by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
That proposal by Dartmouth students to grow kale in greenhouses on Mars that I mentioned last week impressed NASA, it seems: A team from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering that designed a greenhouse for Mars has been announced the winner of the 2019 NASA BIG...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire is growing either slowly or quickly, depending on how you look at it. But either way, it is people moving here, not people having babies, who are making the difference. New Census Bureau estimates say that the state grew by 6,700 people between July 2017...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Twenty college teams from Canada, India and across the U.S. will be at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon next week for the 14th Formula Hybrid contest, which is sort of like FIRST Robotics crossed with NASCAR. Eight hybrid and 12 electric vehicles will need...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
Eric Fossum of Dartmouth will be the keynote speaker at the 31st Entrepreneur of the Year awards in New Hampshire. At professor at Thayer School of Engineering and director of its Ph.D. innovation program, he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for his role in helping...
by David Brooks | Apr 22, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
It was another packed house for the monthly Science Cafe NH discussion in Concord at its new home in the Makris Lobster and Steak House on Rt. 106. Good thing we require people to reserve seats in advance now or there would have been fist-fights in the hallway. I...
by David Brooks | Apr 18, 2019 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: See a comment at the end of the story saying the name is a coincidence. The New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources has launched a new online tool for historic records research called Enhanced Mapping and Management Information Tool or EMMIT. It...
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