadine Lorini Formiga ’25 and geography researcher Dr. Sarah Kelly are studying energy transitions in within LatinIndigenous America. communiLiam Nokes ’25 and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies ties in Latin America.

Dr. Kelly: Energy justice is a framework that aims to diagnose Bala Chaudhary are studying mycorrhizae—the symbiotic associDr. Kelly:within injustices Energyenergy justicesystems is a framework and support that energy aims totransitions diagnose ations between plants and fungi—and their impact on ecosysinjustices away from within a fossil-fuel energy systems economy and and support towards energy a low-carbon, transitions tems at a global scale. away from a economy. regenerative fossil-fuel At economy Dartmouth’s and towards Energy aJustice low-carbon, Clinic, regenerative we give students economy. across At all disciplines Dartmouth’s theEnergy tools toJustice ethically Clinic, and Professor Chaudhary: My lab is tracking the aerial dispersal we give students meaningfully conduct across research all disciplines that serves the community tools to ethically needs.and of mycorrhizal fungi at 20 different sites across the country. We meaningfully conduct research that serves community needs.

Nadine: from to study imporneed a lotI received of handsfunding to process theDartmouth samples from thesethe sites, and Nadine: tance of I transnational received funding solidarity from networks to among study Indigenous the importhat’s where undergraduates like Dartmouth Liam come in. tance ofaround groups transnational matters solidarity of energynetworks justice. My among research Indigenous focuses groups on theWhen around study I oflearned matters alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice.approach My research to combinfocuses Liam: about mycorrhizae, I was hooked.

I’ve on ing the understandings study of alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice andapproach food sovereignty to combinin learned to process DNA samples and examine mycorrhizae, soil, ing southern justice and food in and understandings roots.Brazil.

Recently, of I’veenergy been working with Dr. sovereignty Chaudhary to southern Brazil. create a database of mycorrhizal fungal spore traits.

Dr. Kelly: The infrastructure that supports undergraduate res­

Moses Matanda ’25 has been tinkering with new ways to bridge the gap between technology and medicine. “I knew that IWhen wanted to pursue medicine of the health problems asked about the roots ofbecause her military and academic purmy family faced,” he ’23 remembers.

“I started ‘Howacan suits, Karina Mitchell immediately thinksthinking, of her father, civilI bring the currently best of engineering intoU.S. medicine?’” engineer serving in the Army. “I have a core memresearch through the up FirsttoYear in ory Moses of my dove Dad’s into deployment, taking him the Research airport and Engineering Experience,then a program that offers first-year seeing him leave—and the joy of him coming home undersafe,” graduates she says. early exposure to hands-on work and mentorship in engineering.

With the of Dartmouth Engineering faculty, Karina followed in support the footsteps of her father and grandfaMoses of a team that worked to improve a neonatal ther, a was Navypart veteran, as Company Commander of Dartmouth’s continuous positive airwayCorps pressure (CPAP)a interface.

He later went Reserve Officers’ Training (ROTC), program that prepares on to support histo peers as a lead tutor Emerging college students become officers in for theDartmouth U.S. military.

Karina Engineers, helpstraining aspiringand engineering majorsscience build a classes strong underwentwhich intensive took military academic in their prerequisite courses. along withfoundation her Dartmouth classes.

“The Army tries really hard to Asan a inclusive junior, Moses applied Dartmouth’s Geisel School of build culture, and sotodoes Dartmouth,” Karina says.

Medicine Early Assurance which identifies Karinathrough was alsoitsthe co-captain of Program, the women’s varsity basoutstanding foron admission following ketball team,Dartmouth where shejuniors focused creatingto a Geisel community and their undergraduate This fall, he will Geisel’s a culture.

“A pillar ofstudies. my basketball career hasjoin been leavingClass this of 2029. place better than I found it. That starts by helping people become Moses credits Dartmouth’s liberal arts curriculum—which accustomed to living a championship lifestyle.”

When not on the encourages students to Karina take classes widein range of court or in the classroom, studiedacross wounda care Assistant subjects—with pushing him new academic directions. Lab. “After Professor of Engineering KatieinHixon’s Tissue Engineering taking an African African when American Studies class, I decided Karina marked and a milestone she was commissioned into that I wanted know history. Iffrom I want to better the Army just to one day more prior about to her my graduation Dartmouth serve peopleShe in my future, I need tograduate know about what happened last spring. plans to complete work in biomedical in the past.” before pursuing a career as an orthopedic trauma engineering surgeon in the military.

earchers Dr. Kelly:atThe Dartmouth infrastructure is unparalleled. that supports Dartmouth undergraduate has worldres­ Professor The lab isand collaborative, not earchers class faculty, atChaudhary: Dartmouth staff, and students, is unparalleled. the College Dartmouth hascompetitive. always has worldhad The interact understanding thathas rising tideshad lift classstudents undergraduate faculty, staff, education andwith students, atanthe center and theofCollege its mission. always all boats.

In my lab, undergraduates, PhD students, technical proundergraduate education at the center of Iitshad mission.

Nadine: Before comingallto Dartmouth, a very abstract fessionals, and postdocs learn from one another.

Nadine: Beforeofcoming understanding research. to Now, Dartmouth, I wantI to hadbea avery researcher! abstract understanding One ofWe mytalk biggest research. takeaways Now, from I the want tolab beJustice a researcher!

Clinic is Liam: a of lot about equity in STEM inEnergy our discussions and One that ofdiscuss my biggest only happens takeaways by listening from to Energy the communities Justice Clinicon is oftenchange questions like “What arethe the goals of our research, that ground. the change That’s a beautiful by listening lessonThe I’ll tolab take the with my on and how will only they happens make an impact?” hascommunities mademe meineven the life forever. ground.

That’s the a beautiful lesson I’ll take me in my more excited about intersection of science andwith social systems. life forever.

“The lab is collaborative, not competitive. The students interact with an understanding that rising tides lift all boats.”

— Professor Chaudhary

he/him/his Hometown: Los Angeles, California LukeLatino, Grayson ’25 Majors: Majors:Latin LatinAmerican, American, Latino,and & Caribbean CaribbeanStudies Studiesand and he/him/his English with a Concentration in Creative Writing Hometown: Seaham, England Major: Economics

“I’m a poet, and I can say that with confidence now.”

“A pillar of my basketball career has been leaving this place better than I found it.”

“How can I bring the best of engineering into medicine?”

of Dartmouth students Dartmouth engage in A60% vibrant global community, funded by a deep well of is research—often home to students from nearly 100 countries campus resources.languages. speaking over 90 different

InAn Dartmouth’s International Classrooms, Student Discovers a Poet Finds the Power His Voice of the Liberal Arts Edgar Morales ’24

“The flexible liberal arts system helped me discover subjects I’d never considered before.”

