Modine Manufacturing Company, a producer of thermal management systems for industrial and vehicular applications, recently announced the appointment of Charles Cooley Tu'83 to its Board of Directors. Cooley, who received his B.A. from Yale University, is currently Chief Financial Offier of the Lubrizol Corporation, a chemical company. He is also employed by the American oil manufacturer Atlantic Richfield Company and was a former assistant secretary with the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company.
"[Cooley's] depth and breadth of financial experience leading organizations in today's highly competitive international environment will provide valuable insight and perspective that will be a great help to the Modine Board as we work with Modine's management team to drive improved financial performance," said Michael Yonker, Chair of Modine's Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.
Computer science professor Hany Farid recently discussed image manipulation in the media and popular culture in an appearance on CBS' The Early Show. Farid, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1999, discussed the technological and psychological basis for altering pictures to hide individuals' imperfections or to add a specific effect. She invented software that can recognize whether or not an image has been manipulated by detecting inconsistencies in lighting.
"A lot of people who do Match.com send me photographs," Farid told CBS. "They're about to meet somebody and I can tell you the vast majority of images on dating sites have been at least manipulated in some way."
American university students are not well versed in U.S. history and government, according to a survey conducted by the University of Connecticut on behalf of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. The organization says its purpose "is to convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society." Freshmen scored an average of 52 percent while seniors scored an average of 53 percent. The survey also concluded that the price of attending college has no correlation with a student's civic awareness. Dartmouth ranked 34th in the survey, ahead of Yale University, Brown University and Cornell University.