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News
April 28, 2020
PhD students Linta Joseph and Ethan Williams both from the Ramanthan Lab were awarded fellowships.
March 03, 2020
Dartmouth College program bring quantum computing to Hanover High School students. Here Dartmouth graduate student Kanav Setia teaches a class in quantum computing to seniors at Hanover High.
February 26, 2020
NASA has announced plans to support an upcoming Dartmouth College's CubeSat project: Realistic Electron Atmospheric Loss...
February 05, 2020
“The explosion of small satellite projects is going to provide new opportunities for science well beyond what was envisioned in the decadal survey,” says Professor Robyn Millan...
December 10, 2019
Sarah Pearl '20, a double major in environmental studies and physics from Los Angeles, has been named a Marshall Scholar. She will use the scholarship to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom, at the University of Reading and the University of Oxford....
November 27, 2019
In electing Caldwell as a fellow, AAAS cited his "array of distinguished theoretical contributions to cosmology, especially in the study of dark energy." A theoretical physicist, Caldwell studies the expansion of the universe....
September 30, 2019
Dartmouth's Physics and Astronomy Department will cover registration and transportation costs for selected students. If you register ( deadline 10/4), contact Profs. Isler or Prof. Newton for more information....
September 19, 2019
Professor Isler delivered the 2019 Shared Experience lecture discussing the recent historic black hole shadow image as a metaphor for the pursuit of other unknowns on our journey. (Photo by Robert Gill)
July 26, 2019
Professor Newton's group presented a discovery of a transiting planet larger than Neptune but smaller than Saturn, orbiting one of the brightest young stars known. Aged almost 45 million years of old, the star and its planet could give significant data on how planetary bodies form....