Applying Human-Centered A Captaina and Commander Lens to Medical Follows in Research Her Father’s Footsteps Moses Matanda ’25

60% of Dartmouth students engage in Dartmouth will not include loans as part research—often funded bycreated a deep to well of of the financial aid award meet campus resources. need. a student’s demonstrated

“I ended up publishing my first two papers based on my senior honors thesis—work that was funded by grants I accessed as an undergraduate.”

— Professor Thayer

Edgar Morales ’24 entered Dartmouth intending to study engi“I grew but up instead in a small seaside town whose“Leaving industryLos centered neering, found comfort in poetry.

Angearound coal mining through thea big ’90s,” Luke Grayson ’25 says. les and moving to Hanover was shift.

I experienced feelings “Education bigpoetry, focus in the area.to I always wanted to of nostalgiawas andnever guilt.a In I attempt relive memories: go somewhere where others I couldjoyous; find more room grow.” some of them painful, some real,to others imagined.”

The2023, concept a liberalofarts college Poets was unfamiliar Luke In The of Academy American recognizedtoEdgar until he Dartmouth. describing value of a Swim. liberal with its discovered Most Promising Young In Poet Award the for his poem artsjoins education, underscores its emphasis ensuring He a cohortLuke of renowned writers, includingonSylvia Plath that and students learn how think encouraging them to take courseOcean Vuong, who to first wonbyrecognition through the program. work that wrote spans his a wide variety of of disciplines.

“Imagine sitting Edgar first collection poems after reading The at a dinner table with history’s greatest scholars,” says.Latinx “The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo in Professor Marcela DiheBlasi’s product of a liberal arts education is aPoet person who sit at Intergenerational Literature class. “The X was thecould first place head of such a tableProfessor and quite on any and Ithe saw myself in poetry.

Dicomfortably Blasi helpedtake me understand all of Latinx the attending in enthusiastic conversation, no matter how literatureparty operates within academia.” the Edgar’s topic. I senior arrivedthesis at Dartmouth intending to major in engineerproject, which centered around the term ing, but the flexible liberal arts systemofhelped me discover sub“motherland,” explored the redress memories lost through jects I’d neverInconsidered immigration. support ofbefore.” his research, the English and creative Lukedepartment now plans to pursue economics major taken writing funded hisantravel to Mexico to and meethas some of classes in computer science, his family for the first time. Italian, history, linguistics, and more.

He says theEdgar senseisof community he’safound in of Hanover hasdegree made Today, working towards Master Fine Arts Dartmouth like that a second “There’s such intense in poetry. “Ifeel believe poetryhome. is for anybody.

I’m aan poet, and campus,” Luke says. international student, Itogetherness can say thaton with confidence now.“As As an long as I’m writing and I’ve found a strong community reading, that’s enough for me.” of friends to help me through.

Dartmouth has allowed me the option of redefining myself.”

A Biological StudyingAnthropologist Factors at Studies Play How in the Environments Polls Shape Our Carson GohHealth ’25 he/him/his Hometown: Nashua, New Hampshire Zaneta Thayer ’08 Majors: Majors:Quantitative Quantitative Social Social Science Science and & Government Government she/her/hers Associate Professor of Anthropology

In 2004, Professor Together, Carson Zaneta Goh ’25 “Zane” and Jason ThayerBarabas ’08—then ’93a high haveschool been student froma Cottage researching wide spectrum Grove, Oregon—was of topics within in the American thick of polher college itics.

Professor search. Barabas, “When I an flew expert out for in political Dartmouth’s knowledge, admitteddelibstudent program, eration, publicI met policy, kids and from democratic all over the country performance, and the world. is the I loved that director of Dartmouth’s I’d be surrounded Rockefeller by soCenter many different for Publicperspectives Policy and and Social the experiences.”

Sciences.

Professor Thayerup wasinquickly drawn to a double in biolCarson: Growing New Hampshire, I was major interested in ogy and anthropology, a field centered around the scientific study learning how howredistricting—the redistricting—theprocess process of drawing of drawing electoral electoral disof humanity.

Today, she is ainbiological anthropologist who studies trict district boundaries—is boundaries—is done done this in this veryvery politically politically active active state. state.

So, how and why early life environments shape human biology and while So, while taking taking Professor Professor Barabas’ Barabas’ classclass Polling, Polling, Public Public Opinion, Opinion, and health outcomes.

Recently, she Ihas been analyzing howabout maternal Public and Public Policy Policy my first-year my first-year fall, fall, approached I approached him about him my deep my depression impacts the production of the stress hormone cortisol interest deep interest in polling in polling and data, andand data, he and brought he brought me on asme a research on as a in both mothers and their babies. assistant. research assistant.

Her Dartmouth experience, she says, was transformational Professor Barabas: Carson is a great example how for her future research on psychosocial stress of and theDartmouth effects of undergraduates can historical get involved with that really up interest racism, poverty, and trauma ontopics health.

“I ended pubthem. lessons andon has ablehonors to apply them lishing He myabsorbed first two the papers based mybeen senior thesis— in ourthat research projects, in other courses,asand most recently, work was funded by grants I accessed an undergraduate. through major scholarships that he’s won collabThat wastwo foundational to my subsequent careertoaspursue a researcher, orative We’re studying a candidate’s age impacts and I tryresearch. to pay that forward withhow my students.” public support for that person in office, among other topics.

“If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.”

Carson: Dartmouth fosters students who are interested in making change through public service, and that’s where I see myself.

I hope to go to law school after graduation. If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.

—Carson Goh ’25

Dartmouth is need-blind meets 100% The average scholarship forand a member of the of demonstrated financial need for allamount students, Dartmouth Class of 2028 is $71,582—an that oftotal citizenship. equals nearlyregardless 80% of the cost of attendance.

Students receiving need-based financial aid pay Dartmouth the same net does price not for include a termloans on a as Dartmouth part off-campus of the financial study program aid award as they created would to meet afor student’s a term in demonstrated Hanover. need.

AResearching Mushroom Hunter Soil Energy and Justice Ecologist Study theSouth Synergies in the Global of Nadine Plants and Fungi Lorini Formiga ’25

“The infrastructure that supports undergraduate researchers at Dartmouth is unparalleled.”

