Jedidah Isler, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has an unusual job: She studies supermassive black holes in space, reports PBS. “She’s also one of the few black women in astrophysics and is trying to change that,” PBS says.
On a trip to South America, a class meets with finance ministers, CEOs, economists.
Filmmakers Phil Lord '97 and Chris Miller '97 are continuing their long line of successful projects with their recent hit, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The two first combined their artistic talents and vision at Dartmouth in professor David Ehrlich's animation class, writing and animating movies. This creative classroom experience is still having an impact on how they work today. When discussing their highly-creative take on this familiar comic book character, Miller says, “Like most scientific experiments in a lab, the first 27 times it doesn’t work.
The honor is considered the highest professional distinction for academic inventors.
Honors go to Chee, Hicks Pries, Sizochenko, Swann, and Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.