Biotech entrepreneur Tillman Gerngross reveals how he turns the impossible into multi-million-dollar companies.
By Karen Endicott
Chapter 1: “You Are Crazy!”
As the human genome project entered its final stages of mapping and sequencing every human gene, Tillman Gerngross was among the thousands of scientists worldwide anticipating a new era of protein-based therapeutics — drugs that could treat anemia, cure inflammatory diseases like lupus, or stop cancer in its deadly tracks.
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Students learn more than technology in Thayer School’s new Thailand exchange program.
By Kathryn LoConte
Thailand on the map. Image by Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images.
It’s on the other side of the world, and culturally, Bangkok could not be more different from Hanover, New Hampshire. But that didn’t stop Professor Francis Kennedy from establishing an undergraduate engineering exchange program with Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University — a.k.a. “Chula.” In fact, for a program that aims to broaden the perspectives of engineering students from both Thailand and Dartmouth, difference is the point.
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Professor Peter Robbie ’69 adds art to the science of meeting human needs.
By Elizabeth Kelsey
The chairs have been rearranged to make space for an impromptu stage. One by one, the actors leave their seats to join their classmates at the front of the room to enact a restaurant scene. One student eats with an imaginary knife and fork, while another stirs an unseen pot of food. Others heft invisible trays to wait on tables.
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Eight alumni discuss their perspectives on design
Interviews by Elizabeth Kelsey
Emilie Fetscher ’03 Th’04
Co-founder, Veranda Solar, San Francisco, California
Balancing chairs. Photograph courtesy of Emilie Fetscher.
Design is an amalgamation of psychological needs and desires, engineering function, tactile and visual detail, and user experience. How we interact with products and experiences is all a result of design by some individual. Design can manifest in a new way of presenting information, a new product, or a change to a common experience.
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