—Dr. Kelly

she/her/hers Hometown: Porto Alegre, Brazil Liam Nokes ’25 Major: Geography he/him/his Minors: Environmental Studies and Hometown: Arlington, Massachusetts Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies Majors: Environmental Studies and Mathematics modified with Biology

he/him/his Hometown: Dallas, Texas Karina Mitchell ’23 Major: Biomedical Engineering she/her/hers Minor: African and African American Studies Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Major: Biomedical Engineering Minors: Sociology and Psychology

Nadine Lorini Formiga ’25 and geography researcher Dr. Sarah Kelly are studying energy transitions in within LatinIndigenous America. communiLiam Nokes ’25 and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies ties in Latin America.

Dr. Kelly: Energy justice is a framework that aims to diagnose Bala Chaudhary are studying mycorrhizae—the symbiotic associDr. Kelly:within injustices Energyenergy justicesystems is a framework and support that energy aims totransitions diagnose ations between plants and fungi—and their impact on ecosysinjustices away from within a fossil-fuel energy systems economy and and support towards energy a low-carbon, transitions tems at a global scale. away from a economy. regenerative fossil-fuel At economy Dartmouth’s and towards Energy aJustice low-carbon, Clinic, regenerative we give students economy. across At all disciplines Dartmouth’s theEnergy tools toJustice ethically Clinic, and Professor Chaudhary: My lab is tracking the aerial dispersal we give students meaningfully conduct across research all disciplines that serves the community tools to ethically needs.and of mycorrhizal fungi at 20 different sites across the country. We meaningfully conduct research that serves community needs.

Nadine: from to study imporneed a lotI received of handsfunding to process theDartmouth samples from thesethe sites, and Nadine: tance of I transnational received funding solidarity from networks to among study Indigenous the importhat’s where undergraduates like Dartmouth Liam come in. tance ofaround groups transnational matters solidarity of energynetworks justice. My among research Indigenous focuses groups on theWhen around study I oflearned matters alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice.approach My research to combinfocuses Liam: about mycorrhizae, I was hooked.

I’ve on ing the understandings study of alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice andapproach food sovereignty to combinin learned to process DNA samples and examine mycorrhizae, soil, ing southern justice and food in and understandings roots.Brazil.

Recently, of I’veenergy been working with Dr. sovereignty Chaudhary to southern Brazil. create a database of mycorrhizal fungal spore traits.

Dr. Kelly: The infrastructure that supports undergraduate res­

Moses Matanda ’25 has been tinkering with new ways to bridge the gap between technology and medicine. “I knew that IWhen wanted to pursue medicine of the health problems asked about the roots ofbecause her military and academic purmy family faced,” he ’23 remembers.

“I started ‘Howacan suits, Karina Mitchell immediately thinksthinking, of her father, civilI bring the currently best of engineering intoU.S. medicine?’” engineer serving in the Army. “I have a core memresearch through the up FirsttoYear in ory Moses of my dove Dad’s into deployment, taking him the Research airport and Engineering Experience,then a program that offers first-year seeing him leave—and the joy of him coming home undersafe,” graduates she says. early exposure to hands-on work and mentorship in engineering.

With the of Dartmouth Engineering faculty, Karina followed in support the footsteps of her father and grandfaMoses of a team that worked to improve a neonatal ther, a was Navypart veteran, as Company Commander of Dartmouth’s continuous positive airwayCorps pressure (CPAP)a interface.

He later went Reserve Officers’ Training (ROTC), program that prepares on to support histo peers as a lead tutor Emerging college students become officers in for theDartmouth U.S. military.

Karina Engineers, helpstraining aspiringand engineering majorsscience build a classes strong underwentwhich intensive took military academic in their prerequisite courses. along withfoundation her Dartmouth classes.

“The Army tries really hard to Asan a inclusive junior, Moses applied Dartmouth’s Geisel School of build culture, and sotodoes Dartmouth,” Karina says.

Medicine Early Assurance which identifies Karinathrough was alsoitsthe co-captain of Program, the women’s varsity basoutstanding foron admission following ketball team,Dartmouth where shejuniors focused creatingto a Geisel community and their undergraduate This fall, he will Geisel’s a culture.

“A pillar ofstudies. my basketball career hasjoin been leavingClass this of 2029. place better than I found it. That starts by helping people become Moses credits Dartmouth’s liberal arts curriculum—which accustomed to living a championship lifestyle.”

When not on the encourages students to Karina take classes widein range of court or in the classroom, studiedacross wounda care Assistant subjects—with pushing him new academic directions. Lab. “After Professor of Engineering KatieinHixon’s Tissue Engineering taking an African African when American Studies class, I decided Karina marked and a milestone she was commissioned into that I wanted know history. Iffrom I want to better the Army just to one day more prior about to her my graduation Dartmouth serve peopleShe in my future, I need tograduate know about what happened last spring. plans to complete work in biomedical in the past.” before pursuing a career as an orthopedic trauma engineering surgeon in the military.

earchers Dr. Kelly:atThe Dartmouth infrastructure is unparalleled. that supports Dartmouth undergraduate has worldres­ Professor The lab isand collaborative, not earchers class faculty, atChaudhary: Dartmouth staff, and students, is unparalleled. the College Dartmouth hascompetitive. always has worldhad The interact understanding thathas rising tideshad lift classstudents undergraduate faculty, staff, education andwith students, atanthe center and theofCollege its mission. always all boats.

In my lab, undergraduates, PhD students, technical proundergraduate education at the center of Iitshad mission.

Nadine: Before comingallto Dartmouth, a very abstract fessionals, and postdocs learn from one another.

Nadine: Beforeofcoming understanding research. to Now, Dartmouth, I wantI to hadbea avery researcher! abstract understanding One ofWe mytalk biggest research. takeaways Now, from I the want tolab beJustice a researcher!

Clinic is Liam: a of lot about equity in STEM inEnergy our discussions and One that ofdiscuss my biggest only happens takeaways by listening from to Energy the communities Justice Clinicon is oftenchange questions like “What arethe the goals of our research, that ground. the change That’s a beautiful by listening lessonThe I’ll tolab take the with my on and how will only they happens make an impact?” hascommunities mademe meineven the life forever. ground.

That’s the a beautiful lesson I’ll take me in my more excited about intersection of science andwith social systems. life forever.

“The lab is collaborative, not competitive. The students interact with an understanding that rising tides lift all boats.”

— Professor Chaudhary

he/him/his Hometown: Los Angeles, California LukeLatino, Grayson ’25 Majors: Majors:Latin LatinAmerican, American, Latino,and & Caribbean CaribbeanStudies Studiesand and he/him/his English with a Concentration in Creative Writing Hometown: Seaham, England Major: Economics

“I’m a poet, and I can say that with confidence now.”

“A pillar of my basketball career has been leaving this place better than I found it.”

