The new Center for Community Action and Prevention, expected to open July 1, will introduce and redistribute new and preexisting resources for sexual assault prevention. A new center brings the challenge of transitioning to a new institutional structure for addressing sexual assault.
The war on terror is not a physical battleground but an idea, Georgetown University Law Center professor David Cole said at a Thursday lecture marking the College’s celebration of Law Day. Famed for his defense in Texas v. Johnson (1989), which declared the federal law against flag-burning unconstitutional, Cole discussed President Barack Obama’s ability to end the war.
The society currently consists of around 20 members of the Class of 2014 and was formally recognized by Greek Letter Organizations and Societies this January.
A new financial aid program set to launch this spring break will ease the cost of outdoor activities like spending a night at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge, renting a Dartmouth Outing Club cabin and hiking through the Grand Canyon.
The payroll office and the campus finance centers are implementing the employee time management system, which transfers all hourly paid campus staff and students to an electronic platform.
Though a Yahoo official once dismissed Reddit’s number of users as “a rounding error,” last year the website garnered about 731 million unique visitors and 56 billion page views. Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian asked the audience to take advantage of the immense accessibility of the Internet to learn skills and reach their full potential in a lecture that filled Filene Auditorium on Monday.
Work began this week on the Innovation Center and New Venture Incubator, an initiative announced in College President Phil Hanlon’s inaugural address in September. Despite delays in the construction permit approval process, the College aims to complete construction by spring term, new venture incubator programs director Jamie Coughlin said.
The event’s 113 athletes competed in showshoeing events as well as beginner, intermediate and advanced alpine skiing and snowboarding races.
Carefully constructed, technologically advanced balloons soar in the Antarctic sky, transmitting space weather updates to a team of scientists. For the past month, physics and astronomy professor Robyn Millan has lived on the southernmost continent, using instrument-laden balloons to gather data on radiation belts that impact space activity around the Earth.
While a PhD in computer science and a diploma in calligraphy and bookbinding may seem like an unconventional pairing, University of Washington professor David Levy ’71 discussed how the juxtaposition of the two disciplines can demonstrate the value of contemplation in a fast-paced world in a lecture Thursday evening.