With 52 U.S. patents granted in 2024, this recognition highlights Dartmouth’s growing impact in translating research into real-world solutions across medicine, engineering, and more.

Since 1787, Dartmouth has recognized its top faculty with named professorships. These appointments—traditionally supported through endowed gifts from alumni, family, and friends of the College—honor faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and service exemplify Dartmouth’s core mission.

Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health has established the 3D Scholars—a one-year certificate program, and it is is now accepting applications for the program starting in September of 2025—that equips physicians with an advanced understanding of the field to drive progress in medical device development.

Sponsored by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the American-Made EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP) challenges student teams to compete for cash prizes for successfully identifying a promising energy technology, assessing its market potential, and creating a business plan for commercialization. Faculty are challenged to create innovative implementation plans that expand energy technology commercialization.

Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer Eric Fossum was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation during a White House ceremony. The nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, he was awarded in recognition of his pioneering work in creating digital imaging sensors that power modern cameras, including the ones we carry around in our pockets everyday.

Dartmouth Technology Transfer Office experts joined the Dartmouth AI Conference to explore cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence and strategies to advance Dartmouth’s AI-enabled innovations for global impact. The Technology Transfer Office works with Dartmouth researchers to translate their groundbreaking AI research into real-world solutions, using innovative strategies to transfer intellectual property and find the best commercialization paths.