“How can I bring the best of engineering into medicine?”

of Dartmouth students Dartmouth engage in A60% vibrant global community, funded by a deep well of is research—often home to students from nearly 100 countries campus resources.languages. speaking over 90 different

InAn Dartmouth’s International Classrooms, Student Discovers a Poet Finds the Power His Voice of the Liberal Arts Edgar Morales ’24

“The flexible liberal arts system helped me discover subjects I’d never considered before.”

Applying Human-Centered A Captaina and Commander Lens to Medical Follows in Research Her Father’s Footsteps Moses Matanda ’25

60% of Dartmouth students engage in Dartmouth will not include loans as part research—often funded bycreated a deep to well of of the financial aid award meet campus resources. need. a student’s demonstrated

“I ended up publishing my first two papers based on my senior honors thesis—work that was funded by grants I accessed as an undergraduate.”

— Professor Thayer

Edgar Morales ’24 entered Dartmouth intending to study engi“I grew but up instead in a small seaside town whose“Leaving industryLos centered neering, found comfort in poetry.

Angearound coal mining through thea big ’90s,” Luke Grayson ’25 says. les and moving to Hanover was shift.

I experienced feelings “Education bigpoetry, focus in the area.to I always wanted to of nostalgiawas andnever guilt.a In I attempt relive memories: go somewhere where others I couldjoyous; find more room grow.” some of them painful, some real,to others imagined.”

The2023, concept a liberalofarts college Poets was unfamiliar Luke In The of Academy American recognizedtoEdgar until he Dartmouth. describing value of a Swim. liberal with its discovered Most Promising Young In Poet Award the for his poem artsjoins education, underscores its emphasis ensuring He a cohortLuke of renowned writers, includingonSylvia Plath that and students learn how think encouraging them to take courseOcean Vuong, who to first wonbyrecognition through the program. work that wrote spans his a wide variety of of disciplines.

“Imagine sitting Edgar first collection poems after reading The at a dinner table with history’s greatest scholars,” says.Latinx “The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo in Professor Marcela DiheBlasi’s product of a liberal arts education is aPoet person who sit at Intergenerational Literature class. “The X was thecould first place head of such a tableProfessor and quite on any and Ithe saw myself in poetry.

Dicomfortably Blasi helpedtake me understand all of Latinx the attending in enthusiastic conversation, no matter how literatureparty operates within academia.” the Edgar’s topic. I senior arrivedthesis at Dartmouth intending to major in engineerproject, which centered around the term ing, but the flexible liberal arts systemofhelped me discover sub“motherland,” explored the redress memories lost through jects I’d neverInconsidered immigration. support ofbefore.” his research, the English and creative Lukedepartment now plans to pursue economics major taken writing funded hisantravel to Mexico to and meethas some of classes in computer science, his family for the first time. Italian, history, linguistics, and more.

He says theEdgar senseisof community he’safound in of Hanover hasdegree made Today, working towards Master Fine Arts Dartmouth like that a second “There’s such intense in poetry. “Ifeel believe poetryhome. is for anybody.

I’m aan poet, and campus,” Luke says. international student, Itogetherness can say thaton with confidence now.“As As an long as I’m writing and I’ve found a strong community reading, that’s enough for me.” of friends to help me through.

Dartmouth has allowed me the option of redefining myself.”

A Biological StudyingAnthropologist Factors at Studies Play How in the Environments Polls Shape Our Carson GohHealth ’25 he/him/his Hometown: Nashua, New Hampshire Zaneta Thayer ’08 Majors: Majors:Quantitative Quantitative Social Social Science Science and & Government Government she/her/hers Associate Professor of Anthropology

In 2004, Professor Together, Carson Zaneta Goh ’25 “Zane” and Jason ThayerBarabas ’08—then ’93a high haveschool been student froma Cottage researching wide spectrum Grove, Oregon—was of topics within in the American thick of polher college itics.

Professor search. Barabas, “When I an flew expert out for in political Dartmouth’s knowledge, admitteddelibstudent program, eration, publicI met policy, kids and from democratic all over the country performance, and the world. is the I loved that director of Dartmouth’s I’d be surrounded Rockefeller by soCenter many different for Publicperspectives Policy and and Social the experiences.”

Sciences.

Professor Thayerup wasinquickly drawn to a double in biolCarson: Growing New Hampshire, I was major interested in ogy and anthropology, a field centered around the scientific study learning how howredistricting—the redistricting—theprocess process of drawing of drawing electoral electoral disof humanity.

Today, she is ainbiological anthropologist who studies trict district boundaries—is boundaries—is done done this in this veryvery politically politically active active state. state.

So, how and why early life environments shape human biology and while So, while taking taking Professor Professor Barabas’ Barabas’ classclass Polling, Polling, Public Public Opinion, Opinion, and health outcomes.

Recently, she Ihas been analyzing howabout maternal Public and Public Policy Policy my first-year my first-year fall, fall, approached I approached him about him my deep my depression impacts the production of the stress hormone cortisol interest deep interest in polling in polling and data, andand data, he and brought he brought me on asme a research on as a in both mothers and their babies. assistant. research assistant.

Her Dartmouth experience, she says, was transformational Professor Barabas: Carson is a great example how for her future research on psychosocial stress of and theDartmouth effects of undergraduates can historical get involved with that really up interest racism, poverty, and trauma ontopics health.

“I ended pubthem. lessons andon has ablehonors to apply them lishing He myabsorbed first two the papers based mybeen senior thesis— in ourthat research projects, in other courses,asand most recently, work was funded by grants I accessed an undergraduate. through major scholarships that he’s won collabThat wastwo foundational to my subsequent careertoaspursue a researcher, orative We’re studying a candidate’s age impacts and I tryresearch. to pay that forward withhow my students.” public support for that person in office, among other topics.

“If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.”

Carson: Dartmouth fosters students who are interested in making change through public service, and that’s where I see myself.

I hope to go to law school after graduation. If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.

—Carson Goh ’25

Dartmouth is need-blind meets 100% The average scholarship forand a member of the of demonstrated financial need for allamount students, Dartmouth Class of 2028 is $71,582—an that oftotal citizenship. equals nearlyregardless 80% of the cost of attendance.

Students receiving need-based financial aid pay Dartmouth the same net does price not for include a termloans on a as Dartmouth part off-campus of the financial study program aid award as they created would to meet afor student’s a term in demonstrated Hanover. need.

AResearching Mushroom Hunter Soil Energy and Justice Ecologist Study theSouth Synergies in the Global of Nadine Plants and Fungi Lorini Formiga ’25

“The infrastructure that supports undergraduate researchers at Dartmouth is unparalleled.”

