Dartmouth Medical School was recently awarded $25,000 by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation to help support the medical school's new Urban Health Scholars Program. The program is intended to expand the medical school's ability to treat patients in under-served urban areas, predominantly those around Manchester, N.H., and Boston. "Urban scholars" are identified early in their training and then given the opportunity to work in various settings, including neighborhood clinics, shelters and community centers. The program, which began selecting scholars from first- and second-year medical classes last fall, is geared towards students who are interested in urban healthcare and multicultural health issues, according to the medical school's website.
A recent survey found that nearly one-fifth of New Hampshire residents have gambled in Connecticut within the last year. The survey, conducted by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis, also found that New Hampshire residents spent $73 million gambling in Connecticut's Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun casinos. According to the study, the majority of New Hampshire residents gambling in Connecticut were older than 30 years of age, and that 62 percent were women. The survey is part of an ongoing seven-part study of attitudes towards gambling in New England.
Many historians believe that when mathematician Leonhard Euler died over 200 years ago at the age of 76, he had composed 25 percent of the scientific work published in the 18th century. To commemorate his memory, Dartmouth graduate students Dominic Klyve and Lee Stemkoski created the Euler Archive four years ago, where graduate and undergraduate students post his original works online. This year, deemed the "year of Euler" in honor of the 300th anniversary of Euler's birth, the archive is being recognized by the Mathematical Association of America. This honor acknowledges the importance of the students' work, along with its popularity -- 20,000 people visit the site each month.
