Assistant Professor Sean Kang says repeated use of knowledge and training play a role in memory, as well as a few other tips in this NBC News 
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Tine researches the gulf in academic success between students who live in poverty and those who don’t. “There are two aspects to that work,” she says. “We identify cognitive processes that underlie the income achievement gap, and we create interventions that address those inequities and can improve education and learning and development for all.” To that end, she and three undergraduate students are designing and assembling Build-It Boxes kits, aimed at sharpening STEM skills for 300 rural...
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WalletHub analyzed U.S. school systems to determine the top-performers, and asked a panel of researchers and experts, including Professor Jamshed Bharucha, for their insights. The findings can be found at https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/#jamshed-bharucha
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Kevin Griffee '19, one of Professor Coch's lab assistants, describes current research in the Reading Brains Lab: "Our research sheds light on how people process rhymes, and how they process reading in general, information we believe is valuable in teaching kids to read." An article about this work can be found at ...
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Professor Andrew Garrod was recognized for promoting cultural understanding through the arts. See
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I Am Where I Come From, edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor (Cornell University Press, 2017) is recommended as one of PBS Newshour Art Beat's 19 summer books that will keep you up all night reading. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/19-summer-books-will-keep-night-reading
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Sean Kang was recently awarded a grant by the National Endowment for Financial Education to investigate “Making it stick: Using cognitive science and technology to enhance the impact of financial education.”
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David Kraemer is the Principal Investigator for Dartmouth on a recent collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is a collaboration between researchers in Kraemer’s lab, along with co-investigator, James Haxby in Psychological and Brain Sciences, and researchers at three other institutions. Their research will explore "Neural and cognitive strengthening of conceptual knowledge and reasoning in classroom-based spatial education.”
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Michele Tine received a Dartmouth College, Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award for the project: The Build-It Box Program: Bringing Informal Out of-School STEM Activities to Children Living in Rural Poverty.
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Congratulations to the seven of sixteen 2017 Fulbright scholars who plan to teach English abroad next year! The story about this year’s group is on the Dartmouth homepage (seehttps://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2017/04/sixteen-students-and-alumni-offered-fulbrights?utm_source=dhome&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=...
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