Innovation and Impact

Dartmouth Arts and Sciences faculty regularly win prestigious awards and grants for their innovative research and creative projects, including major fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Mellon Foundation, among other eminent institutions.

In 2019, Dartmouth became a member of the Association of American Universities, a consortium of 65 of America’s leading research universities that help shape higher education policy and drive innovation. Dartmouth is also designated in the highly coveted R1 tier of the Carnegie Classification system, by virtue of its high research activity.

In 2024, former Dartmouth biological sciences professor and Geisel School of Medicine geneticist Victor Ambros won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for helping to discover microRNA.