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(04/12/24 9:20am)
Last month, Colin Van Ostern Tu’09 declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to represent New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District. If successful, Van Ostern will replace Rep. Annie Kuster ’78, who announced her retirement in March and endorsed Van Ostern — her former campaign manager — on Tuesday, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth.
(04/11/24 2:55pm)
Today, the College announced that it will award nine honorary degrees at the Class of 2024 commencement ceremony on June 9. The College will award three Doctors of Humane Letters, two Doctors of Laws, one Doctor of Letters and three Doctors of Science to individuals who have made significant contributions to athletics, the arts, law and the sciences.
(04/11/24 9:00am)
The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault planned a series of events for Sexual Assault Action Month, observed by the College each April since 2021. SAAM is an annual reminder of the ongoing issue of sexual violence in the College community and worldwide, sexual violence prevention director Amanda Childress wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth.
(04/11/24 9:05am)
On April 8, many community members experienced a total solar eclipse — an event that has not taken place in New Hampshire for 65 years, according to physics and astronomy professor Brian Chaboyer. Hanover itself saw 98.3% totality, meaning the moon only left 1.7% of the sun uncovered.
(04/09/24 9:05am)
On April 7, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its second weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body president Jessica Chiriboga ’24, the Senate spoke with Dartmouth Dining director Jon Plodzik and associate dean of student affairs Marco Valenzuela, who recommended changes to the Ivy Unlimited dining plan.
(04/09/24 9:00am)
On April 4, the philosophy department and the Neukom Institute for Computational Science hosted University of Oxford professor of jurisprudence Ruth Chang for an event titled, “Does AI Design Rest on a Mistake?” Chang spoke about the alignment problem of artificial intelligence and discussed a possible framework for orienting machine behavior more closely toward human values. The event took place in Haldeman Hall, and approximately 50 community members attended.
(04/08/24 9:05am)
Dartmouth hosted a series of events to honor famed poet Robert Frost’s 150th birthday, according to English and comparative literature professor Donald Pease. The poet matriculated with the Class of 1896 but left Dartmouth during his first term, according to the Dartmouth Libraries website.
(04/08/24 9:00am)
On March 23, Antônio Mello, a Ph.D student working in Dartmouth’s Social Perception Lab, published an article titled “Visualising facial distortions in prosopometamorphopsia” in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal. Prosopometamorphopsia is a rare psychoneurological disorder characterized by distorted perceptions of faces in terms of shape, size, texture or color. The Dartmouth sat down with Mello to discuss his groundbreaking research.
(04/05/24 9:05am)
Dartmouth Health and Geisel School of Medicine have received more than $8 million in federal funding since the beginning of the year, according to Dartmouth Health senior director of government relations Courtney Tanner.
(04/05/24 9:00am)
On April 3, the Dartmouth Dialogue Project launched a three-year partnership with StoryCorps One Small Step, a nonprofit that facilitates conversations between people across the political spectrum.
(04/04/24 9:00am)
This spring, physics professor Marcelo Gleiser is leading PHYS 82.01, “Question Reality!” for the first — and last — time in person. Gleiser said this is his last term teaching at the College.
(04/04/24 9:05am)
On March 25, College President Sian Leah Beilock announced a “renewed focus on middle-income families” in the financial aid process — made possible by the recently-announced Britt Scholarship, a bequest of more than $150 million dedicated to financial aid. The donation marks the largest scholarship gift in College history.
(04/02/24 10:55pm)
Graffiti was discovered on the Sphinx building — known colloquially as “the Tomb,” according to past reporting by The Dartmouth — today. The all-male group, located on East Wheelock Street, is Dartmouth’s oldest senior society. The Dartmouth has not yet confirmed the perpetrators nor the date of the incident.
(04/02/24 9:00am)
Following the College’s decision to reinstate the standardized testing requirement for applicants to the Class of 2029 and beyond, The Dartmouth conducted a survey on student reactions to the announcement.
(04/02/24 9:10am)
On March 28, the College admitted 1,005 students to the Class of 2028 through regular decision admissions. The new admits join the 606 students accepted through early decision and the 74 who matched with Dartmouth in December through QuestBridge, a national access program for high-achieving, low-income students.
(04/02/24 9:05am)
On March 31, the Dartmouth Student Government Senate met for its first weekly meeting of the spring term. Led by student body vice president Kiara Ortiz ’24, the Senate discussed College news, brainstormed ideas for spring initiatives and appointed new executives for the term.
(04/02/24 9:15am)
Nurses at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center are organizing to unionize, according to Service Employees International Union, Local 560 president Chris Peck. If organized, the union would negotiate for job security, healthcare and higher wages.
(04/01/24 9:05am)
On March 27, the Graduate Organized Laborers of Dartmouth-United Electrical Workers — the College’s graduate workers union — staged a walkout protest on the Green. According to Rendi Rogers, a GOLD-UE organizer and Ph.D student at the Geisel School of Medicine, the protestors decided to gather after the College failed to provide a counter-offer to their demands for higher compensation and other benefits by their March 7 deadline.
(04/01/24 9:00am)
For the first time since 2008, the Dartmouth Mock Trial team will compete in the national championship, program captain Kavya Nivarthy ’25 said. The national championship will take place at the University of Chicago on the weekend of April 19, according to the American Mock Trial Association website.
(03/29/24 9:00am)
Following the death of state Rep. Sharon Nordgren, D-Grafton 12, on Feb. 10, state legislators have begun the search to succeed the former 18-term incumbent. A race for the vacancy, which came after the March 15 deadline for local officials to hold a special election, will take place in November 2024.