Hot Plates, Hot Topics

Our Hot Plates series offers attendees a chance to enjoy a delicious lunch and a presentation by a knowledgeable speaker. Each session features a new speaker and topic. Past locations have included Jesse's Restaurant and Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon, NH. Scroll down for our upcoming sessions!

Every Hot Plates session follows a similar agenda.

Agenda:
11:45 AM: Check in and choose your meal
12:00 PM: Presentation
12:50 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Presentation resumes/Q&A

Choices for your meal:  
- Baked Haddock with organic brown rice
- Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad
- Steak & Cheese (Jesse's version of a Philly Cheese steak) with steakhouse fries
- Pesto Linguine

Your meal includes your choice of a fountain drink, coffee, iced tea, or lemonade.

Registration fees for these events are non-refundable. 

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William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth: A Life

Friday, February 27
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Jesse's Restaurant
Hanover, NH 03755

Register:
$38 per Osher at Dartmouth member
$48 per non-member
(price includes lecture and meal)

Have you ever wondered about the origin of “Dartmouth” in Dartmouth College? The college was named after William Legge, the 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, when it was created by Royal Charter issued by Governor John Wentworth in December 1769. This surprised Lord Dartmouth, as his name was used without permission and, worse, it was associated with a fraud. He was not amused and he never forgave. This talk will begin with an explanation of the college’s fraudulent beginning and then turn to the life and times of Lord Dartmouth. Topics to be covered include: a brief family history, including the origin of the aristocratic title; Lord Dartmouth’s education and Grand Tour of Europe with his stepbrother Frederick North (later Lord North, the Prime Minister “who lost America”); his marriage into money, which financed his philanthropy and London real estate development; his Low Church Anglicanism/Methodism; and his service as a senior British government official in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. 

Martin Jeffries has lived in West Lebanon since 2018 and has been a member of Osher at Dartmouth since 2021. A career polar scientist, he has taught Osher courses on the Arctic and Antarctica, but prefers to develop courses on topics outside his professional expertise. His favourite topics are the Industrial Revolution, textile manufacturing, and workforce housing in New England and (Old) England. Now retired, he enjoys the rail trails, creating a pollinator-friendly garden of native plants, and exploring New England to gather ideas and material for future Osher courses. 

 

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From Lab to Market, Bench to Bedside

Thursday, April 2
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Jesse's Restaurant
Hanover, NH 03755

REGISTER:
$38 per Osher at Dartmouth member
$48 per non-member
(price includes lecture and meal)

What do cell phone cameras, Gatorade, 3D printers, blood thinners, and Google have in common? They all originated in academic research. How did these innovations get from university labs to our everyday lives? How is today’s political and economic climate—marked by the current administration’s heightened scrutiny of federal university research funding—affecting the pipeline from lab to market? Join us to hear about groundbreaking discoveries that originated in our backyard and get a behind-the-scenes look at the skunkworks that turn research into innovations that impact all of us. 

Kim Rosenfield joined the Dartmouth Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer in 2017, and in 2020 she became Director of Technology Transfer for Dartmouth and D-H. She has over 35 years of business, legal, and entrepreneurial experience in academia, industry, and as a partner in major law firms. She helped found and manage several start-up companies and worked in-house as General Counsel in publicly-traded companies. Before joining Dartmouth, Kim worked in the Technology Licensing Office at MIT, at Partners Healthcare (now Mass General/Brigham), the SUNY Research Foundation, and the UAB Research Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama. Kim is passionate about helping researchers translate their ideas into innovations that impact society. She also avidly supports the arts and was founding Board Chair of Camille A. Brown & Dancers, an award-winning NYC dance company, and is active in promoting voting rights. Kim graduated from Yale and the University of Virginia Law School.