A 26-year-old man died Sept. 4 after the car he was riding in struck a guardrail and utility pole at the intersection of Greensboro and Etna Roads, about four miles from campus, according to a Hanover Police press release. Thetford, Vt. resident Warren Carpenter was ejected from the Dodge pickup as it rolled over after striking the pole and guardrail, fatally injuring him. The accident occurred when the vehicle's driver, Leo Bombaci of Fairlee, Vt., "failed to negotiate the turn" at the intersection, according to the press release, which also noted that "speed and alcohol were factors in the crash." Bombaci was arrested and will face felony charges in Lebanon District Court for driving under the influence. The case is still under investigation.
Yale University has begun talks to open an institution ofhigher learning in conjunction with the National University of Singapore, a venture that would establish one of Asia's first liberal arts colleges, the Yale Daily News reported Monday. Although Yale will appoint half of the new college's governing board, graduates from the Yale-NUS College will not receive Yale diplomas because Yale cannot guarantee that its own standards will be met at the new campus, Yale President Richard Levin told the Daily News. University administrators were initially concerned about a lack of academic freedom in Singapore a single-party state that does not guarantee free speech rights in its constitution but Yale and NUS agreed upon conditions under which faculty may teach freely, according to the Daily News. NUS will fully fund the college, which is tentatively scheduled to open in 2013.
Women now receive more doctoral degrees than men, according to an analysis released by the Council of Graduate Schools. Although the majority is a slight 50.4 percent, "the shift has been steady and significant," Inside Higher Ed reported. The male-female divide still exists in many disciplines, according to Inside Higher Ed, with women representing only 22 percent of engineering doctorates and 27 percent of mathematics and computer science doctorates. The changes are "a natural progression of what we have been seeing," CGS research and policy analysis director Nathan Bell told Inside Higher Ed, because women already lead in enrollments for associate, bachelor and master programs.