—Dr. Kelly

she/her/hers Hometown: Porto Alegre, Brazil Liam Nokes ’25 Major: Geography he/him/his Minors: Environmental Studies and Hometown: Arlington, Massachusetts Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies Majors: Environmental Studies and Mathematics modified with Biology

he/him/his Hometown: Dallas, Texas Karina Mitchell ’23 Major: Biomedical Engineering she/her/hers Minor: African and African American Studies Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Major: Biomedical Engineering Minors: Sociology and Psychology

Nadine Lorini Formiga ’25 and geography researcher Dr. Sarah Kelly are studying energy transitions in within LatinIndigenous America. communiLiam Nokes ’25 and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies ties in Latin America.

Dr. Kelly: Energy justice is a framework that aims to diagnose Bala Chaudhary are studying mycorrhizae—the symbiotic associDr. Kelly:within injustices Energyenergy justicesystems is a framework and support that energy aims totransitions diagnose ations between plants and fungi—and their impact on ecosysinjustices away from within a fossil-fuel energy systems economy and and support towards energy a low-carbon, transitions tems at a global scale. away from a economy. regenerative fossil-fuel At economy Dartmouth’s and towards Energy aJustice low-carbon, Clinic, regenerative we give students economy. across At all disciplines Dartmouth’s theEnergy tools toJustice ethically Clinic, and Professor Chaudhary: My lab is tracking the aerial dispersal we give students meaningfully conduct across research all disciplines that serves the community tools to ethically needs.and of mycorrhizal fungi at 20 different sites across the country. We meaningfully conduct research that serves community needs.

Nadine: from to study imporneed a lotI received of handsfunding to process theDartmouth samples from thesethe sites, and Nadine: tance of I transnational received funding solidarity from networks to among study Indigenous the importhat’s where undergraduates like Dartmouth Liam come in. tance ofaround groups transnational matters solidarity of energynetworks justice. My among research Indigenous focuses groups on theWhen around study I oflearned matters alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice.approach My research to combinfocuses Liam: about mycorrhizae, I was hooked.

I’ve on ing the understandings study of alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice andapproach food sovereignty to combinin learned to process DNA samples and examine mycorrhizae, soil, ing southern justice and food in and understandings roots.Brazil.

Recently, of I’veenergy been working with Dr. sovereignty Chaudhary to southern Brazil. create a database of mycorrhizal fungal spore traits.

Dr. Kelly: The infrastructure that supports undergraduate res­

Moses Matanda ’25 has been tinkering with new ways to bridge the gap between technology and medicine. “I knew that IWhen wanted to pursue medicine of the health problems asked about the roots ofbecause her military and academic purmy family faced,” he ’23 remembers.

“I started ‘Howacan suits, Karina Mitchell immediately thinksthinking, of her father, civilI bring the currently best of engineering intoU.S. medicine?’” engineer serving in the Army. “I have a core memresearch through the up FirsttoYear in ory Moses of my dove Dad’s into deployment, taking him the Research airport and Engineering Experience,then a program that offers first-year seeing him leave—and the joy of him coming home undersafe,” graduates she says. early exposure to hands-on work and mentorship in engineering.

With the of Dartmouth Engineering faculty, Karina followed in support the footsteps of her father and grandfaMoses of a team that worked to improve a neonatal ther, a was Navypart veteran, as Company Commander of Dartmouth’s continuous positive airwayCorps pressure (CPAP)a interface.

He later went Reserve Officers’ Training (ROTC), program that prepares on to support histo peers as a lead tutor Emerging college students become officers in for theDartmouth U.S. military.

Karina Engineers, helpstraining aspiringand engineering majorsscience build a classes strong underwentwhich intensive took military academic in their prerequisite courses. along withfoundation her Dartmouth classes.

“The Army tries really hard to Asan a inclusive junior, Moses applied Dartmouth’s Geisel School of build culture, and sotodoes Dartmouth,” Karina says.

Medicine Early Assurance which identifies Karinathrough was alsoitsthe co-captain of Program, the women’s varsity basoutstanding foron admission following ketball team,Dartmouth where shejuniors focused creatingto a Geisel community and their undergraduate This fall, he will Geisel’s a culture.

“A pillar ofstudies. my basketball career hasjoin been leavingClass this of 2029. place better than I found it. That starts by helping people become Moses credits Dartmouth’s liberal arts curriculum—which accustomed to living a championship lifestyle.”

When not on the encourages students to Karina take classes widein range of court or in the classroom, studiedacross wounda care Assistant subjects—with pushing him new academic directions. Lab. “After Professor of Engineering KatieinHixon’s Tissue Engineering taking an African African when American Studies class, I decided Karina marked and a milestone she was commissioned into that I wanted know history. Iffrom I want to better the Army just to one day more prior about to her my graduation Dartmouth serve peopleShe in my future, I need tograduate know about what happened last spring. plans to complete work in biomedical in the past.” before pursuing a career as an orthopedic trauma engineering surgeon in the military.

earchers Dr. Kelly:atThe Dartmouth infrastructure is unparalleled. that supports Dartmouth undergraduate has worldres­ Professor The lab isand collaborative, not earchers class faculty, atChaudhary: Dartmouth staff, and students, is unparalleled. the College Dartmouth hascompetitive. always has worldhad The interact understanding thathas rising tideshad lift classstudents undergraduate faculty, staff, education andwith students, atanthe center and theofCollege its mission. always all boats.

In my lab, undergraduates, PhD students, technical proundergraduate education at the center of Iitshad mission.

Nadine: Before comingallto Dartmouth, a very abstract fessionals, and postdocs learn from one another.

Nadine: Beforeofcoming understanding research. to Now, Dartmouth, I wantI to hadbea avery researcher! abstract understanding One ofWe mytalk biggest research. takeaways Now, from I the want tolab beJustice a researcher!

Clinic is Liam: a of lot about equity in STEM inEnergy our discussions and One that ofdiscuss my biggest only happens takeaways by listening from to Energy the communities Justice Clinicon is oftenchange questions like “What arethe the goals of our research, that ground. the change That’s a beautiful by listening lessonThe I’ll tolab take the with my on and how will only they happens make an impact?” hascommunities mademe meineven the life forever. ground.

That’s the a beautiful lesson I’ll take me in my more excited about intersection of science andwith social systems. life forever.

“The lab is collaborative, not competitive. The students interact with an understanding that rising tides lift all boats.”

— Professor Chaudhary

he/him/his Hometown: Los Angeles, California LukeLatino, Grayson ’25 Majors: Majors:Latin LatinAmerican, American, Latino,and & Caribbean CaribbeanStudies Studiesand and he/him/his English with a Concentration in Creative Writing Hometown: Seaham, England Major: Economics

“I’m a poet, and I can say that with confidence now.”

“A pillar of my basketball career has been leaving this place better than I found it.”

