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Academic Clusters

Through faculty collaboration and targeted hiring, academic clusters provide the critical mass and spectrum of expertise necessary to shape and advance the understanding of complex problems, emerging issues, and future societal challenges. By bringing together diverse and multi-disciplinary faculty teams, these cohorts of scholars focus on new intellectual themes and questions that cut across disciplines, departments, and schools.

Cluster themes provide the basis for new courses and curricula as well as new research opportunities, drawing on existing strengths and emerging areas of discovery to establish points of distinction, invigorating intellectual engagement and enhancing Dartmouth's impact in the world.

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    Jacqueline Wernimont, Distinguished Chair of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster speaks with a student in the Social Justice Lab.

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    Tor Wager, Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience and Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience lab, leads Dartmouth's Breaking the Neural Code academic cluster.

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    Allie Martin, Assistant Professor of Music, of the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement academic cluster.

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    Rahul Sarpeshkar, Thomas E. Kurtz Professor, Professor of Engineering, Physics, Microbiology & Immunology; and Molecular & Systems Biology, of the William H. Neukom Academic Cluster in Computational Science.

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    James Bliska (second from right), holder of the Philip J. Hanlon Third Century Distinguished Professorship in Personalized Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis, in the Bliska Laboratory at the Geisel School of Medicine.