VOL. CLXXIII NO. 8
PARTLY CLOUDY
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Two named Schwarzman Scholars
A HEALTHY ARCTIC REGION
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Jacob Gaba ’16 and Jordyn Turner ‘16 were announced as part of the inaugural 111-member Schwarzman scholar class on Monday. As scholars, they will participate in a oneyear fully funded master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The scholars were selected from a pool of 3,054 applicants, giving the program a 3.7 percent acceptance rate, global director of admissions Robert Garris said. Gaba, a computer science modified with digital arts major,
Okalik Eegeesiak, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council International, and author Sheila WattCloutier, lead a public lecture on the health of the Arctic on Tuesday.
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DALI lab partners with NASA on virtual reality
B y AMANDA ZHOU The Dartmouth Staff
Funded by grant money from NASA’s National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Dartmouth professors and students are working to develop virtual reality technology to solve the psychological problems experienced during long-duration space flight. The project, called Psych VR, is being conducted by a group of investigators that includes two professors from the Geisel
School of Medicine and DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center, Jay Buckey and Mark Hegel, and computer science professor Lorie Loeb, from the Dartmouth Digital Arts Leadership Innovation lab. Loeb said that the project’s mission, exploring “the therapeutic potential of virtual reality,” excites her. She noted that the immersive virtual experience needed to create “an escape” for those experiencing long-duration space flight or other extreme situations like being in the
Arctic could be a “real way to trick the brain and get people thinking they’re somewhere else.” Buckey said they hope to create a virtual “immersive environment” based on attention restoration theory, the idea that people are able to function more productively after spending time in nature. He said that he has been interested in exploring how to make long-duration space flight possible. He said that one of the challenges to this are the psychological effects
of extended space travel. “[Virtual reality] looks like it could be a promising way to address some of the problems with long duration space flight and being in isolated and confined environments,” he said. Buckey said he realized virtual reality could be a solution through discussions with DALI. DALI creates video content and shoots footage using 14 GoPro cameras — seven to simulate each SEE NASA PAGE 5
Skinny Pancake to open creperie in Hanover B y DANIEL KIM
The Dartmouth Staff
Burlington, Vermont-based creperie Skinny Pancake will be opening its first out-of-state location in Hanover, replacing the space previously occupied by Essentials for Men and the Chocolate Shop in the Hanover Park building on Lebanon Street. Owner Benjy Adler said that the scheduled date of the opening is April 15. Adler said that the restaurant tries to source most of its food from the local community. In their latest audit in Burlington last October, he said
that 77.1 percent, by dollar, of the restaurant’s food, beverage, raw and value-added products were local. The restaurant also donates one percent of its revenue to environmental nonprofit organizations. “We’re looking to disprove the thesis that a chain is just an octopus sucking the energy and money out of a town,” he said. “We’re trying to use capitalism to invert this concept of the ‘leaky bucket.’ This is the idea that in a town or a community, if you spend money, the money gets shipped to a corporation, which goes farther and farther away. If we can divert
the money we spend away from the global economy and keep it local, every time we can, we look for ways to do that.” A possible consideration for the restaurant is a crowd-funding campaign, where those who donate to support the opening of the Hanover location and would receive some sort of discount in exchange. Started as a food cart in 2003 on Church Street in Burlington, Vt., Skinny Pancake continued to grow in the following years. It expanded from a food cart, to a sailboat trailer to a school bus, to rental apartment
kitchens and to its first restaurant building opening in Burlington in 2007. The chain now consists of five locations including Montpelier, Burlington International Airport, Sugarbush Ski Resort and the University of Vermont. Skinny Pancake is a mission-driven local food restaurant, with a goal to “change the world by building a safer, healthier and more delicious food shed while creating everyday enjoyment that is fun and affordable,” according to their website. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, SEE CREPE PAGE 2