“How can I bring the best of engineering into medicine?”

of Dartmouth students Dartmouth engage in A60% vibrant global community, funded by a deep well of is research—often home to students from nearly 100 countries campus resources.languages. speaking over 90 different

InAn Dartmouth’s International Classrooms, Student Discovers a Poet Finds the Power His Voice of the Liberal Arts Edgar Morales ’24

“The flexible liberal arts system helped me discover subjects I’d never considered before.”

Applying Human-Centered A Captaina and Commander Lens to Medical Follows in Research Her Father’s Footsteps Moses Matanda ’25

60% of Dartmouth students engage in Dartmouth will not include loans as part research—often funded bycreated a deep to well of of the financial aid award meet campus resources. need. a student’s demonstrated

“I ended up publishing my first two papers based on my senior honors thesis—work that was funded by grants I accessed as an undergraduate.”

— Professor Thayer

Edgar Morales ’24 entered Dartmouth intending to study engi“I grew but up instead in a small seaside town whose“Leaving industryLos centered neering, found comfort in poetry.

Angearound coal mining through thea big ’90s,” Luke Grayson ’25 says. les and moving to Hanover was shift.

I experienced feelings “Education bigpoetry, focus in the area.to I always wanted to of nostalgiawas andnever guilt.a In I attempt relive memories: go somewhere where others I couldjoyous; find more room grow.” some of them painful, some real,to others imagined.”

The2023, concept a liberalofarts college Poets was unfamiliar Luke In The of Academy American recognizedtoEdgar until he Dartmouth. describing value of a Swim. liberal with its discovered Most Promising Young In Poet Award the for his poem artsjoins education, underscores its emphasis ensuring He a cohortLuke of renowned writers, includingonSylvia Plath that and students learn how think encouraging them to take courseOcean Vuong, who to first wonbyrecognition through the program. work that wrote spans his a wide variety of of disciplines.

“Imagine sitting Edgar first collection poems after reading The at a dinner table with history’s greatest scholars,” says.Latinx “The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo in Professor Marcela DiheBlasi’s product of a liberal arts education is aPoet person who sit at Intergenerational Literature class. “The X was thecould first place head of such a tableProfessor and quite on any and Ithe saw myself in poetry.

Dicomfortably Blasi helpedtake me understand all of Latinx the attending in enthusiastic conversation, no matter how literatureparty operates within academia.” the Edgar’s topic. I senior arrivedthesis at Dartmouth intending to major in engineerproject, which centered around the term ing, but the flexible liberal arts systemofhelped me discover sub“motherland,” explored the redress memories lost through jects I’d neverInconsidered immigration. support ofbefore.” his research, the English and creative Lukedepartment now plans to pursue economics major taken writing funded hisantravel to Mexico to and meethas some of classes in computer science, his family for the first time. Italian, history, linguistics, and more.

He says theEdgar senseisof community he’safound in of Hanover hasdegree made Today, working towards Master Fine Arts Dartmouth like that a second “There’s such intense in poetry. “Ifeel believe poetryhome. is for anybody.

I’m aan poet, and campus,” Luke says. international student, Itogetherness can say thaton with confidence now.“As As an long as I’m writing and I’ve found a strong community reading, that’s enough for me.” of friends to help me through.

Dartmouth has allowed me the option of redefining myself.”

A Biological StudyingAnthropologist Factors at Studies Play How in the Environments Polls Shape Our Carson GohHealth ’25 he/him/his Hometown: Nashua, New Hampshire Zaneta Thayer ’08 Majors: Majors:Quantitative Quantitative Social Social Science Science and & Government Government she/her/hers Associate Professor of Anthropology

In 2004, Professor Together, Carson Zaneta Goh ’25 “Zane” and Jason ThayerBarabas ’08—then ’93a high haveschool been student froma Cottage researching wide spectrum Grove, Oregon—was of topics within in the American thick of polher college itics.

Professor search. Barabas, “When I an flew expert out for in political Dartmouth’s knowledge, admitteddelibstudent program, eration, publicI met policy, kids and from democratic all over the country performance, and the world. is the I loved that director of Dartmouth’s I’d be surrounded Rockefeller by soCenter many different for Publicperspectives Policy and and Social the experiences.”

Sciences.

Professor Thayerup wasinquickly drawn to a double in biolCarson: Growing New Hampshire, I was major interested in ogy and anthropology, a field centered around the scientific study learning how howredistricting—the redistricting—theprocess process of drawing of drawing electoral electoral disof humanity.

Today, she is ainbiological anthropologist who studies trict district boundaries—is boundaries—is done done this in this veryvery politically politically active active state. state.

So, how and why early life environments shape human biology and while So, while taking taking Professor Professor Barabas’ Barabas’ classclass Polling, Polling, Public Public Opinion, Opinion, and health outcomes.

Recently, she Ihas been analyzing howabout maternal Public and Public Policy Policy my first-year my first-year fall, fall, approached I approached him about him my deep my depression impacts the production of the stress hormone cortisol interest deep interest in polling in polling and data, andand data, he and brought he brought me on asme a research on as a in both mothers and their babies. assistant. research assistant.

Her Dartmouth experience, she says, was transformational Professor Barabas: Carson is a great example how for her future research on psychosocial stress of and theDartmouth effects of undergraduates can historical get involved with that really up interest racism, poverty, and trauma ontopics health.

“I ended pubthem. lessons andon has ablehonors to apply them lishing He myabsorbed first two the papers based mybeen senior thesis— in ourthat research projects, in other courses,asand most recently, work was funded by grants I accessed an undergraduate. through major scholarships that he’s won collabThat wastwo foundational to my subsequent careertoaspursue a researcher, orative We’re studying a candidate’s age impacts and I tryresearch. to pay that forward withhow my students.” public support for that person in office, among other topics.

“If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.”

Carson: Dartmouth fosters students who are interested in making change through public service, and that’s where I see myself.

I hope to go to law school after graduation. If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.

—Carson Goh ’25

Dartmouth is need-blind meets 100% The average scholarship forand a member of the of demonstrated financial need for allamount students, Dartmouth Class of 2028 is $71,582—an that oftotal citizenship. equals nearlyregardless 80% of the cost of attendance.

Students receiving need-based financial aid pay Dartmouth the same net does price not for include a termloans on a as Dartmouth part off-campus of the financial study program aid award as they created would to meet afor student’s a term in demonstrated Hanover. need.

AResearching Mushroom Hunter Soil Energy and Justice Ecologist Study theSouth Synergies in the Global of Nadine Plants and Fungi Lorini Formiga ’25

“The infrastructure that supports undergraduate researchers at Dartmouth is unparalleled.”

