Celebrating A Milestone in Graduate Education at Dartmouth
This year marks a decade since the founding of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, uniting Dartmouth’s graduate and postdoctoral community under a shared vision for excellence and collaboration. Read more.
Guarini Graduate Student and Postdoc Awarded Arts Integration Grants
Yuening Cai, a graduate student in computer science, and Hayri Dortdivanlioglu, a postdoctoral fellow in studio art, are among this year’s Arts Integration Initiative Grant recipients, supporting innovative, interdisciplinary arts research across campus. Their projects range from translating solar data into immersive sound to exploring weaving as material computing. Read more.
Bacterial Hitchhikers Give Hosts Super Strength
James Winans, a doctoral student in the biological sciences, is first author on a paper published in Current Biology. The study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical treatment by corralling them into tightly packed groups. Read more.
Betting on the Underdog can Lead to (Red) Giant Returns
Artemis Theodoridis, a physics and astronomy graduate student, has created the largest catalog of red giant star ages to date, identifying more than 132,000 stars using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data. Her work strengthens efforts to reconstruct the Milky Way’s history and demonstrates the power of TESS for asteroseismology. Read more.
The Brain's Primitive 'Fear Center' Is Actually a Sophisticated Mediator
Jae Hyung Woo, a Guarini PhD candidate in psychological and brain sciences, is first author of a new Nature Communications study showing that the amygdala does more than process fear—it mediates between competing learning strategies when we make decisions under uncertainty. Read more.
Apply Now
Applications for Guarini graduate programs are now open for the 2026–27 academic year.
learn more