The Tuck School of Business will host its annual charity road race, Run For Kids, Monday morning in Hanover. The race will raise money for Upper Valley Child, David's House, and Children's Hospital, three Upper Valley charities that focus on the needs of children. Registration begins at 8 a.m. at Tuck circle with the race scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. The race will consists of a 10-kilometer run, a five-kilometer run/walk, and a one-kilometer run for children. Run For Kids has raised more than $150,000 over the past 23 years.
Abigail Rao and Andrea Russo, two students at Dartmouth Medical School, will spend one year conducting research for the National Institutes of Health. The two women were named 2007 Research Scholars as part of a program designed to encourage medical doctors to pursue careers in research. They are two of 42 selected by the program, which is sponsored by the NIH and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The program was created in the hopes of closing the divide between medical research and clinical research. Research Scholars gives medical students access to laboratories to conduct research and simultaneously brings the students to clinics so that they may gain first-hand clinical experience.
Two Dartmouth professors and one alumnus were recently elected to distinguished national academies. Tuck School of Business professor Kenneth French was selected as a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences while Dartmouth Medical School professor Victor Ambros and Stephen Pacala '78, a professor of biology at Princeton University, were appointed to the National Academy of Science. The American Academy of Arts and Science is designed to bring together prominent thinkers to engage in research on current social and political issues. The National Academy of Science is a private organization that advises the federal government on matters of science and technology. French is a professor of finance and is well-known for his research on investment and the stock market. Ambros is a professor of genetics who discovered, and has conducted research on, microRNA. Pacala is a professor of ecology at Princeton and has researched the interactions between biological communities and ecosystems.