—Dr. Kelly

she/her/hers Hometown: Porto Alegre, Brazil Liam Nokes ’25 Major: Geography he/him/his Minors: Environmental Studies and Hometown: Arlington, Massachusetts Latin American, Latino, & Caribbean Studies Majors: Environmental Studies and Mathematics modified with Biology

he/him/his Hometown: Dallas, Texas Karina Mitchell ’23 Major: Biomedical Engineering she/her/hers Minor: African and African American Studies Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Major: Biomedical Engineering Minors: Sociology and Psychology

Nadine Lorini Formiga ’25 and geography researcher Dr. Sarah Kelly are studying energy transitions in within LatinIndigenous America. communiLiam Nokes ’25 and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies ties in Latin America.

Dr. Kelly: Energy justice is a framework that aims to diagnose Bala Chaudhary are studying mycorrhizae—the symbiotic associDr. Kelly:within injustices Energyenergy justicesystems is a framework and support that energy aims totransitions diagnose ations between plants and fungi—and their impact on ecosysinjustices away from within a fossil-fuel energy systems economy and and support towards energy a low-carbon, transitions tems at a global scale. away from a economy. regenerative fossil-fuel At economy Dartmouth’s and towards Energy aJustice low-carbon, Clinic, regenerative we give students economy. across At all disciplines Dartmouth’s theEnergy tools toJustice ethically Clinic, and Professor Chaudhary: My lab is tracking the aerial dispersal we give students meaningfully conduct across research all disciplines that serves the community tools to ethically needs.and of mycorrhizal fungi at 20 different sites across the country. We meaningfully conduct research that serves community needs.

Nadine: from to study imporneed a lotI received of handsfunding to process theDartmouth samples from thesethe sites, and Nadine: tance of I transnational received funding solidarity from networks to among study Indigenous the importhat’s where undergraduates like Dartmouth Liam come in. tance ofaround groups transnational matters solidarity of energynetworks justice. My among research Indigenous focuses groups on theWhen around study I oflearned matters alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice.approach My research to combinfocuses Liam: about mycorrhizae, I was hooked.

I’ve on ing the understandings study of alimergia, of energy a grassroots justice andapproach food sovereignty to combinin learned to process DNA samples and examine mycorrhizae, soil, ing southern justice and food in and understandings roots.Brazil.

Recently, of I’veenergy been working with Dr. sovereignty Chaudhary to southern Brazil. create a database of mycorrhizal fungal spore traits.

Dr. Kelly: The infrastructure that supports undergraduate res­

Moses Matanda ’25 has been tinkering with new ways to bridge the gap between technology and medicine. “I knew that IWhen wanted to pursue medicine of the health problems asked about the roots ofbecause her military and academic purmy family faced,” he ’23 remembers.

“I started ‘Howacan suits, Karina Mitchell immediately thinksthinking, of her father, civilI bring the currently best of engineering intoU.S. medicine?’” engineer serving in the Army. “I have a core memresearch through the up FirsttoYear in ory Moses of my dove Dad’s into deployment, taking him the Research airport and Engineering Experience,then a program that offers first-year seeing him leave—and the joy of him coming home undersafe,” graduates she says. early exposure to hands-on work and mentorship in engineering.

With the of Dartmouth Engineering faculty, Karina followed in support the footsteps of her father and grandfaMoses of a team that worked to improve a neonatal ther, a was Navypart veteran, as Company Commander of Dartmouth’s continuous positive airwayCorps pressure (CPAP)a interface.

He later went Reserve Officers’ Training (ROTC), program that prepares on to support histo peers as a lead tutor Emerging college students become officers in for theDartmouth U.S. military.

Karina Engineers, helpstraining aspiringand engineering majorsscience build a classes strong underwentwhich intensive took military academic in their prerequisite courses. along withfoundation her Dartmouth classes.

“The Army tries really hard to Asan a inclusive junior, Moses applied Dartmouth’s Geisel School of build culture, and sotodoes Dartmouth,” Karina says.

Medicine Early Assurance which identifies Karinathrough was alsoitsthe co-captain of Program, the women’s varsity basoutstanding foron admission following ketball team,Dartmouth where shejuniors focused creatingto a Geisel community and their undergraduate This fall, he will Geisel’s a culture.

“A pillar ofstudies. my basketball career hasjoin been leavingClass this of 2029. place better than I found it. That starts by helping people become Moses credits Dartmouth’s liberal arts curriculum—which accustomed to living a championship lifestyle.”

When not on the encourages students to Karina take classes widein range of court or in the classroom, studiedacross wounda care Assistant subjects—with pushing him new academic directions. Lab. “After Professor of Engineering KatieinHixon’s Tissue Engineering taking an African African when American Studies class, I decided Karina marked and a milestone she was commissioned into that I wanted know history. Iffrom I want to better the Army just to one day more prior about to her my graduation Dartmouth serve peopleShe in my future, I need tograduate know about what happened last spring. plans to complete work in biomedical in the past.” before pursuing a career as an orthopedic trauma engineering surgeon in the military.

earchers Dr. Kelly:atThe Dartmouth infrastructure is unparalleled. that supports Dartmouth undergraduate has worldres­ Professor The lab isand collaborative, not earchers class faculty, atChaudhary: Dartmouth staff, and students, is unparalleled. the College Dartmouth hascompetitive. always has worldhad The interact understanding thathas rising tideshad lift classstudents undergraduate faculty, staff, education andwith students, atanthe center and theofCollege its mission. always all boats.

In my lab, undergraduates, PhD students, technical proundergraduate education at the center of Iitshad mission.

Nadine: Before comingallto Dartmouth, a very abstract fessionals, and postdocs learn from one another.

Nadine: Beforeofcoming understanding research. to Now, Dartmouth, I wantI to hadbea avery researcher! abstract understanding One ofWe mytalk biggest research. takeaways Now, from I the want tolab beJustice a researcher!

Clinic is Liam: a of lot about equity in STEM inEnergy our discussions and One that ofdiscuss my biggest only happens takeaways by listening from to Energy the communities Justice Clinicon is oftenchange questions like “What arethe the goals of our research, that ground. the change That’s a beautiful by listening lessonThe I’ll tolab take the with my on and how will only they happens make an impact?” hascommunities mademe meineven the life forever. ground.

That’s the a beautiful lesson I’ll take me in my more excited about intersection of science andwith social systems. life forever.

“The lab is collaborative, not competitive. The students interact with an understanding that rising tides lift all boats.”

— Professor Chaudhary

he/him/his Hometown: Los Angeles, California LukeLatino, Grayson ’25 Majors: Majors:Latin LatinAmerican, American, Latino,and & Caribbean CaribbeanStudies Studiesand and he/him/his English with a Concentration in Creative Writing Hometown: Seaham, England Major: Economics

“I’m a poet, and I can say that with confidence now.”

