At the center of her work is the question of health: what it is, who it's for, and who decides. Working in a rural, Zulu-speaking area of South Africa, Abby understands health as always simultaneously material and symbolic; that is, she sees health as the interplay between physiological processes (bacteria interacting with cells), cultural contexts (the views and values of the community in which a person lives), social networks (family and friends on the one hand and health care on the other), and political-economic structures. To understand health, she takes an interdisciplinary approach that draws on the work of geographers, anthropologists, historians, epidemiologists, and medical scientists....

Jaclyn Hatala Matthes studies the duality of greenhouse gases during wetland restoration , their causes, effects, and potential solutions.

Jaclyn Hatala Matthes is a new assistant professor in the Department of Geography and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Biology.

Research, says Celeste Winston ’14, is a freeing form of scholarship. “Undergraduate research has given me the ability to explore my interests with the assistance of Dartmouth faculty and with the inspiration of some of my fellow Dartmouth students.”

When a farmer and a climate scientist talk about the weather, they’re not just passing time—it’s serious business.