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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.

    The Breaking the Neural Code Cluster advances understanding of how the mind is encoded in patterns of activity among billions of cells, leading to the neurological equivalent of decoding the human genome.

    Faculty:

    • Tor Wager
      Diana L. Taylor 1977 Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience
      Director of the Brain Imaging Center
    • John D. Murray
      Gregg L. Engles 1979 Professorship
      Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences

    The Globalization Cluster represents one of the largest groups of scholars anywhere devoted to the study of globalization, a force with unprecedented growth in the cross-border movement of ideas, capital, products, and people. Globalization has created opportunities for billions of people while simultaneously threatening economic, political, and social systems.

    Faculty:

    • Treb Allen
      Distinguished Professor of Economics and Globalization
    • Davin Chor
      Associate Professor of Business Administration; Harvey H. Bundy III T'68 Faculty Fellow
    • Yang-Yang Zhou
      Assistant Professor of Government

    Capitalizing on Dartmouth's strengths in engineering and polar studies, the Changing Polar Regions focuses on the complex societal and environmental impacts of climate change and increased energy production in Arctic regions and beyond. This cluster will capitalize on Dartmouth's interdisciplinary approach to study the science and engineering of shifting polar environments.

    Faculty:

    • Mathieu Morlighem
      Evans Family Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences
    • Colin Meyer
      Assistant Professor of Engineering; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences

    The digital humanities at Dartmouth delve into the complex social and ethical dimensions of digital technologies, exploring questions that address the digital class divide and the definition of "human" in an age of implantable and wearable computer devices. The Cluster is breaking barriers between disciplines and furthering fundamental work in social justice.

    Faculty:

    • Jacque Wernimont
      Distinguished Chair, Digital Humanities and Social Engagement; Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Film and Media Studies
    • Alison Martin
      Assistant Professor of Music
    • Roopika Risam
      Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Comparative Literature

    Dartmouth is working at the forefront of new mathematical models to address a spectrum of real-world challenges—in health, science, engineering, public policy, and business. The Byrne Cluster seeks to bring international recognition to Dartmouth by building on existing strengths in decision-making through applied mathematics, creating a critical mass of academic excellence in the Department of Mathematics, Tuck and Thayer, and deepening collaboration across schools.

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    Cybersecurity spans a vast sweep of territory. Everything from software programs to networks, medical devices, utilities, and vehicles can—and will be—hacked. Responding to global cybersecurity challenges requires rigorous research and analysis. Dartmouth is uniquely positioned to lead in this arena through its deep expertise in the fields of computer science, engineering, government, neuroscience, and sociology.

    Faculty:

    • Sergey Bratus
      The Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cyber Security, Technology, and Society
      Associate Professor of Computer Science
    • Adam Breuer
      The Dartmouth College Professor in Cyber Security, Technology, and Society
      Assistant Professor of Government and of Computer Science
    • Christophe Hauser
      Speers Family Professor
      Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    With the establishment of the Philip Hanlon and Gail Gentes Cluster for Personalized Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis, Dartmouth is leading the way in discovering and developing personalized medicine and treatments for cystic fibrosis and other fungal and bacterial lung infections. Cluster faculty and researchers are committed to developing more effective therapeutic strategies that will be made possible by breakthroughs in alleviating bacterial infections, microbiota dysbiosis, and generic errors in cystic fibrosis.

    Faculty:

    • James Bliska 
      Philip J. Hanlon Third Century Distinguished Professor in Personalized Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis
      Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
    • Ben Ross
      Philip J. Hanlon First Century Professor in Personalized Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis
      Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
      Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
    • Jennifer Bomberger
      Philip J. Hanlon Second Century Professor in Personalized Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis
      Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

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    The Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Academic Cluster in Health Care Delivery is focused on providing rapid, scalable, and transformational redesign of health care services by creating more efficient, effective, and sustainable systems. World-class faculty are collaborating on solutions in informatics, implementation, and patient engagement. This multidisciplinary approach will deepen the partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock and align health entities across The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice (TDI), Geisel, Tuck, Thayer, and Arts & Sciences.

    • Carrie Colla
      The Susan J. and Richard M. Levy 1960 Distinguished Chair in Health Care Delivery

    Computational methods and tools are fundamental to scholarly endeavor—and they are enabling researchers in the Neukom Cluster, in collaboration with the Neukom Institute and colleagues across Dartmouth, to push the boundaries in the fields of physical and life sciences, engineering, and medicine.

    Faculty:

    • Rahul Sarpeshkar
      Thomas E. Kurtz Distinguished Professor; Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Physics, and Molecular and Systems Biology
    • Daniel Schultz
      John G. Kemeny Professorship
      Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
    • Paul Robustelli
      James O. Freedman Professorship
      Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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