“A pillar of my basketball career has been leaving this place better than I found it.”

“How can I bring the best of engineering into medicine?”

of Dartmouth students Dartmouth engage in A60% vibrant global community, funded by a deep well of is research—often home to students from nearly 100 countries campus resources.languages. speaking over 90 different

InAn Dartmouth’s International Classrooms, Student Discovers a Poet Finds the Power His Voice of the Liberal Arts Edgar Morales ’24

“The flexible liberal arts system helped me discover subjects I’d never considered before.”

Applying Human-Centered A Captaina and Commander Lens to Medical Follows in Research Her Father’s Footsteps Moses Matanda ’25

60% of Dartmouth students engage in Dartmouth will not include loans as part research—often funded bycreated a deep to well of of the financial aid award meet campus resources. need. a student’s demonstrated

“I ended up publishing my first two papers based on my senior honors thesis—work that was funded by grants I accessed as an undergraduate.”

— Professor Thayer

Edgar Morales ’24 entered Dartmouth intending to study engi“I grew but up instead in a small seaside town whose“Leaving industryLos centered neering, found comfort in poetry.

Angearound coal mining through thea big ’90s,” Luke Grayson ’25 says. les and moving to Hanover was shift.

I experienced feelings “Education bigpoetry, focus in the area.to I always wanted to of nostalgiawas andnever guilt.a In I attempt relive memories: go somewhere where others I couldjoyous; find more room grow.” some of them painful, some real,to others imagined.”

The2023, concept a liberalofarts college Poets was unfamiliar Luke In The of Academy American recognizedtoEdgar until he Dartmouth. describing value of a Swim. liberal with its discovered Most Promising Young In Poet Award the for his poem artsjoins education, underscores its emphasis ensuring He a cohortLuke of renowned writers, includingonSylvia Plath that and students learn how think encouraging them to take courseOcean Vuong, who to first wonbyrecognition through the program. work that wrote spans his a wide variety of of disciplines.

“Imagine sitting Edgar first collection poems after reading The at a dinner table with history’s greatest scholars,” says.Latinx “The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo in Professor Marcela DiheBlasi’s product of a liberal arts education is aPoet person who sit at Intergenerational Literature class. “The X was thecould first place head of such a tableProfessor and quite on any and Ithe saw myself in poetry.

Dicomfortably Blasi helpedtake me understand all of Latinx the attending in enthusiastic conversation, no matter how literatureparty operates within academia.” the Edgar’s topic. I senior arrivedthesis at Dartmouth intending to major in engineerproject, which centered around the term ing, but the flexible liberal arts systemofhelped me discover sub“motherland,” explored the redress memories lost through jects I’d neverInconsidered immigration. support ofbefore.” his research, the English and creative Lukedepartment now plans to pursue economics major taken writing funded hisantravel to Mexico to and meethas some of classes in computer science, his family for the first time. Italian, history, linguistics, and more.

He says theEdgar senseisof community he’safound in of Hanover hasdegree made Today, working towards Master Fine Arts Dartmouth like that a second “There’s such intense in poetry. “Ifeel believe poetryhome. is for anybody.

I’m aan poet, and campus,” Luke says. international student, Itogetherness can say thaton with confidence now.“As As an long as I’m writing and I’ve found a strong community reading, that’s enough for me.” of friends to help me through.

Dartmouth has allowed me the option of redefining myself.”

A Biological StudyingAnthropologist Factors at Studies Play How in the Environments Polls Shape Our Carson GohHealth ’25 he/him/his Hometown: Nashua, New Hampshire Zaneta Thayer ’08 Majors: Majors:Quantitative Quantitative Social Social Science Science and & Government Government she/her/hers Associate Professor of Anthropology

In 2004, Professor Together, Carson Zaneta Goh ’25 “Zane” and Jason ThayerBarabas ’08—then ’93a high haveschool been student froma Cottage researching wide spectrum Grove, Oregon—was of topics within in the American thick of polher college itics.

Professor search. Barabas, “When I an flew expert out for in political Dartmouth’s knowledge, admitteddelibstudent program, eration, publicI met policy, kids and from democratic all over the country performance, and the world. is the I loved that director of Dartmouth’s I’d be surrounded Rockefeller by soCenter many different for Publicperspectives Policy and and Social the experiences.”

Sciences.

Professor Thayerup wasinquickly drawn to a double in biolCarson: Growing New Hampshire, I was major interested in ogy and anthropology, a field centered around the scientific study learning how howredistricting—the redistricting—theprocess process of drawing of drawing electoral electoral disof humanity.

Today, she is ainbiological anthropologist who studies trict district boundaries—is boundaries—is done done this in this veryvery politically politically active active state. state.

So, how and why early life environments shape human biology and while So, while taking taking Professor Professor Barabas’ Barabas’ classclass Polling, Polling, Public Public Opinion, Opinion, and health outcomes.

Recently, she Ihas been analyzing howabout maternal Public and Public Policy Policy my first-year my first-year fall, fall, approached I approached him about him my deep my depression impacts the production of the stress hormone cortisol interest deep interest in polling in polling and data, andand data, he and brought he brought me on asme a research on as a in both mothers and their babies. assistant. research assistant.

Her Dartmouth experience, she says, was transformational Professor Barabas: Carson is a great example how for her future research on psychosocial stress of and theDartmouth effects of undergraduates can historical get involved with that really up interest racism, poverty, and trauma ontopics health.

“I ended pubthem. lessons andon has ablehonors to apply them lishing He myabsorbed first two the papers based mybeen senior thesis— in ourthat research projects, in other courses,asand most recently, work was funded by grants I accessed an undergraduate. through major scholarships that he’s won collabThat wastwo foundational to my subsequent careertoaspursue a researcher, orative We’re studying a candidate’s age impacts and I tryresearch. to pay that forward withhow my students.” public support for that person in office, among other topics.

“If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.”

Carson: Dartmouth fosters students who are interested in making change through public service, and that’s where I see myself.

I hope to go to law school after graduation. If you value small classrooms and close partnerships with professors, Dartmouth is the place for you.

—Carson Goh ’25

Dartmouth is need-blind meets 100% The average scholarship forand a member of the of demonstrated financial need for allamount students, Dartmouth Class of 2028 is $71,582—an that oftotal citizenship. equals nearlyregardless 80% of the cost of attendance.

Students receiving need-based financial aid pay Dartmouth the same net does price not for include a termloans on a as Dartmouth part off-campus of the financial study program aid award as they created would to meet afor student’s a term in demonstrated Hanover. need.

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