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Lizet Garcia '23 Awarded the Antonio Maceo Award for Racial Justice

September 13, 2023

Geography alum Lizet Garcia '23 is one of the two Mellon Mays fellows receiving Dartmouth awards for outstanding contributions to their fields. In their thesis, Garcia (who uses she/they pronouns), examined a phenomenon known as the "school-to-prison pipeline", which refers to the disproportionate funneling of youth from nonwhite and low-income backgrounds into systems of carcerality. Agatha Bordonaro writes:
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Mellon Mays Fellowships at Dartmouth Have National Impact

September 8, 2023

Geography alumni Jimena Perez '23 and Lizet Garcia '23 credit the Mellon Mays Fellowship with helping them network with graduate programs to pursue a PhD and further their research.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellow Lizet Garcia '23 Continues Research on the School to Prison Pipeline

September 8, 2023

Garcia wrote that it was important to "do the work to denaturalize these structures but at the same time work towards a better future," they said. Garcia intends to focus on ideas that "center care and love and center youth voices."
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Jimena Perez and Lizet Garcia Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

April 28, 2023

Geography Majors Jimena Perez ('23) and Lizet Garcia ('23) were among the eighteen Dartmouth students and alumni awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships for 2023
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Madeline Duhnoski '23 Attends 2022 ESRI User Conference During NASA Internship

September 27, 2022

During her summer internship with NASA, Madeline Duhnoski helped present her team's work on developing a new information hub relating to wildfire research (the Actionable Fire Science Information Hub or the AFSI Hub) at the 2022 ESRI User Conference in San Diego.
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